tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88371762375370428782024-03-16T14:52:30.411-04:00Tim Gamble"Rebellion To Tyrants Is Obedience To God" -- Benjamin FranklinUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger571125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8837176237537042878.post-69558640211651197062024-03-04T07:00:00.001-05:002024-03-04T07:00:00.243-05:00Mentally ill, physically ill, out-of-shape, unarmed, unhappy, self-loathing, self-censoring, and without hope<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><b>By Tim Gamble <br /></b></span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Join the Resistance! Subscribe by email (</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="https://follow.it/tim-gamble?action=followPub" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">click this link</a></b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">)</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Note: </b>I posted this article back in August of last year, but it bears repeating. </span></i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;"><b>August 2023 - </b>A couple of days ago, an account named @Illuminatibot made a very interesting, and </span><span style="color: #222222;">accurate</span><span style="color: #222222;">, post on Twitter: "<i>They want you to be godless, sexless, genderless, childless, depressed, anxious, afraid, fat, drug addicted, lonely physically weak, mentally weak, in debt, isolated, living in a pod, eating bugs, and dependent on the state for everything.</i>"</span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8pQheqMfg-0MTKfSqpRGd9IeziZcQl3vna30YHTGO1UA5p3WAgO-YMsd45dkGBe5hP2VKNbsu8--aiZSKjzt_fcdPURqqVZBNL8aZid_PTWZl6e6nqw6C5mC-eM3J9bis4yIT7sUke8y19dyKshWyc7xpek4P7HyhVezSPeMiWbIhQlQGnOu3El3Oc_Y/s664/ca014fb2dd4c0650.jpeg" style="clear: left; color: #29aae1; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="571" data-original-width="664" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8pQheqMfg-0MTKfSqpRGd9IeziZcQl3vna30YHTGO1UA5p3WAgO-YMsd45dkGBe5hP2VKNbsu8--aiZSKjzt_fcdPURqqVZBNL8aZid_PTWZl6e6nqw6C5mC-eM3J9bis4yIT7sUke8y19dyKshWyc7xpek4P7HyhVezSPeMiWbIhQlQGnOu3El3Oc_Y/w320-h275/ca014fb2dd4c0650.jpeg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div>To that list, I would add: They want you mentally ill, physically ill, out-of-shape, unarmed, unhappy, self-loathing, self-censoring, and without hope. Arguably, they have been working towards these ends since at least the 1960s, if not before?</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Why? It is simple, really. The weaker we are - physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually - the easier we are to manipulate and control. The less trust and hope we have in ourselves, our families, our God, and our traditional values, the more we will turn to them for guidance and help. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The want us utterly dependent on the State for everything. They want us to blindly follow their approved experts, no matter what they say. They want us to become willing slaves of the State, trusting only in them. They want blind loyalty, with no competition from family ties, religious beliefs, traditions, or even commonsense. They want us to fear, loathe, and even hate those who think differently and are not willing to be slaves. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;">How do we resist? It is </span><span style="color: #222222;">simple</span><span style="color: #222222;">, really. Don't be those things they want you to be. Work hard to become physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually strong. Don't fall for their indoctrination. Lose weight. Start working out. Get out of debt. Build savings. Reconnect with family and friends. Make new connections. Overcome your addictions. Read the Bible. Pray. Become self-reliant. Think for yourself. Seek ways to get out of the worldly system. Seek to build alternative systems. </span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Simple. But not easy. It will be hard work. But if you value your life and your freedom, you must be willing to do the hard work. Or you can just sit on your couch, take it easy, watch some Netflix, eat some ice cream, and wait for the next DNA-altering vaccine to be mandated. The choice is yours. </span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">-------------------------------</span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div><a href="https://amzn.to/3cx7hD6" style="clear: left; color: #1118cc; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="225" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs5JB_44NKiHjsRn4J6d3kH20J5THG5WUWT7gwE3Vd6SGpjn_uzUuciyYcHjQp-Iax9sEp-nyn6yMz-ofitbartHZbXisPH4GWC-XCLxeYtoTMfGfW73yZHOrb-KuwJdTnukQiYklAqPIy1zr_v2IOUy-d4AOj48zmZDaMAZuInno6D9CUspCamilS/w130-h200/51R+MxHcP2L._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="130" /></a></div><div style="color: #222222;"><div><b>Ad: <a href="https://amzn.to/3cx7hD6" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Survivalist Family: Prepared Americans for a Strong America</a></b>, by Pastor Joe Fox (aka Viking Preparedness), is a great guide to beginner and intermediate preparedness and survival for both short-term disasters and long-term emergencies. <b>Highly recommended!!! </b></div></div></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8837176237537042878.post-48982233445058468952024-03-03T07:00:00.004-05:002024-03-03T07:00:00.139-05:00Quick Reminder - First Aid Kits and Medical Supplies<div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">By Tim Gamble</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;">All my links: </span><b><a href="https://linktr.ee/timgamble" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://linktr.ee/timgamble</span></a></b></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;">This website is </span><span style="color: #222222;">affiliated</span><span style="color: #222222;"> with</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://www.refugemedical.com/?sca_ref=3918033.4ftvoHMdig" style="color: #1a00ff;" target="_blank"><b>Refuge Medical and Refuge Training</b></a>. 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Most of you are are probably aware of Google's AI disaster earlier this week. The best analysis of the situation that I've seen so far is this short video (less than 7-minutes) by </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">Vivek Ramaswamy. It is well worth watching, as it points to the very real and very dangerous intersection of Artificial Intelligence, bias, and political ideology. </span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Google's Gemini Catastrophe: Wake-Up Call for Woke Tech?</b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FCka8PrR2o8?si=gz6jWJoQUn33Nngg" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="color: #222222;"><b>Books by </b></span></span><span style="color: #222222;">Vivek Ramaswamy:</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://amzn.to/3wDzwNW" target="_blank">Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam</a></b></span></li><li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://amzn.to/42XjoD0" target="_blank">Capitalist Punishment: How Wall Street Is Using Your Money to Create a Country You Didn't Vote For</a></b></span></li><li><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://amzn.to/48BAh7a" target="_blank">Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence</a></b></span></li></ul></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: medium;"><b>See Also: </b></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: medium;">You may also be interested in a somewhat related article I wrote in 2022: </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.timgamble.com/2022/01/technocracy-power-elite-and.html" target="_blank">Technocracy, The Power Elite, and the Transformation of Human Civilization</a></b>. </span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">______________________</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Join the Resistance!</b> Subscribe by email for free to Tim Gamble <a href="https://follow.it/tim-gamble?action=followPub" style="color: #1118cc; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">by clicking here</a>. </span><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://follow.it/tim-gamble?action=followPub" style="color: #1118cc; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="50" data-original-width="212" height="47" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--NOJ7cFAfU4/YYlB7xoZ9_I/AAAAAAAAHoc/WszKLVFzzaIlf0-lwomJ6g8h_woMYii9ACLcBGAsYHQ/w200-h47/13.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; 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color: #333333;"><span style="color: #222222;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>I originally wrote this essay in 2019. I think it bears repeating from time-to-time.</i><b> </b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="color: #222222;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;"><b>12 Life Lessons for Patriots, Preppers, and Everyone Else</b></span><br /></span><ol style="color: #333333;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Take responsibility for your own life.</b> A big part of this is learning to be self-reliant, not waiting around for your parents, your teachers, your boss, your friends, or even the government to tell you what to do, or to do things for you. You are responsible for your own life. Even when bad things beyond your control happen to you, you are still in control of how you respond. Your life, your responsibility. <i><br /></i></span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Be honest. </b>In the short run, it may mean some pain, but honesty is truly the best policy in the long run. Lies have a way of making things worse, and usually get discovered eventually. Also, always keep your word. And never cheat people. Develop a reputation for honesty, integrity and good character. <i><br /></i></span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Life is unpredictable, so be adaptable.</b> Life is full of surprises and unexpected events, tragedies, and opportunities. Developing your adaptability is the best way to deal with the unexpected. <i><br /></i></span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Get married early and stay married. </b>This runs counter to modern advice, which says to put off marriage until you "grow up", build a career, mature and know what you want out of life. But in reality the opposite in true. Married people, especially married men, mature faster, are more responsible, work harder, and are more ambitious than their single peers. Married people tend to be happier, healthier, and live longer than single people. <i><br /></i></span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Who you know is often more important than what you know.</b> It can be hard for modern, highly individualistic Americans to admit, but we all need people. Life is not a solo sport. Lone wolves rarely do well in the long run. Shelve your ego. Meet people. Make friends. Network. Build community. Be a part of other people's lives, and let other people be a part of your life. This will pay many, many benefits throughout your life. <i><br /></i></span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Don't compare yourself to other people.</b> Instead compare your current self with your younger self, and always try to improve on that younger self. This will be both emotionally healthier and more effective than comparing yourself to others. Always be improving over your former self.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Take care of your health. </b>Your health and fitness is immeasurably important to your life, success, happiness, well-being, and preparedness. Your physical health, along with your spiritual health, will determine your future more than anything else. <i><br /></i></span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Avoid debt. Spend less than you make.</b> Sound advice, but how many of us really follow it? Not many, apparently, since credit card debt is at an all-time high and personal bankruptcies are surging. <i><br /></i></span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Be a builder, not a consumer. </b>Modern civilization is set up to make you into a consumer. Corporations and the government need you to spend as much money as possible. This is good for them, bad for you. Be a builder instead. Build savings. Build a business. Build a homestead. Build a family and a life. Sure, you have to buy stuff along the way, but be smart about what you buy. Don't mindlessly consume, no matter what Uncle Sam and his puppet masters in big business want you to do...</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Go for quality over quantity. </b>The one with the most toys when they die, still dies. Life isn't about accumulating stuff. Preparedness isn't about accumulating stuff, either. Be more intentional about the way you live your life. Quality beats quantity. In preparedness, the temptation is to buy everything at once, but money is always a factor and many folks end up buying cheap gear they can't depend on this way. Buy a little at a time so you can afford better, more dependable gear.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Take care of your stuff.</b> Sure, it costs money to change your car's oil every three months, but it costs a lot more to replace a blown engine. Taking care of your stuff pays big dividends over the long run. <i><br /></i></span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Develop your relationship with God.</b> This should be the number one priority of your life. Not your career. Not your spouse or your children. Not your reputation or your bank account. Take care to develop this, and all else will turn out okay. Make prayer and Bible reading a daily habit. <i><br /></i></span></li></ol><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">These are the lessons I've learned in my life, usually the hard way. Had someone given me this list when I graduated high school, and I actually followed it, I would have avoided many of my mistakes, and would be in a much better position in my life than I currently am.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">---------------------</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/433FEv7" style="clear: left; color: #29aae1; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJOlwhXpFYpnBlv3mEenSoban0bOm0MatGQrRNnXsmxifTmwF1QsoLwjkuENIg17sDfvpQvHA_tqD6YpwSsNnJavyDQg3hVACYBYW3qOWNRMpINOp-irdvIGp-gpjInRnfFBcs08MnL3vTmq9OGnpawJKrrUeyvHOjHTReO0xddFwDe0wE82bJ6oxeEqk/w200-h200/81ZDK1ZMgNL._SL1500_.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="200" /></a></div>Ad: </b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><a href="https://amzn.to/433FEv7" style="color: #29aae1; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Venison Jerky Meat Snack Sticks</span></b></a> - A Zero Sugar, Gluten Free, Nitrate Free, Low Carb healthy snack (one of my favorites). Perfect for the Paleo Diet, Keto Diet, Whole 30 Diet, Atkins Diet, and Low-Carb Diets. The animals are grass-fed and never given hormones or antibiotics. </span></span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8837176237537042878.post-32545282436084891172024-02-28T07:00:00.002-05:002024-02-28T07:00:00.131-05:00Radical Actions: Spread Constitutional Literacy<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">By Tim Gamble</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;">Join the Resistance! Subscribe by email (</span><b style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://follow.it/tim-gamble?action=followPub" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">click this link</a></b><span style="color: #222222;">)</span> </span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span></span><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/2OgaatY" style="clear: left; color: #29aae1; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img alt="https://amzn.to/2OgaatY" border="0" data-original-height="265" data-original-width="127" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivPtE-IT3OLLoqTegKeHD6L_UhpQp8bqL2irT3KunZnBkF70f2HkkymFUZ0aSa3aIms5gjl-ZFnZ77TS-LHsDludem3CYrTvhRmgGRmavGeQzEmgV-x3ty3CMiKtgPACkxdOtrKPV0mtg/w96-h200/411bRuMGCKL._SX236_BO1%252C204%252C203%252C200_.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="96" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Here is a radical idea in today's world: <b>Spread Constitutional Literacy</b> by giving away pocket copies of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. It's an idea that I've been promoting (and doing) for many years. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Pocket Constitutions are <a href="https://amzn.to/2OgaatY" style="color: #29aae1; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">available from Amazon</span></b></a> (the one pictured here is currently $1.50 each with free shipping for both prime members or when ordering 24 or more). You may also be able to order pocket Constitutions from various political and educational organizations that occasionally offer them for sale. I am an Amazon Affiliate, so ordering them through my links to Amazon will help to support this site in a small way (at no extra cost to you). </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Pocket Constitutions make great giveaways for:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /></span><ul style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 1.4; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Back-to-School </span></li><li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">History and Social Studies Classes</span></li><li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Halloween Trick-or-Treat</span></li><li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Spring and Fall Festivals</span></li><li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Campaign Events and Political Rallies</span></li><li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Business Events and Promotions</span></li><li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Homeschoolers</span></li><li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Scout Troops</span></li><li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Churches and Sunday School Classes</span></li><li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Bible Study and Prayer Groups</span></li><li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Clubs and Civic Organizations</span></li><li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">"Little Free Libraries" (those boxes in many neighborhoods)</span></li></ul><div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">______________________</span></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Join the Resistance!</b> Subscribe to Tim Gamble <a href="https://follow.it/tim-gamble?action=followPub" style="color: #1118cc; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">by clicking here</a>. 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background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cf202d; margin: 0px; outline: medium; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Gun Owners of America</a><span style="color: #303030;"> (GOA) is excited to </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFpAsNGwLd0&feature=youtu.be" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cf202d; margin: 0px; outline: medium; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">announce their inaugural Gun Owners Advocacy and Leadership Summit</a><span style="color: #303030;"> (GOALS), which will be held in mid-August in Knoxville, Tennessee.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #303030;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #303030; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.36em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This two-day weekend event is expected to draw tens of thousands of attendees and will feature speeches from leaders in the gun rights movement, educational panels, meet and greet sessions, and musical performances from major artists. Additionally, the convention’s festivities will kick off on Friday August 16th with an exclusive industry expo for manufacturers, retailers, and other firearms businesses.</span></p></div><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #303030; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.36em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">GOA is also excited to share that all attendees will be able to lawfully carry while in attendance.</span></p></div><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #303030; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.36em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Erich Pratt, GOA’s Senior Vice President, issued the following statement: </span></span></p></div><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #303030; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.36em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“With gun owners, manufacturers, and dealers facing ever growing pressure and outright hostility from so many anti-gun forces today, this election is without a doubt going to be the most critical in history for Second Amendment rights. </span></em></p></div><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #303030; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.36em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“With that in mind, our goal is to make this the premiere event bringing together Second Amendment enthusiasts and advocates as we prepare for the political fight of our lives this November. I can’t wait to reveal more details as we lock in speakers and other guests of honor.” </span></em></p></div><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #303030; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.36em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Kailey Nieman, GOA’s Director of Development, added: </span></span></p></div><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #303030; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.36em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“We’re thrilled to be putting on this event for our valued members and strategic industry partners. Between the educational panels and keynote speakers, the invigorating musical performances, and our large industry expo, this will be a can’t miss Second Amendment celebration. </span></em></p></div><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #303030; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.36em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“Our greater GOA community is battle tested and laser focused on our no-compromise mission, and attendees can expect to leave G.O.A.L.S. energized and ready to make an impact on the serious challenges facing our Second Amendment. This conference will be a major springboard for our organization and the greater community as we head into November.” </span></em></p></div><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #303030; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.36em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Admission to the summit will be free for GOA members, and those interested in joining GOA or confirming their membership is up to date can do so <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://link.mediaoutreach.meltwater.com/ls/click?upn%3DOz1UWiqUWrBKcxGldJMlGLkkTVwr-2B3DjtSi7kiLIEMiP-2FqMRWuTbWqY0yWPRwefAZGUn_Y-2FFuWc4FNaAt4FpY8ZU698t4n33JjJiCicgabaZvAOCB-2FKDIiIZN543nOLmMlDg1paDEG9JZdRCFcBh2G9yBNgP-2Fstp6u3M2Kgp9TRMQYV-2BYhI8t01s56Ohh41FUIZVPJazghDUbIhYZpKCI0rD0P3i0ueTH7UriXRNHECyGEENiJUNohTdDcG5wv18ykfeoJrdKUVtXWUt7UQmiSfZtP1j55NG43O2OUo1M-2FhQ5ViY2fpRVz2ANtk6KGC3HAU40WYQLDSnOEAkEPFUZKYKwmtzmopZeH8SHZ2-2B-2FR2729ZVlWDvf6nBOCg8Euo2qGqe919Hk9IvfOE29-2FKMEL5-2B-2Fu0ayLXmoL-2BZGsFgeUH77B3TIIZ3sz6u7GIPMdzc5ZI-2Fl&source=gmail&ust=1708722294451000&usg=AOvVaw0Ea9KXspjLEBL0ZPtBudr5" href="https://link.mediaoutreach.meltwater.com/ls/click?upn=Oz1UWiqUWrBKcxGldJMlGLkkTVwr-2B3DjtSi7kiLIEMiP-2FqMRWuTbWqY0yWPRwefAZGUn_Y-2FFuWc4FNaAt4FpY8ZU698t4n33JjJiCicgabaZvAOCB-2FKDIiIZN543nOLmMlDg1paDEG9JZdRCFcBh2G9yBNgP-2Fstp6u3M2Kgp9TRMQYV-2BYhI8t01s56Ohh41FUIZVPJazghDUbIhYZpKCI0rD0P3i0ueTH7UriXRNHECyGEENiJUNohTdDcG5wv18ykfeoJrdKUVtXWUt7UQmiSfZtP1j55NG43O2OUo1M-2FhQ5ViY2fpRVz2ANtk6KGC3HAU40WYQLDSnOEAkEPFUZKYKwmtzmopZeH8SHZ2-2B-2FR2729ZVlWDvf6nBOCg8Euo2qGqe919Hk9IvfOE29-2FKMEL5-2B-2Fu0ayLXmoL-2BZGsFgeUH77B3TIIZ3sz6u7GIPMdzc5ZI-2Fl" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cf202d; margin: 0px; outline: medium; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></p></div><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #303030; margin: 0px 0px 1.36em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Companies interested in attending the industry expo can learn more <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://link.mediaoutreach.meltwater.com/ls/click?upn%3DOz1UWiqUWrBKcxGldJMlGLkkTVwr-2B3DjtSi7kiLIEMiP-2FqMRWuTbWqY0yWPRwefASX2u_Y-2FFuWc4FNaAt4FpY8ZU698t4n33JjJiCicgabaZvAOCB-2FKDIiIZN543nOLmMlDg1paDEG9JZdRCFcBh2G9yBNgP-2Fstp6u3M2Kgp9TRMQYV-2BYhI8t01s56Ohh41FUIZVPJazghDUbIhYZpKCI0rD0P3i0ueTH7UriXRNHECyGEENiJUNohTdDcG5wv18ykfeoJrdKUVtXWUt7UQmiSfZtP2fgvaF7RfRwmDDAeEffg7BNOlejphq5p8TinqBTTIJDWnEwVW-2F-2BUvtWi68DoS0co5uY8ElpOtdHzT0JFBH89R0eHPXLJrZYPSYPhv0MydSwx-2B2WslIowoxVc1SkIKEuZzfYTeMzM17a34spe5-2F8pfL-2B0EdBByMR6oURyaNtpa2A&source=gmail&ust=1708722294452000&usg=AOvVaw2C56IpoVyaLywVBr9IXbPI" href="https://link.mediaoutreach.meltwater.com/ls/click?upn=Oz1UWiqUWrBKcxGldJMlGLkkTVwr-2B3DjtSi7kiLIEMiP-2FqMRWuTbWqY0yWPRwefASX2u_Y-2FFuWc4FNaAt4FpY8ZU698t4n33JjJiCicgabaZvAOCB-2FKDIiIZN543nOLmMlDg1paDEG9JZdRCFcBh2G9yBNgP-2Fstp6u3M2Kgp9TRMQYV-2BYhI8t01s56Ohh41FUIZVPJazghDUbIhYZpKCI0rD0P3i0ueTH7UriXRNHECyGEENiJUNohTdDcG5wv18ykfeoJrdKUVtXWUt7UQmiSfZtP2fgvaF7RfRwmDDAeEffg7BNOlejphq5p8TinqBTTIJDWnEwVW-2F-2BUvtWi68DoS0co5uY8ElpOtdHzT0JFBH89R0eHPXLJrZYPSYPhv0MydSwx-2B2WslIowoxVc1SkIKEuZzfYTeMzM17a34spe5-2F8pfL-2B0EdBByMR6oURyaNtpa2A" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #cf202d; margin: 0px; outline: medium; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></p><div style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #303030; margin: 0px 0px 1.36em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Source: </b>Gun Owners of America Press Release</span></div><div style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.36em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">---------------------</span></div><div><div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #333333;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/433FEv7" style="clear: left; color: #29aae1; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJOlwhXpFYpnBlv3mEenSoban0bOm0MatGQrRNnXsmxifTmwF1QsoLwjkuENIg17sDfvpQvHA_tqD6YpwSsNnJavyDQg3hVACYBYW3qOWNRMpINOp-irdvIGp-gpjInRnfFBcs08MnL3vTmq9OGnpawJKrrUeyvHOjHTReO0xddFwDe0wE82bJ6oxeEqk/w200-h200/81ZDK1ZMgNL._SL1500_.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="200" /></a></div>Ad: </b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><a href="https://amzn.to/433FEv7" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Venison Jerky Meat Snack Sticks</span></b></a><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;">- A Zero Sugar, Gluten Free, Nitrate Free, Low Carb healthy snack (one of my favorites). Perfect for the Paleo Diet, Keto Diet, Whole 30 Diet, Atkins Diet, and Low-Carb Diets. The animals are grass-fed and never given hormones or antibiotics.</span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8837176237537042878.post-67779704458139879772024-02-27T07:30:00.001-05:002024-02-27T07:30:00.135-05:00Will You Listen? <div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">By Tim Gamble</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;">Join the Resistance! Subscribe by email (</span><b style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://follow.it/tim-gamble?action=followPub" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">click this link</a></b><span style="color: #222222;">)</span> </span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><i>I've heard the following story many times over the years, with slight variations each time. </i></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">God, the Old Man, and the River</span></b></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">There was an old man who lived in a small town near a river. The old man was a Christian. He went to church every Sunday, and he prayed and read the Bible everyday. He was a good man, and well liked in his community.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">It had been a particularly wet winter, and the spring was no different. The river that ran by the small town that the old man lived in was quite full. In fact, the only reason the river had not yet flooded was the presence of a large dam a hundred miles up river from the small town. The dam was successfully regulating the river for now, but was finally at full capacity.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The old man was watching TV one evening when he heard the bad news. The dam was beginning to fail. If the rain didn't stop soon, the small town where the old man lived was sure to flood. The weatherman came on and said that the forecast was for more heavy storms. The old man prayed "Lord, keep this town and me safe. I place my trust in you to handle this situation."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The rains were heavy the next morning when the old man woke up. He turned on the radio to listen to his favorite Christian music station. The radio announcer was giving a dire warning. The dam had failed. The river was flooding. People in the small town were being told to evacuate immediately. The old man prayed "Lord, keep this town and me safe. I place my trust in you to handle this situation."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The river began to rise. Streets in sections of the small town nearest the river were flooded. People were leaving as fast as they could. A knock came on the old man's front door. It was his neighbor checking up on the old man and asking him if he needed a ride out of town. The old man said "no." After his neighbor left, the old man prayed "Lord, keep this town and me safe. I place my trust in you to handle this situation."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Later that afternoon, the flood waters reached the old man's neighborhood. It quickly flooded the streets, and eventually became high enough to flood out the first floor of the old man's house. The old man retreated to the second floor of his house. He heard a commotion outside. It was some rescue workers in a boat searching for people who were trapped by the rising flood. They waved at him and brought the boat near the old man's bedroom window. They shouted at him to open the window, and they would get him into the boat and to safety. The old man simply shook his head. He would place his trust in the Lord. If it was His will, He would save him.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Finally, the boat had to move away from the old man's house. Soon after, the house, damaged by the flood, collapsed. The old man drowned.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The old man went to heaven. He was happy, but something concerned him. He asked the Lord, "Why did you not save me when I placed my trust in you?"</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">The Lord smiled patiently at the old man. "I sent you the news report to warn you the day before the flood. I sent you the radio announcement that you should flee to higher ground on the morning of the flood. I sent your neighbor to offer you a ride out of town when it was still possible to drive to safety. I sent the boat of rescue workers to save you minutes before your house would collapse."</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">------------------<br /></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2h6IWci" style="clear: left; color: #29aae1; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img alt="http://amzn.to/2h6IWci" border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="500" height="170" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-59WDMMWGH1I/W8uJChwjtUI/AAAAAAAAFL0/IDrAmtQy3oY5goQhyZUrtOekZTg2BpemQCLcBGAs/s200/51la16CkqYL.jpg" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2h6IWci" style="color: #29aae1; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Kaito KA500 Emergency Radio</span></b></a>. This one has is all: AM/FM/SW/NOAA (weather alert) bands; powered five ways (electrical cord, USB port, AA batteries, solar, and hand-crank); plus flashlight, reading lamp, and cellphone charger.</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8837176237537042878.post-59038974052956955822024-02-26T07:30:00.001-05:002024-02-26T07:30:00.135-05:00Your Reputation Matters<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">By Tim Gamble</span></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;">Join the Resistance! Subscribe by email (</span><b style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://follow.it/tim-gamble?action=followPub" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">click this link</a></b><span style="color: #222222;">)</span> </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Are you concerned with your reputation and that of your family? Does integrity, honesty, and fairness mark your dealings with other people? Or do you smirk at such notions as being naive? <br /><br />I suggest that, far from naive, your reputation will determine your future.<br /><br />Within the prepping, survival, and resistance communities, we talk a lot about food, water and other stuff we need to survive. We talk about knowledge and skills we need to survive. We even talk about the attitude we need to survive. All that is important. But there is one thing that is also important that I rarely, if ever, hear talked about: <b>the importance of our reputation to our survival</b>.<br /><br />When I say "reputation," I don't don't mean what others think<i> of </i>us, but rather what they think <i>about</i> us. After all, we shouldn't care about what others think of us (except for God and maybe our spouse). But what others think about us, <i>our reputation</i>, does matter. <br /><br /><b>The difference is important.</b><br /><br />What others think of us is based on their feelings, and those feelings may have nothing to do with us. If someone doesn't like me because I am a committed follower of Jesus, for example, their dislike of me is based in their feelings about religion or the Bible, not me. I have no control over that, and therefore shouldn't worry if they like me or not. <br /><br />On the other hand, our reputations are grounded in what we do and say, and we do have control over that. So, if someone doesn't like me because I once cheated them in a business deal, then their dislike for me is based on my actions, not their feelings. I have earned a bad reputation.<br /><b><br /></b><b>Our reputations are important before a disaster. </b> <br /><br />Our reputation<b>,</b> that we have earned through our words and actions, does have a lot to do with our success, or lack thereof, in life. It will affect our business dealings, our career, our personal relationships, and most other areas of our life. Ultimately, it will affect the opportunities we have, the money we make, and more importantly the kind of people we have in our lives. These things, in turn, can have a large impact in what preparations we can make for the future. Finally, our reputation will definitely impact our ability to form tribe or community.<br /><br /><b>Our reputations are important during a disaster.</b> <br /><br />Imagine a grid-down scenario - let's say after an EMP event. We will be trying to survive in a chaotic world filled with other people. Our reputation will affect the willingness of others to trust us, to help us, and to cooperate with us. Will our neighbors see us as good folk, trustworthy enough to barter with or even to cooperate with for mutual security and assistance? Or will they see us a untrustworthy, even dangerous, and to be avoided?<br /><br /><b>Our reputations are important after a disaster. </b> <br /><br />At some point the disaster will be over. Law and order will once again be established. A government or some sort of authority will form. And we will be held accountable for our actions during the disaster. Our reputations that we earned during the disaster will affect our place in the newly established society.<br /><br /><b>Am I being naive?</b><br /><br />Some preppers and survivalists like to brag about the lengths they will go to survive. Some even claim to be willing to do terrible things such as shoot innocent people because they may potentially become a threat at some point, or even to just steal their stuff. They sneer at anyone objecting to their lack of morality, accusing us of being naive, and even weak. <br /><br />I don't think so. In fact, I suggest that they are the ones being naive in thinking that their behavior during the crisis will not have consequences at some point as things begin to calm down. The fact is our actions – good, bad, or indifferent – do have consequences, both immediate and in the future. <br /><br /><b>What reputation do we want to have?</b> <br /><br />I'll answer that question for myself: I strive for a reputation of integrity, fidelity, competence, and strength. <br /><br /> <b>Integrity.</b> More than just honesty, although that is an important part of it, integrity is the unwavering adherence to a moral code. I want people to know that they can trust me to be honest, and that I will always strive to do the right thing.<br /><br /><b> Fidelity.</b> More than just loyalty, although that is an important part of it, fidelity is faithfulness - living up to your obligations and duties. I want people to know that I will keep my word, that I will always do what I say, and they I am dependable and reliable. <br /><br /><b> Competence. </b>Competence is having the knowledge, skills, ability, judgment, and wisdom to be effective in all aspects of life. I want people to know that not only do I intend to live up to my word and obligations, but that I also have the ability to do so.<br /><br /><b> Strength. </b>Physical strength, as well as arms and armament, can be a part of this, but by strength I am especially referring to is <i>strength of character</i>, as well as to <i>drive and determination</i>. I want people to know not only do I intend to live up to my word and obligations, and have the ability to do so, but I also have the strength and determination to accomplish my purposes.<br /><br />From a survivalist point-of-view, having a reputation for the first three should make people want me on their side - promoting cooperation, community, and assistance. A reputation for the last should make me a less interesting target for the bad guys, or others hoping to take advantage of me, my family, and my tribe.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Reputation Matters. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">---------------------</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #333333;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/433FEv7" style="clear: left; color: #29aae1; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJOlwhXpFYpnBlv3mEenSoban0bOm0MatGQrRNnXsmxifTmwF1QsoLwjkuENIg17sDfvpQvHA_tqD6YpwSsNnJavyDQg3hVACYBYW3qOWNRMpINOp-irdvIGp-gpjInRnfFBcs08MnL3vTmq9OGnpawJKrrUeyvHOjHTReO0xddFwDe0wE82bJ6oxeEqk/w200-h200/81ZDK1ZMgNL._SL1500_.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="200" /></a></div>Ad: </b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://amzn.to/433FEv7" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b>Venison Jerky Meat Snack Sticks</b></a> </span><span style="color: #333333;">- A Zero Sugar, Gluten Free, Nitrate Free, Low Carb healthy snack (one of my favorites). Perfect for the Paleo Diet, Keto Diet, Whole 30 Diet, Atkins Diet, and Low-Carb Diets. The animals are grass-fed and never given hormones or antibiotics. </span></span></span></span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8837176237537042878.post-46218810938181750632024-02-25T12:30:00.001-05:002024-02-25T12:30:00.129-05:00College Is No Longer A Measure of Success<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">By Tim Gamble</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;">Join the Resistance! Subscribe by email (</span><b style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://follow.it/tim-gamble?action=followPub" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">click this link</a></b><span style="color: #222222;">)</span> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">For several generations now, college has been considered absolutely essential to success in America. That is no longer true, as many people have pointed out in recent years. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">As political correctness and woke ideologies have taken control of college campuses, academic standards have drastically inclined. A college degree is no longer as impressive today as it was 25 or 30 years ago. Something many employers have figured out. Even degrees from so-called Elite schools such as Harvard are no longer the guarantor of success they once were. Worse, this sharp decline in the value of a college education has coincided with a staggering increase in the cost of getting that declining education. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>College is no longer a good idea for many people.</b> Many folks will be more successful without college. It is a shocking statement, but true, in my opinion. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">"If you want to get ahead in life, you have to go to college" is old advice that is no longer valid. It is simply is not worth going into tens of thousands of dollars of debt to get a degree in gender studies or 18th century French poetry. <b>Education is a good thing. Massive debt is not. And neither is political indoctrination. C</b></span><span style="font-size: large;">olleges and universities are cesspools of wokeness, anti-capitalism, and anti-Americanism. They intentionally seek to destroy traditional values and religious beliefs.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Spending tens of thousands of dollars on college isn't the only way to get an education. In fact, in most cases a better education can be achieved with much less expense. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Consider vocational training at a trade school or local community college (much more affordable and useful, with less indoctrination) while working a real job. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">If you do have your heart set on a career requiring a college degree, make sure it is a good-paying career (accountant, doctor, lawyer, veterinarian, etc.) and get your degree as cheaply as possible without going into debt. This probably means going to a local community college to get the general curriculum courses, then transferring to a relatively affordable state university to finish your major. It may even mean taking some time of from your studies to work and save money to pay for your studies.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Just something to think about.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">---------------------</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/433FEv7" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1500" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJOlwhXpFYpnBlv3mEenSoban0bOm0MatGQrRNnXsmxifTmwF1QsoLwjkuENIg17sDfvpQvHA_tqD6YpwSsNnJavyDQg3hVACYBYW3qOWNRMpINOp-irdvIGp-gpjInRnfFBcs08MnL3vTmq9OGnpawJKrrUeyvHOjHTReO0xddFwDe0wE82bJ6oxeEqk/w200-h200/81ZDK1ZMgNL._SL1500_.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>Ad: </b></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #333333;"><a href="https://amzn.to/433FEv7" target="_blank"><b>Venison Jerky Meat Snack Sticks</b></a> - A Zero Sugar, Gluten Free, Nitrate Free, Low Carb healthy snack (one of my favorites). Perfect for the Paleo Diet, Keto Diet, Whole 30 Diet, Atkins Diet, and Low-Carb Diets. The animals are grass-fed and never given hormones or antibiotics. </span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8837176237537042878.post-49068528593754051232024-02-22T13:35:00.000-05:002024-02-22T13:35:58.114-05:0023 Action Steps to Defend the Second Amendment<div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">By Tim Gamble</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;">Join the Resistance! Subscribe by email (</span><b style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://follow.it/tim-gamble?action=followPub" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">click this link</a></b><span style="color: #222222;">)</span> </span></div></div><div><blockquote style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Amendment II</span></b></p><p><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.</span></i></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="color: #222222;"><b>1) Know Your Rights</b> - </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We have a natural (God-given) right to self-defense, and this includes the tools needed to defend ourselves. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="color: #222222;">This unalienable right is recognized and guaranteed by the Second Amendment to U.S. Constitution. Guns are a very useful, even necessary, tool of self-defense. They are also great for hunting, providing food, recreation through shooting sports, and collecting. But their primary function, as enshrined in the Constitution by our Founding Fathers, is for self-defense, <b>against both bad people and bad governments</b>. </span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222;"><b>Action Steps:</b></span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222;"></span><span style="color: #222222;"><b>A)</b> Read the <a href="http://www.timgamble.com/2014/10/the-constitution-of-united-states.html" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Constitution</b></span></a> and the <a href="http://www.timgamble.com/2014/10/the-bill-of-rights.html" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Bill of Rights</b></span></a>.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;"><b>B) </b>Get a "<span style="color: blue;"><b><a href="http://amzn.to/1MsBPCe" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">pocket copy</span></a></b></span>" of both (various organizations often give away such copies).</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;"><b>C)</b> Read the article "<a href="https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1005558/posts" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>The Six Things Americans Should Know About the Second Amendment</b></span></a>" by Richard W. Stevens.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;"><b>D)</b> Check out the <a href="http://www.biblicalselfdefense.com/" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Biblical Self-Defense</span></b></a> website.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;"><b>E)</b> </span><span style="color: #222222;">Learn the laws of your state and locality regarding firearms, self-defense, and concealed-carry & open-carry. Your local gun store should be able to help with this step. </span></span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;">[Why know State Laws if the Second </span><span style="color: #222222;">Amendment</span><span style="color: #222222;"> is clear? Because politicians and government officials don't always follow the Constitution, and it is difficult to defend the Second Amendment from a jail cell.]</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222;"></span><span style="color: #222222;"><b>2) Work to Change Unconstitutional Laws and Excessive Regulations</b></span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222;"></span><span style="color: #222222;">Many states and localities have passed legislation that violates the Second Amendment and/or otherwise restricts our inalienable right to self-defense. We must work diligently to change these laws and to prevent new restrictions. This takes time, effort, and awareness<b>. </b>The cost of freedom is eternal vigilance. </span><span style="color: #222222;"></span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222;"></span><span style="color: #222222;"><b>Action Steps:</b></span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222;"></span><span style="color: #222222;"><b>A)</b> Know the positions of political candidates regarding guns and self-defense. <b>Do not vote for candidates</b> that do not fully support the Second Amendment or that favor restrictions, even so-called "commonsense" restrictions, on guns and self-defense. <b>This is especially important in state and local elections!</b></span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;"><b>B)</b> </span><span style="color: #222222;">Make your voice heard. Pressure your politicians at all levels to be pro-Second Amendment, and to resist all gun control efforts. Many politicians end up voting in the direction they feel the greatest pressure. We have to make sure we out-pressure the Elites. The Elites are very good at this, and have the support of the main stream media and academia. We have to be better than them. Write, call, email, and visit your elected officials often. Attend town halls. Write newspaper editorials. Be outspoken. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>C) </b>Here's how to contact federal, state, and local government officials: <b style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials/" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">click this link.</a> </b><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;"><b>D)</b> Many gun rights organizations provide legislative alerts and suggested actions to take. Join their email lists and/or follow them on social media to stay informed of these opportunities. (A list of some of these organizations is in step #3 below.)</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222;"><b>3) Join Forces with Others Defending the Second Amendment</b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">There are many organizations defending the Second Amendment. Here are a few you should consider joining. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Action Steps:</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222;"><b>A) </b>Gun Owners Association (GOA) (<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://twitter.com/gunowners" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Twitter</span></b></a></span>, <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.gunowners.org/" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Website</span></b></a></span><span style="color: blue;">,<b> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/GunOwnersofAmerica" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">YouTube</span></a>)</b></span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;"><b>B) </b>National Rifle Association (NRA) (</span><a href="https://twitter.com/nra" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Twitter</b></span></a><span style="color: #222222;">, </span><a href="https://home.nra.org/" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Website</b></span></a><span style="color: #222222;">, </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/NRAVideos" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>YouTube</b></span></a><span style="color: #222222;">)</span><span style="color: blue;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="color: #222222;"><b>C) </b>National Association for Gun Rights (<span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://twitter.com/NatlGunRights" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Twitter</span></b></a></span>, <a href="https://nationalgunrights.org/" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Website</b></span></a>, <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/NAGRstaff" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">YouTube</span></a></b>)</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;"><b>D) </b>The Second Amendment Foundation (<a href="https://twitter.com/2afdn" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>T</b><b>witter</b></span></a>, <b><a href="https://www.saf.org/" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">Website</span></a></b>)<br /></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;"><b>E) </b></span></span></span>Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (<b><a href="https://twitter.com/JPFO_2A" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Twitter</span></a>, </b><a href="https://jpfo.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Website</span></b></a><span style="color: #333333;">) </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="color: #222222;"><b>4) Know the Facts</b></span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222;"></span><span style="color: #222222;">Over the years, many politicians and activists have been caught reciting facts and statistics that were highly distorted or even completely made-up. Opponents of the Second Amendment have no qualms about lying to get their way. It is crucial that we know the real facts and statistics so that we cannot be mislead, and so that we can correct the record and prevent others from being mislead.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Action Steps:</b><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222;"></span><span style="color: #222222;"><b>A) </b>Visit and explore the <a href="http://www.gunfacts.info/" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Gun Facts</b></span></a> website</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;"><b>B) </b>Download and read the free GOA ebook <a href="https://gunowners.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/2014gunfacts.pdf" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Gun Facts 6.2</span></b></a> (link opens a .pdf) - if someone knows of a newer version of this book, please drop a link to it in the comments section below. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;"></span><span style="color: #222222;"></span><span style="color: #222222;"><b>5) </b></span><span style="color: #222222;"><b>Promote Gun Ownership</b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Action Steps:<br style="color: #222222;" /></b><span style="color: #222222;"><b> </b></span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;"><b>A) </b>Own guns and enjoy them. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>B) </b>Encourage others to own guns, and to pursue hunting and shooting hobbies. The more people who own and enjoy guns, the harder it will be for the Elites to take our guns away. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;"><b>C) </b>Invite a gun-wary friend, neighbor, or co-worker to go hunting or shooting with you. Get to them before the Elites do.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;"><b>6) Schools and Zero-Tolerance</b></span><br style="color: #222222;" /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLxXlok82MK0YQU-zkgwQcpap4YWiDQ59lHPWvQEgWCVi9IrT7PCEc7jYYRiZygib5_KBSWWkMiOTA2F-zcQ0mW5uoMXQuUg-P9ElXckOd30hcWFRDx1yVwRLcA5byY8i2zHE-DdVxWsdQNZZQ1aLiX0LAM2Z1zuFNfp0Rm5QUgNFzBNTlAJX4kU_0/s600/Untitled.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #29aae1; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="276" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLxXlok82MK0YQU-zkgwQcpap4YWiDQ59lHPWvQEgWCVi9IrT7PCEc7jYYRiZygib5_KBSWWkMiOTA2F-zcQ0mW5uoMXQuUg-P9ElXckOd30hcWFRDx1yVwRLcA5byY8i2zHE-DdVxWsdQNZZQ1aLiX0LAM2Z1zuFNfp0Rm5QUgNFzBNTlAJX4kU_0/s320/Untitled.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="147" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="color: #222222;">Schools have enacted zero-tolerance policies that go way beyond banning the actual weapons from schools. School kids have, and are, getting suspended, expelled, and sometimes arrested for such absurdities as merely using the word "gun", drawing a picture of a gun, having one of those green plastic army men with a gun, biting a pop-tart into the shape of a gun, having a toy "bubble gun" or water pistol that looks nothing like a real gun, and even holding their forefinger and thumb into a gun shape while playing on the playground (no more playing cowboys and </span><span style="color: #222222;">Indians</span><span style="color: #222222;">, or even cops and robbers).</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><b style="color: #222222;"><br /></b><span style="color: #222222;">School officials are smart enough to understand the difference between a half-eaten pop tart that is sort of in the shape of a gun, and a real gun. They </span><b style="color: #222222;">intentionally overreact</b><span style="color: #222222;"> to such an incredible extent not to discourage guns on campus, but </span><b style="color: #222222;">to instill a deep-seated fear of guns into students</b><span style="color: #222222;">. The </span><span style="color: #222222;">Elites know that if the current generation of students are afraid of guns, it will be easier to ban guns once they grow up.</span><b style="color: #222222;"> </b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Action Steps:<br style="color: #222222;" /></b><span style="color: #222222;"><b><br />A) </b>Fight these absurd zero-tolerance rules in your kids' schools. Stand up to administrators who think your kid should be arrested for biting a potato-chip in such a way that it vaguely resembles a gun. Point out the absurdity of pretending that the tiny plastic gun that the green plastic army man is holding is the same as the real thing. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222;">B) </b><span style="color: #222222;">Make sure you are voting for school board members who respect the Second Amendment, as well as the rest of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. <b>This is absolutely </b></span><span style="color: #222222;"><b>crucial</b></span><span style="color: #222222;"><b>.</b> </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;"><b>C) </b>Teach your kids to respect guns, not to fear them. Teach them how to use guns safely. Take them shooting and hunting. Check out the<b> <a href="https://eddieeagle.nra.org/" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">NRA's Eddie Eagle GunSafe Program</span></a> </b>for kids<b>. </b>Ask at your local gun store about other age-appropriate gun safety programs in your area. </span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><b style="color: #222222;">7) Men, Get Your Woman Into Shooting</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;">Men, get your wives and girlfriends into shooting.</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><span style="color: #222222;">The more women who get into hunting and other shooting sports, the more secure the Second Amendment will be in the future.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222;"></span><span style="color: #222222;">Think about it. Wherever mothers go, there go their children. The more that children are exposed to responsible gun ownership, and the safe and fun use of guns, the less fearful they will be of guns, despite the anti-gun indoctrination in our schools.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222;"></span><span style="color: #222222;">The long-term future of the Second Amendment is being determined in the fight for the hearts and minds of children. The anti-gun activists know that the more fearful children are of guns while they are young, the more fearful they will be when they grow up. Then those fearful future adults - who will be voters, politicians, judges, bureaucrats, school administrators, teachers, and in other positions of influence - will be easier to convince to do away with the Second Amendment and accept complete gun confiscation (the ultimate goal of gun control).</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Action Steps:</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>A) </b><span style="color: #222222;"><b>Men, Get Your Woman Into Shooting. </b></span><span style="color: #222222;">The best and easiest way to stop the intentional spread of the</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><span style="color: #222222;">fear of guns into children is to get their mothers into guns.</span><b style="color: #222222;"> </b><span style="color: #222222;">Take your wife or girlfriend to the shooting range. Take them hunting. Get them into guns. And the message will seep down to their children.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="color: #222222;"></span><span style="color: #222222;"><b>Suggestions:</b></span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;"><b><br /></b>I'm not a woman, but I do have some commonsense suggestions for how to get your wife or girlfriend into shooting:<b> </b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><ul style="line-height: 1.4; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Be patient. </span></span></li><li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Make it fun. </span></span></li><li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Don't be a jerk, talk down to her, or make it into some macho thing. </span></span></li><li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The purpose is to get her into shooting, not to show off your skills or to impress her with your manliness.</span></span></li><li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Don't take over and try to make decisions for her. </span></span></li><li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Let other people help - you're probably the wrong person to teach her how to shoot, no matter how good you are. </span></span></li><li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Take a class together. </span></span></li><li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Don't "take her" shooting or hunting, instead go shooting or hunting together (an important difference, especially to a woman). </span></span></li><li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Let her progress at her own pace.</span></span></li></ul></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;">I would love to get suggestions from women on how to get women into shooting sports. Please leave suggestions in the comments section below.</span><b style="color: #222222;"> </b> </span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><div><span style="color: #303030;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">-------------------------</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #303030; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/49egNGt" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #29aae1; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="285" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF-9zN7FojSlVi5ctXfeCGFHvDAcvnDiq7q7wD6eeuCIW620mEraPXfgILjIpz8_Fhxc_nnXP9lTvyXsHTOGP-hA9n4ZHAJ76t7Q2BBnhHwbfBk-4EXJOcdZE-f644VIKVe52ebYJGTMh_hncvZQXL6yO0eRfAYXSKKJr6etZ0lTVENqj5k1ZAl-mHrIM/w178-h200/71xei9S-2wL._AC_UL320_.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="178" /></a></div><span style="color: #303030;">AD: </span><a href="https://amzn.to/4bncQkX" style="color: #29aae1; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Gun Safes on Amazon</span></a><span style="color: #303030;">. </span></b><span style="color: #303030;">Various sizes and styles available. Great for guns, but also other valuables such as cash, gold, silver, and important documents. </span></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8837176237537042878.post-15841819232769036532024-02-22T11:41:00.002-05:002024-02-22T11:41:13.708-05:00Nigeria: Muslim Terrorists Kill 23 in 3-Day String of Attacks<div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">02/22/2024 Nigeria – </b>From February 16 to February 19, suspected Islamic terrorists killed 23 people, injured 10, kidnapped five, and set ablaze 28 houses across multiple villages in Nigeria, according to reports by International Christian Concern (ICC). It is unknown if these are coordinated attacks or if the same terrorists are committing each attack in the area. </span></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span data-contrast="auto" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">On Friday, February 16, suspected Islamic terrorists invaded the Kwassam community in Kauru County of Benue State, burned six people alive, and kidnapped five others, including a well-known banker. </span></span></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span data-contrast="auto" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Then, in the early morning of February 18, suspected Islamic terrorists killed 11 Christians and burned down 28 houses in Adama Dutse Village in Kaduna State. </span><span data-contrast="auto" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">According to residents from the village who confirmed the attack, “<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">The attackers were on many motorcycles, shouting ‘Allah Akbar’</em> [God is Greatest].” The villagers were said to be sleeping when the terrorists launched the attack in the early morning hours.</span></span></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">“Police came seven hours after the attack to take photos and ask questions,” </i><span data-contrast="auto" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">said Audu Tanko from Kajuru county. </span><i style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">“There is tension now in my village. We are killed because of our faith in Jesus,” </i><span data-contrast="auto" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">said Tanko.</span></span></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span data-contrast="auto" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">A day later, in the late hours of February 19, suspected terrorists attacked a Christian community in Katsina, the home state of former president Mahamadu Buhari. The Nigeria Police confirmed six people were killed and 10 were injured during the attack.</span><span data-contrast="auto" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"> The terrorist stormed the village of Nasarawa in the Faskari county of Katsina State late Monday with heavy arms, including AK-47 rifles, said Abubakar Aliyu, the spokesperson for the Nigeria police in Katsina State, in a press statement.</span></span></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span data-contrast="auto" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The police spokesman said, <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">“In total, six people were shot dead and about 10 injured. The gunmen also set ablaze three houses and about 10 vehicles.”</em></span></span></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span data-contrast="auto" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">ICC Website: </span></b></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><a href="https://www.persecution.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>https://www.persecution.org/</b></span></a></span></span></span></div><div style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;">--------------------------</span><i><br /></i></span><p style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span data-contrast="auto" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"></em></span></span></p><a href="https://amzn.to/3WnD92r" style="clear: left; color: #1118cc; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="398" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYEtW1E5pBzgz0sQ3DWeBqBG8lj7N3mNVHqiAiX08OJ9fwE063w_SWKhu3-0IZyzhP7Vxv-qH-0XBsdQZ_QxV2Wa2UTL6swFo-8bVZrOPBdTZHu3Ik1VZ3C_zZno2MXmoF5EPI3pLjXaoCUwdYvzuE2lQOzH3kdXVZvjjN9KxAJZrNuoFOF0uFCIDx/w196-h200/A1vJUKBjc2L._CLa_500,468_81PbXFlfdbL.png_0,0,500,468+0.0,0.0,500.0,468.0_AC_.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="196" /></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>AD: <a href="https://amzn.to/3WnD92r" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Proverbs 22:3 T-Shirt</a> - </b>"A prudent man foresees the difficulties ahead and prepares for them; the simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences." - Available in men's, women's, and youth sizes, and in multiple colors. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><div style="color: #222222;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8837176237537042878.post-67879238500565254482024-02-21T11:30:00.001-05:002024-02-21T11:30:47.502-05:005 Warnings About Bank Safe Deposit Boxes<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">By Tim Gamble</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;">Join the Resistance! Subscribe by email (</span><b style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://follow.it/tim-gamble?action=followPub" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">click this link</a></b><span style="color: #222222;">)</span> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Bank safe deposit boxes may seem like the perfect place to store important documents, plans, and even valuables. And in many cases this may be true. However, here are five considerations to think through carefully before deciding to do so.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222;">First</b><span style="color: #222222;">, you won't have 24/7 access to the documents and other items in your box, as banks are generally closed at night, and on weekends and holidays. Also, in some circumstances, banks may not open during normal business hours due to inclement weather, natural disasters, or "bank holidays" during financial disasters. It is generally recommended that items that may need to be quickly accessed NOT be stored in a safe deposit box, such as passports, medical directives, living wills, etc. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222;">Second</b><span style="color: #222222;">, if you are forced to suddenly bug-out for whatever reason, it is highly doubtful you'll have time to swing by the bank to collect your documents and valuables on your way out of town, even if the bank is open. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;"><b style="color: #222222;">Third</b><span style="color: #222222;">, your documents and other items in safe deposit boxes are NOT insured by the government (FDIC does NOT cover the contents of safe deposit boxes). The contents may or may not be insured privately by the bank. You'll have to read your agreement closely to find out if your bank maintains private insurance on the contents, and what exclusions and limitations may apply. It is also worth noting that "</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #222222;"><i>The bank cannot be held responsible for anything that may happen to your safety deposit box, nor the items contained within the box,</i>" a</span></span><span style="color: #222222;">ccording to </span><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/safe-deposit-boxes.html" style="font-weight: bold;">legalmatch.com</a>.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;"> In other words, the bank cannot be held legally liable if the contents of your safe deposit box are somehow stolen, lost, or damaged. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;"><b>Fourth,</b> </span><span style="color: #222222;">law enforcement and government officials will have access to your safe deposit box. According to <b><a href="https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/safe-deposit-boxes.html">legalmatch.com</a></b>, "</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: medium;"><i>Government regulatory or enforcement agencies may obtain a court order to access your safe deposit box in some circumstances. An example of this would be if they have “reasonable cause” to believe your box contains illegal or illegally-obtained items. Safe deposit boxes may be frozen, similar to a bank account, until the matter has been resolved.</i>" </span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #222222;">Fifth,</b><span style="color: #222222;"> be aware of what happened in Argentina during their financial crisis. Banks were closed by the government for an extend period of time. When they reopened, bank customers found that their safe deposit boxes had been emptied out, either by corrupt bank employees or corrupt government officials (or both, working together). In most cases, those bank customers had no recourse and never recovered their stolen items. </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">-----------------------</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3OPs5cF" style="clear: left; color: #888888; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img alt="https://amzn.to/2Ygd4Uy" border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCxMxlTDbkbqlTISQYvqtnylj-3sKrDb56IqiaztvautqSghLbdUgO0wK2aaCPCm7JMG9B6wov3oJlb3WHo5esIhhN4JNUNwX5fqhLv_FlvgkuYKOvM570XkMCPKcddp-D8eMdGzZHxD0/s200/71lf-0RDF3L._SL1000_.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="200" /></span></a></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3OPs5cF" style="color: #29aae1; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>ROLOWAY Large Fireproof Document Bag</b></span></a><span style="color: #222222;">. The ROLOWAY Large (17"x12"x5.8") Fireproof (to 2000°F) and Water-resistant Document Bag is perfect for your important documents, cash, and other valuables. </span></span></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8837176237537042878.post-75727778065079146242024-02-20T07:30:00.001-05:002024-02-20T07:30:00.132-05:00Encryption 101 - Part 2 (An Easy and Free Encryption Method)<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">By Tim Gamble</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;">Join the Resistance! Subscribe by email (</span><b style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://follow.it/tim-gamble?action=followPub" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">click this link</a></b><span style="color: #222222;">)</span> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.timgamble.com/2024/02/encryption-101-part-1-beginners-guide.html" target="_blank">Part 1</a></b> was posted yesterday, and is a general introduction to encryption for the non-techie.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>--The following information is specifically for Windows systems--</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Encryption Software</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="color: #333333;">There is a lot of encryption software out there, much of it you have to buy. For years, I used </span><b><a href="https://www.rohos.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Rohos software</span></a></b><span style="color: #333333;">, which has both a paid and free version. The free version has less bells and whistles and you are limited, last time I checked, to two gigabytes of encryption (which actually should be plenty for most folks). Rohos worked very well for me, and it does let you create a hidden partition to hide your encrypted data (but that is not really necessary, in my opinion). I haven't used Rohos in years, so things may have changed. </span><br /><br /><b style="color: #333333;">An Easy, Free Alternative </b><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">I eventually discovered that 7-Zip archive software allows for password-protected full AES-256 encryption. That is one of the encryption standards that I mentioned in Part 1. All that you really need to know is that it is considered one of the absolute best. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333;">Archive software, such as 7-Zip, is used to compress, or zip-up, files (and extract them later) in order to save memory space. Using 7-Zip to create and password protect encrypted files is easy, even for non-techies. Simply follow these steps:</span><br /><br /><b style="color: #333333;">1- </b><span style="color: #333333;">If you don't already have 7-Zip, you can download and install it on your computer. You can get it at Major Geeks (a software site that I have used for years and trust). Go to </span><a href="https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/7_zip.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/7_zip.html</span></b></a><span style="color: #333333;"> to get it. Again, it is free.</span><br /><br /><b style="color: #333333;">2- </b><span style="color: #333333;">Once it is installed, navigate to the folder containing the files and folders that you want to encrypt. Select the files and folders that you want to encrypt, perform a right-click on them, click 7-Zip from the menu, and then click the "Add to archive" option. This works on your Windows-based desktop, laptop, or any USB key (memory stick). 7-Zip compresses and encrypts all files within any folder you select. I simply keep most of my sensitive files in the same folder, using sub-folders to organize the files, and encrypt/decrypt that folder as needed. </span><br /><br /><b style="color: #333333;">3- </b><span style="color: #333333;">At the Add to Archive dialog box, you can either choose the default name in the top box, or type in a new name for the folder or file, and choose the destination for the encrypted file (the ... button to the right of the top line). Make sure the Archive format (next box down) is set to 7z or zip.</span><br /><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="651" data-original-width="701" height="370" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rKs1KhI_Shk/XFyiM-i_4UI/AAAAAAAAFmM/ZJu6P338_coTBA4PF6MHMQjyrNqW4-toACLcBGAs/s400/Capture.PNG" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Note:</b> Your "Add to Archive" box may look slightly different depending on your particular version.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rKs1KhI_Shk/XFyiM-i_4UI/AAAAAAAAFmM/ZJu6P338_coTBA4PF6MHMQjyrNqW4-toACLcBGAs/s1600/Capture.PNG" style="color: #29aae1; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></a></div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>4-</b> In the same dialog box, you add a password in the Encryption dialog in the right-column about halfway down, where it says Password and Re-enter Password. <b>You need to remember this password!</b> Just below that, make sure the Encryption method is set to AES-256. Then click Okay. 7-Zip will then zip-up the encrypted file and place it wherever you choose in step 3. Depending on the size of the files and your computer's speed, this way take anywhere from a few seconds to several minutes.<br /><br /><b>5- </b>You have now created an encrypted file. At this point, you may want to delete/shred the original folder and start using the encrypted folder exclusively (make sure the password for the encrypted folder works first, of course). You may move this encrypted file around, place it on a USB key, make back-up copies of it, or whatever you want to do.<br /><br /><b>6- </b>To open and use the encrypted files, just right click the encrypted file, select 7-Zip, select Open archive, and the 7-Zip file manager will pop up, and use it to open the encrypted file with your password by choosing the file/folder you want, clicking on Extract (green dash), clicking Okay, then entering your password.<br /><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="532" data-original-width="1031" height="205" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BilFJP31leA/XFykjJlB91I/AAAAAAAAFmY/v6O5hAaGRJseCCC4QIQqNiniQviDpVGawCLcBGAs/s400/Capturerr.PNG" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Note:</b> Your box may look slightly different depending on your particular version</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BilFJP31leA/XFykjJlB91I/AAAAAAAAFmY/v6O5hAaGRJseCCC4QIQqNiniQviDpVGawCLcBGAs/s1600/Capturerr.PNG" style="color: #29aae1; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></a></div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>A final note</b>: It is still possible to accidentally delete files encrypted by this method the same way you may accidentally delete your non-encrypted files, so pay attention to what you're doing! Remember, if you accidentally delete something from your computer, you can usually recover it from your recycle bin.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">--------------------</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3H315AS" style="clear: left; color: #29aae1; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img alt="Please subscribe to Dystopian Survival using the Follow By Email field at the bottom of the right hand column." border="0" data-original-height="1461" data-original-width="1197" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tk8RpJ1hAn8/XdiFhwKLKdI/AAAAAAAAGKs/MoDNMNGNuS0AUYRpdiFU_M0-EZln3wZLACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/61hwFXMlmdL._SL1500_.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="262" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>AD: </b>I use and highly recommend <a href="https://amzn.to/3H315AS" style="color: #29aae1; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">GorillaDrive USB Flash Drives</span></b></a>. They are designed to be pressure / impact resistant (up to 250 psi), heat resistant (up to 225 degrees F), and water resistant (up to 65 feet). Although they list freeze resistance at 32 degrees F, one of mine did survive outside overnight in below freezing weather (mid 20s), when I accidentally left it on top of my vehicle. I've been using Gorilla Drives for 10 years and have never had one fail.</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8837176237537042878.post-59071357691108544322024-02-19T11:30:00.000-05:002024-02-19T11:30:08.989-05:00Encryption 101 - Part 1 (A Beginner's Guide)<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">By Tim Gamble</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;">All my links: </span><b><a href="https://linktr.ee/timgamble" style="color: #29aae1; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://linktr.ee/timgamble</span></a><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></b></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">--The following information is specifically for Windows systems-- </span></b></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">You know, or at least have heard, that you should protect your information. You may have even heard the word "encryption." But, what exactly is encryption? And how do you do it? Do you need awesome tech skills or expensive software? This article will quickly give you a basic understanding of encryption and what you may need to encrypt, as well as reveal (in part 2) an easy and free way even non-techies can use encryption. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b>What is encryption?</b> Very simply, encryption is a way to "scramble" information stored on your computer, laptop, USB key (memory stick), or other electronic device so that no one without the encryption password can read it. So, if someone steals your laptop or you lose your USB key, no one can read the sensitive files that are encrypted on it, even if they otherwise can get into your device. There are several different methods and standards for encryption, but there is no need to understand the technical specifications in order to use encryption.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b>What needs to be encrypted? </b> How much of your information you decide to encrypt is up to you. I personally only encrypt personal information of a sensitive nature - tax and financial records, business records, insurance information, medical information, my master list of passwords and pin numbers, contact lists, back-up copies of important documents such as birth certificates, CC permits, deeds, titles, driver's licenses and passports. I also encrypt certain "prepper" information that might reveal aspects of my prepping that I don't want to be public knowledge, such as planned bug-out locations, or guns and ammo, food storage and medical supply lists, among others. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;">I see no need to encrypt my music and video files, photos, or even most of the prepper-type videos, articles, and eBooks I've downloaded over the years. In fact, less than 15% of my computer files are encrypted. <b>I only bother encrypting truly sensitive information. </b></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b>Why encrypt important information?</b> Privacy is important. ID theft has become a $20 billion a year industry in the United States. Then there is the government, public schools, Big Tech, large corporations, political and social activists, snooping employers, and even nosy neighbors that want to know everything about you, even (especially) the stuff that is absolutely none of their business. Preppers and survivalists also should be concerned about operational security. There are lots of legitimate reason to protect your data. The idea that only "bad people" need to worry about privacy is a stunningly ignorant opinion. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b>Are there drawbacks to encryption? </b>There is one, and its potentially a huge drawback. If you forget or lose your password, there is no way to recover it. No one will be able to send you a link to change your password. Even the encryption software company or your favorite IT guy will not be able to recover or change it for you. If you cannot figure out your password, you will be locked out of your encrypted data forever.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Also, its worth noting that the encryption is only as strong as your password. Don't use an obvious or easy-to-guess password, such as your mother's or wife's maiden name, your dog's name, your social security number, or even "password." Many security experts now suggest using a random sentence as your password, such as "IhatepurpleeggssaidSam" (that one is "I hate purple eggs said Sam" without the spaces) - make it something that you'll remember but no one else is likely to ever guess.</span></span><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Does the Government (FBI, NSA, etc) have the ability to break encryption? </b>This is a controversial question, and opinions vary widely. At the very least, it is not quick or easy for the government to break into encrypted data. Even at the highest levels, it would take considerable time and resources, and even then it may not be possible. However, I personally assume that with their technical expertise, access to supercomputers, and other resources, the government would be able to <i>eventually</i> break any encryption if they were determined enough to do so. </span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">"Determined enough" means willing to devote a considerable amount of time, manpower, and other resources. They do not care enough about your list of prepper supplies or bug-out locations to devote such effort to your data. They would need a real reason to go after your data to such an extent. </span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;"><b>Does </b></span><b style="color: #333333;">the Government (FBI, NSA, etc)</b><span style="color: #333333;"><b> the legal right break into my encrypted data? Can they force me to reveal my password? </b>Constitutionally, no. In the USA, they would need a warrant, obtained only after showing just cause, to go after your data. And even then, they would not be able to force you to cooperate (5th amendment means they cannot force you to incriminate yourself). However, in recent years, we have seen the government and even the Court system itself ignore the Constitution when it is convenient for them to do so. Most other countries do not even have similar 5th amendment protections, and folks in those countries may be jailed for refusing to reveal a password. <br /></span></span><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">--------------------</span></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3H315AS" style="clear: left; color: #29aae1; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img alt="Please subscribe to Dystopian Survival using the Follow By Email field at the bottom of the right hand column." border="0" data-original-height="1461" data-original-width="1197" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tk8RpJ1hAn8/XdiFhwKLKdI/AAAAAAAAGKs/MoDNMNGNuS0AUYRpdiFU_M0-EZln3wZLACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/61hwFXMlmdL._SL1500_.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="262" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333;"><b>AD: </b>I use and highly recommend </span><a href="https://amzn.to/3H315AS" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">GorillaDrive USB Flash Drives</span></b></a><span style="color: #333333;">. They </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">are designed to be pressure / impact resistant (up to 250 psi), heat resistant (up to 225 degrees F), and water resistant (up to 65 feet). Although they list freeze resistance at 32 degrees F, one of mine did survive outside overnight in below freezing weather (mid 20s), when I accidentally left it on top of my vehicle. I've been using Gorilla Drives for 10 years and have never had one fail.</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8837176237537042878.post-2492739130696554342024-02-18T14:05:00.002-05:002024-02-18T14:05:32.008-05:00UK: Nearly a Quarter of 18 to 34 Year Olds Believe the Bible Should Be Banned<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">By Tim Gamble</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;">All my links: </span><b><a href="https://linktr.ee/timgamble" style="color: #29aae1; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://linktr.ee/timgamble</span></a><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">02/18/2024 UK </span>– Last week, International Christian Concern (ICC) reported on a study in the United Kingdom showing that nearly a quarter of young Brits are open to <b>banning the Bible</b>, because it contains perceived hate speech.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Whitestone Insights, a UK-based polling group, surveyed over 2,000 adults, asking if they agreed with the following statement: “<i>Unless the offending parts can be edited out, books containing what some perceive as hate speech should be banned from general sale, including if necessary religious texts such as the Bible.</i>”</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Whitestone found that young Brits, ages 18 to 34, were most likely to agree with this statement, amounting to 23% of participants. Middle-aged Brits, ages 35 to 54, were the second highest group at 17%, followed by Brits over age 55 at 13%.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The results tell of a deeper social belief in the UK that <b>Christian views should be censored</b> – and it is a belief that has plagued all of Europe.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Last year, an American street preacher was arrested in England for preaching the Bible. A woman was also arrested for silently praying outside of an abortion clinic – and in neighboring Finland, Paivi Räsänen, a member of the Finish parliament, faced charges of hate speech after sharing her religious beliefs on social media.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">These cases, along with the recent poll, are a concerning reminder of the <b>declining state of religious freedom</b> occurring in Western democracies around the world.</span></p></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;"><b><span style="color: #222222;">ICC Website: </span></b></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #222222;"><b><a href="https://www.persecution.org/">https://www.persecution.org/</a></b></span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">------------------<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2h6IWci" style="clear: left; color: #29aae1; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img alt="http://amzn.to/2h6IWci" border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="500" height="170" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-59WDMMWGH1I/W8uJChwjtUI/AAAAAAAAFL0/IDrAmtQy3oY5goQhyZUrtOekZTg2BpemQCLcBGAs/s200/51la16CkqYL.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2h6IWci" style="color: #29aae1; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Kaito KA500 Emergency Radio</span></b></a>. This one has is all: AM/FM/SW/NOAA (weather alert) bands; powered five ways (electrical cord, USB port, AA batteries, solar, and hand-crank); plus flashlight, reading lamp, and cellphone charger.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8837176237537042878.post-85356179422941724522024-02-16T07:00:00.001-05:002024-02-16T07:00:00.136-05:00A brief essay on the proper relationship between the Citizen and Politics<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">I originally published the following essay in 2014. In light of our current circumstances, I feel the need to republish it. I believe the concepts within the essay are worth revisiting, because so many of our fellow Americans have forgotten them. Please read this essay thoughtfully, paying special attention to those ideas in <b>bold. </b></i></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /><b>A brief essay on the proper relationship between the Citizen and Politics.</b></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">By Tim Gamble</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;">All my links: </span><b><a href="https://linktr.ee/timgamble" style="color: #29aae1; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://linktr.ee/timgamble</span></a><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></b></span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br />This essay isn't about which candidate or party to support with your vote, money, or time. In that sense, this is a non-partisan essay. Rather, this essay concerns itself with <i>how</i> a prepper, survivalist, Christian, or any other American for that matter, should approach politics.<br /><br />First, let's get one thing straight: <b>politics affects everyone.</b> You can ignore it, but you can't hide from it. Politics affects everything from the health of the economy, to whether or not government respects your rights (government doesn't give you rights - those come from God - but government often tries to deny you those rights). From zoning laws to EPA regulations, sales taxes to the education system, directly or indirectly we all are affected by politics. For better or for worse, and it seems too often to be for worse, politics affects your life everyday, and in many ways.<br /><br />Therefore, you must deal with politics. But how? There are many ways: One response is to simply try to ignore politics as best you can. But you will still have to deal with consequences of politics, whether you want to or not.</span></span><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Another response is to try to manipulate politics to your advantage (the elites in big business and the political class are masters of this manipulation). Most people today choose one of those responses, at least to some degree. I suggest a third - respond as a true <b>Citizen of the Republic</b>.<br /><br />Before I define how a Citizen of the Republic responds, let me say this: <i>Politics will not save us. What is wrong with America goes well beyond politics and economics. It is a spiritual sickness which infects the USA. No politician, no election, no piece of legislation, will cure spiritual sickness. We must appeal to a Higher Authority for that kind of healing. </i><br /><br /><b>The United States of America is a Republic, NOT a Democracy</b><br /><br />The first thing a Citizen of the Republic should realize is that the United States is NOT a democracy. It is a Republic, and that is a very good thing. Democracy is Evil. It is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for dinner. In a democracy, rights come from government, and therefore are subject to change with the passing whims of the times. The rights of individuals, even basic rights such as the rights to life, free speech, free exercise of religion, and even self-defense, can be ignored or even taken away by the government or a simple majority vote of the people.<br /><br />In a Republic, Rights are external from government. Rights come from a Higher Authority (God, the Creator, Natural Law, Nature and Nature's God, or whatever one wishes to call that Higher Authority). Since Rights don't come from the government, <b>government cannot take away or change those Rights</b>. Not even by majority vote. <br /><br />Those Rights from God (or whatever you wish to call the Higher Authority) are therefore "unalienable," literally un-a-lien-able. A "lien" being a legal claim on something belonging to another (a lien on a house, for example, where someone other than the owner, typically the government or a bank, claims an interest over the house, typically over money owed). Something being unalienable means that no one can claim an interest over it other than the owner. In the case of unalienable Rights, no one - not even government, not even a majority of voters - can make any claim against those Rights. Well, they can and do try, but those efforts are immoral, unjust, and not valid under a Republic.<br /><br />The United States was intentionally created by our Founders as a Republic, not a democracy. They knew and feared the dangers of democracy, and wanted to protect themselves and their fellow Citizens from it. Sadly, since the early days of our founding, the United States has slowly been slipping away from a Republic, and into a democracy. In recent decades, and even more so in recent years, this process has been greatly accelerated. Today, we stand on the brink of becoming a full-fledged democracy, with the last remnants of the old Republic slipping away. This is the source of most of our nation's political problems, and has made the people little more than slaves of a government which demands ever-increasing control over our lives, rights, money, and property.<br /><br /><i><b>Note:</b> The word "democracy" does not appear anywhere in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, or the Bill of Rights. Nor does it appear in any of the fifty state constitutions. We were never intended to be a democracy. </i><br /><br /><b>Limited Government</b><br /><i><br /></i>The way our Founding Fathers protected<i> </i>the Citizens of the Republic from democracy was through the concept of Limited Government. They created a government<b> limited in both size and power </b>by the Constitution, with our unalienable Rights <i>guaranteed </i>(not granted)<i> </i> in the Bill of Rights. <br /><br />The Constitution establishes <b>and limits</b> the scope of the federal government. It sets up a system of checks-and-balances intended to keep government and politicians from exceeding their limits of power as set forth in the Constitution. The Bill of Rights specifically guarantees that government will respect the unalienable Rights of the people. In other words, the Constitution and Bill of Rights intend that <b>the Citizens of the Republic be more powerful than the government</b> that represents them.<br /><br />It has taken more than 100 years for the elites in the political class to successfully re-interpret our Founding documents to subvert the Republic into a democracy, and to successfully dumb-down the American people to accept, and even applaud, the evils of democracy. <br /><br /><i><b>Amendment X of the Constitution:</b> The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.</i><br /><br /><b>Respond as a Citizen of the Republic</b><br /><br />Democracy is mob-rule. It is divisive, and based in emotion, selfishness, and greed. It is easy to manipulate. Reason and logic, and an unwavering belief in the Higher Authority, are the cure to democracy. Think; don't react emotionally. Consider the consequences, both intentional and unintentional, of your words, actions, and votes. <br /><br />To enable you to <b>think with reason, not emotion,</b> you need to <b>learn real history, real economics, and real civics</b>, rather than the pro-democracy and pro-collectivist propaganda taught in public schools over the last several generations.<br /><br />Be independent of government. Do not look to government for hand-outs, freebies, or special favors. <b>Be self-reliant.</b> The less dependent on government you are, the less power government will be able to exert over you.<br /><br />Don't look to government to "make life fair" or to "get even" with people who may be richer or more successful than you. One of the most successful tactics of the collectivists is to convince people that they are "victims" and need government to protect them and make things right. <b>Don't ever think of yourself as a victim.</b><br /><br />Don't look to government to redistribute the wealth of others. Holding a gun to someones head and demanding they give you money is theft. Having the government hold a gun to someones head, demanding their money, and then giving their money to you, is also theft. <b>Don't ever think you are entitled to anything without having to earn it first</b>, other than your God-given Rights.<br /><br />Realize<b> the sole legitimate purpose to government is to protect the unalienable Rights of its Citizens</b>; to protect Life, Liberty, and Property. The role of government is not to protect individuals from their own mistakes and bad choices. <br /><br /><i>But what about helping the poor, widows, orphans, and others who cannot help themselves? Shouldn't we help them? Isn't that what Jesus' taught? </i>Yes, He did. The role of government is to protect the Life, Liberty, and Property of all, especially those who cannot help themselves. But, help beyond that is the proper role of the Church, charities, and individuals. When Jesus, and later the Apostles, taught us to help others, it was always a command to us as individuals and as His followers (the Church). Never did Jesus or the Apostles teach that such help was the role of the government. On the contrary, we are expected to help each other. <br /><br />Work hard to <b>elect candidates to public office who realize that we are a Republic</b>, not a democracy, and who understand the difference. Look for candidates who are pro-Constitution, pro-Bill of Rights (all of them), pro-Free Market Capitalism, and pro-Liberty. This is important on the federal level, but also and especially <b>on the state and local levels</b>.<br /><br />In considering politicians, <b>character matters, especially integrity</b>. If a politician or candidate is dishonest, you cannot trust them to keep their word to respect the Constitution and our unalienable Rights. Liars rarely keep their word.<br /><br /><b>Pay attention</b> to what your elected officials actually do, and hold them accountable. Not just in DC, but <b>in your state and hometown</b>, too.<br /><br /><b>Beware of politicians using a crisis to enact laws</b> taking away our liberty, even "temporarily." Realize that temporary laws, such as the income tax was supposed to be, are never temporary. Once government successful takes on an expanded power, it never willing lets it go. Government doesn't care about you as an individual, or about your rights. <b>Government only cares about expanding and protecting its power.</b><br /><br />Politicians and government officials often use crises, real or imagined, as the excuse to expand government power. By definition, <b>government power can only be expanded at the loss of individual liberty</b>.<br /><br /><i>"We must pass this law (or this tax) in order to stop terrorism, stop crime, stop climate change, win the war on drugs, and protect the children. If you are against this law or this tax, then you must be a potential terrorist, or a criminal, or hate children." </i>-- any politician, anytime, wanting to pass a new law or tax</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><div style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">-------------------------------</span></div><div style="color: #222222;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3yehcIx" style="clear: left; color: #1118cc; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="333" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS9gS7A-c2weS8u8g25kq1ntaPb3-jD25XtQG8q2SpO0L7GFcL25GDPovwZQFdZ5zlVROAmx-QrYNwRDO1Edfv1amFVtb-t8uMktR4zLLn60Gy1xSsujcv6QSYkUFNHWoP4o9E6mKap2jw2cXIu7iH80-lSmVphXnwcnwLWsrRvrqW0IUPS1ujTEAW/w134-h200/51MliW8wRzL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="134" /></span></a></div></div><div style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>AD: </b><b><a href="https://amzn.to/3yehcIx" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Total Resistance</a></b> - The classic study on resistance & underground operations, by Swiss Major H. von Dach. Recommended by Pastor Joe Fox (aka Viking Preparedness). </span></div><div style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>AD: <a href="https://amzn.to/3mugnsI" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Resistance Operating Concept (ROC)</a></b> - Another great resource for resistance & underground operations. Recommended by both Pastor Joe Fox (aka Viking Preparedness) and Bear of Bear Independent. </span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8837176237537042878.post-52834491456953206032024-02-15T07:30:00.001-05:002024-02-15T07:30:00.135-05:00Four Things Patriots Should NEVER Do<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">By Tim Gamble</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;">Join the Resistance! Subscribe by email (</span><b style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://follow.it/tim-gamble?action=followPub" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">click this link</a></b><span style="color: #222222;">)</span> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I've written past articles about these four things that patriots should NEVER do, not in good times nor in bad times, but it bears repeating. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /><b>1) NEVER give up your personal sovereignty.</b> You are responsible for yourself and your family. Never look to the government to protect you or save you, even in a major crisis. Especially in a major crisis. Remember the political saying "<i>Never let a good crisis go to waste.</i>" Don't be naive about politicians and bureaucrats. Don't trade your freedoms for the promise of security. Figure out now how to survive future chaos without going to the FEMA camp or blindly following the instructions of "authorities."<br /><br /><b>2) NEVER give up your ability to defend yourself. </b>Self-defense is a God-given right that neither government nor society has the right to take away from you. This includes the right to the tools of self-defense, such as guns and knives. Strongly support the Second Amendment now, and resist all attempts to curtail it. Avoid situations in which you are required to disarm (such as flying or entering a government building). Learn to defend yourself with your hands and improvised weapons in case you are ever forced to disarm.<br /><b><br /></b><b>3) NEVER stop improving yourself and your situation.</b> Never stop learning new skills. Never stop practicing old skills. Never stop adjusting your plans. Never stop developing your homestead or bug-out retreat. Never stop building your supplies. Even highly-experienced experts need to keep learning, keep practicing, keep planning. and keep preparing.<br /><br /><b>4) NEVER make a threat you are not ready, willing, and able to back up.</b> No matter how prepared and skilled you are, the safest confrontation is the one you avoid. Never let your ego or overconfidence cause you bite off more than you can chew. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">------------------<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2h6IWci" style="clear: left; color: #29aae1; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img alt="http://amzn.to/2h6IWci" border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="500" height="170" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-59WDMMWGH1I/W8uJChwjtUI/AAAAAAAAFL0/IDrAmtQy3oY5goQhyZUrtOekZTg2BpemQCLcBGAs/s200/51la16CkqYL.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2h6IWci" style="color: #29aae1; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: blue;">Kaito KA500 Emergency Radio</span></b></a>. 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Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship on Hillsdale’s Washington, D.C., campus, as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series.</span></i></span></p><p class="p1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span class="s1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In 1960, the Eisenhower administration began counting the number of foreign nationals “apprehended” or “encountered” by what was then called the U.S. Border Control when crossing into the U.S. over its southern border with Mexico. These figures have been published and closely monitored through the years, and there has never been anything like the numbers we are seeing now. A human tsunami of previously unfathomable size—Border Patrol has had to handle more than 7.6 million border crossers in 36 months—has smashed every record, with each year’s numbers exceeding the previous year’s record in stair-stepping fashion.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span class="s1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Of the over 7.6 million illegals encountered by Border Patrol since January 2021, the number allowed to stay inside the U.S. is somewhere north of five million. But with the percentage of those allowed to stay now approaching 100 percent, if current trends hold, the total allowed to remain in the U.S. under the Biden administration will reach ten million by next January.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span class="s2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The U.S. has experienced surges of illegal immigration in the past, but these have been brought quickly under control by implementing policies to deter, block, detain, and deport illegal immigrants. Not this time. To put the current numbers in perspective, consider that Jeh Johnson, President Obama’s Director of Homeland Security, told MSNBC that in his time in office—when the number of illegal crossings was relatively low—he considered it bad if apprehensions exceeded 1,000 a day, because anything more than that “overwhelms the system.” Over the past three years, apprehensions have averaged about 6,940 per day.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span class="s2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Even with a surge in illegal crossings in 2019—this was due to a legal loophole that encouraged illegals to cross with minors—the Trump administration had brought apprehensions down to between 800 and 1,500 a day in his final year in office, the lowest numbers in 45 years. Four months into the Biden administration, apprehensions spiked to about 6,000 per day. There were 2.4 million apprehensions in 2022, a daily average of 6,575. In 2023 there were three million apprehensions, a daily average of 8,219. Entering 2024, apprehensions were up to 12,000 to 15,000 per day.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span class="s1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The reality is even worse, because these numbers do not include the people who entered the U.S. illegally without being apprehended—sometimes referred to as “gotaways”—a number the Border Patrol estimates but does not make public. That estimate over the past three years is two million, bringing the three-year total of illegal immigrants to ten million—a number equivalent to the population of Greater London or Greater Chicago.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">But these are just numbers. Who are these people? They are internationally diverse: 45 percent come from 170 countries outside the traditional origin countries of Mexico and Central America. Many are unaccompanied minors: 448,000 to date. More than 330 as of November 2023 are on the FBI’s terrorist watch list. Many are murderers, rapists, kidnappers, and violent criminals. More than a million have been lawfully ordered deported by judges in the U.S. but remain in our country regardless. The dismissal by the executive branch of our government of hundreds of thousands of cases of immigration law violations is unprecedented.</span></p><p class="p2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">It is worth noting some other firsts: Mexico’s crime syndicates and their paramilitary forces have never earned so much money from cross-border smuggling, and it is reported that their proceeds from human smuggling are surpassing those from drug smuggling for the first time. Never before have the Border Patrol’s 19,000 agents been ordered to abandon vast stretches of the border to conduct administrative intake duty. Never have so many immigrants died to take advantage of policies that all but guarantee quick release into the U.S. Never has our government explicitly refused to enforce immigration laws requiring detention and deportation of illegal immigrants on the grounds that those requirements are cruel and inhumane—instead adopting ad hoc policies aimed at providing “safe, orderly, and humane pathways” into the U.S. for illegal border crossers. And never has there been anything like the current conveyor-belt policy to distribute millions of illegals throughout the American interior.</span></p><p class="p2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span class="s2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This crisis is not the result of incompetence, but of purposeful policies. What is more, America’s establishment media has largely abdicated its duty to report on the crisis, refusing to acknowledge an event that is having a greater impact than almost any other in the world today. One can only assume that the reason for this is partisan bias: after all, the crisis can easily be traced to an identifiable moment in time—Inauguration Day 2021.</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span class="s1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Prior to that day, the Trump administration had brought the southern border largely under control using four key policies.</span></span></p><ol style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7em 0px 0.3em 1.143em; vertical-align: baseline;" type="1"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><ol style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: outside lower-roman; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7em 0px 0.3em 2.143em; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="p4" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="s1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Diplomatic Big Sticks: The U.S. gained Mexico’s cooperation by threatening ruinous trade tariffs of up to 28 percent on Mexican goods. We gained the cooperation of Central American nations by threatening to freeze U.S. foreign aid. The cooperation of these countries consisted of two things: accepting deported illegals from the U.S. and using their military and police to block incoming immigrants at their own borders.</span></span></li><li class="p4" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="s1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Remain in Mexico: Border Patrol was required to return apprehended immigrants immediately to Mexico, where they had to wait out the long duration of asylum processing, rather than releasing them to disappear inside the U.S.</span></span></li><li class="p4" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="s1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Safe Third Country: Immigrants who had passed through designated “safe third countries” (including Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico) on their way to the U.S. without applying for asylum in one of those countries were automatically deported with no chance to claim asylum in the U.S.</span></span></li><li class="p5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="s1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Title 42: This pandemic-control health order required rapid deportations to Mexico, without the option to claim asylum, of all immigrants caught illegally crossing the U.S. border.</span></span></li></ol></li></ol><p class="p3" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">During the 2020 campaign, candidate Biden promised to undo Trump policies within the first 100 days, to include ending detention and deportation of illegal immigrants. On January 20, 2021, he began to follow through. Four new U.S. policies and a new Mexican law are the chief drivers of the immigration tsunami we see today.</span></p><ol style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7em 0px 0.3em 1.143em; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><ol style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: outside lower-roman; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7em 0px 0.3em 2.143em; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="p4" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The tariff threat against Mexico was withdrawn and full foreign aid to all Central American nations was restored, freeing these countries to end cooperation with U.S. efforts to stem illegal immigration. This marked the end of the Remain in Mexico policy.</span></li><li class="p4" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="s1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The Title 42 pandemic rapid expulsion policy was waived for most families with children under ten, for all unaccompanied minors, for pregnant women, and for many single adults from nations that would not accept deportees.</span></span></li><li class="p4" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Two days after the 2020 election, the Mexican government passed a law prohibiting the detention of families, pregnant women, and unaccompanied minors. It then released thousands of families from 58 Mexican detention centers ten days before President Biden took office.</span></li><li class="p4" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The Biden administration established an ad hoc Border Patrol turnstile honor system by which Title 42-exempted families and others were released into the U.S. with a promise to report back later; this catch-and-release approach came eventually to incorporate the aforementioned conveyor-belt policy, with Border Patrol delivering illegals to non-governmental organizations that would arrange bus and air travel to cities around the U.S.</span></li><li class="p5" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="s2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">To give the false impression of fewer illegal crossings, the Biden administration created an ad hoc system that allowed hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to use a cell phone app called CBP One to schedule “pre-approved” entries at border crossings and U.S. airports.</span></span></li></ol></li></ol><p class="p2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span class="s1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Those who seek to come to the U.S. illegally are rational actors. They are more willing to pull up stakes and come when they think the effort and expense will pay off. The typical cost for the dangerous journey is $10,000 per person paid to smugglers. Few will take the gamble when the odds are against them. It’s a different matter when the odds move dramatically in favor of success as they did in January 2021.</span></span></p><p class="p2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Toward the end of the Trump administration, Border Patrol used Title 42 to deport nearly 90 percent of apprehended illegals. The Biden administration immediately reduced that number to 60. By 2023, Title 42 deportations were down to 35 percent. And on May 12, 2023, the Biden administration formally ended Title 42, and with it all instant expulsions. U.S. intelligence had predicted that ending Title 42 would lead to between 14,000 and 18,000 crossings a day, and that prediction turned out to be right. As I recently reported, it appears that the Biden administration recently took steps to reduce these numbers—most likely in response to public outrage in an election year—though it remains to be seen how long this will last.</span></p><p class="p2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">It is too early to gauge the full impact of the ongoing settlement of millions of illegal foreign nationals in the U.S. We know that the initial financial cost is high—$400 billion, by one estimate, to feed, house, clothe, and resettle the illegals who have been allowed to stay. Then there is the burden placed on public school districts that have no choice but to take in millions of new children who often speak no English and whose educations are not commensurate with those of their schoolmates. It is probably not coincidental that hospital systems across the nation have fallen deep into the red since the great mass migration crisis began. And large cities across the nation are looking to Washington for help with unfunded and unexpected fiscal burdens reaching into the tens of billions to care for the hundreds of thousands showing up with hands out.</span></p><p class="p2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Expense, of course, is only one part of the equation in terms of impact. Public safety, criminal justice, and national security systems face unprecedented new burdens as the personal histories and criminal backgrounds of most of the millions allowed easy entry are unknown and, often, unknowable. Some percentage will commit crimes and—in addition to the often horrendous effects on the victims of their crimes—increase the load on our already over-burdened courts and prisons. One prays not, but some may also commit acts of terrorism. Last but not least, this great influx will increase joblessness and put immense downward pressure on wages for American workers.</span></p><p class="p2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span class="s2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">It is not rocket science to figure out how to solve the immigration crisis. Nor is it hard to tell whether a politician is serious when he proposes a solution—one can simply ask whether the proposal will increase or decrease the odds that an aspiring illegal immigrant will decide to make the significant effort and financial sacrifice. For instance, in the ongoing standoff in Texas, placing razor wire at the border as the Texas Governor ordered done will clearly decrease the odds, and removing the razor wire as the Biden administration seeks to do will increase the odds. Similarly, any politician who proposes a solution that begins by granting amnesty to illegals currently in the U.S. is increasing the odds and not serious.</span></span></p><p class="p3" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span class="s1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">There are two essential steps we must take to begin to solve the border crisis:</span></span></p><ol style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7em 0px 0.3em 1.143em; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><ol style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: outside lower-roman; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7em 0px 0.3em 2.143em; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="s2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Enforce current immigration law, specifically the requirements under the Immigration and Nationality Act to detain and deport illegal entrants.</span></span></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="s2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Restore the threat of trade tariffs on Mexican goods to ensure Mexico’s cooperation with reinstituting the Remain in Mexico policy, forcing asylum seekers to stay in Mexico while their asylum claims are processed.</span></span></li></ol></li></ol><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 1.6em; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span class="s2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="s1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Three additional steps will help to solve the problem:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span></p><ol style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7em 0px 0.3em 1.143em; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><ol start="3" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: outside lower-roman; margin: 0px; padding: 0.7em 0px 0.3em 2.143em; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Withdraw from the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees treaty, which requires the U.S. to meet outdated standards for handling asylum claimants; then institute an asylum law that ends the current catch-and-release system and requires that an asylum claim first be made in a suitable departure or transit country, such as Mexico.</span></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="s2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Put diplomatic and financial pressure on Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, and Mexico to implement their own policies of detention and deportation of foreign nationals who are in those countries illegally.</span></span></li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px 0px 0.7em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="s2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Close loopholes in U.S. immigration law such as the <i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Flores </i>Settlement Agreement—which circumvents Immigration and Nationality Act requirements for detention and deportation during asylum claims and forces the release of asylum-seeking families within 21 days—and the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008, which requires the quick release of immigrant minors if they are from anywhere but Mexico.</span></span></li></ol></li></ol><p class="p2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span class="s1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Our politicians know these actions are the ones needed. The problem is not a lack of knowledge but a lack of political will. Too many of our elected leaders have selfish reasons to let the border crisis continue, no matter what their constituents demand. Whether they will be able to continue in their inaction is in the hands of the American people.</span></span></p></div><div style="color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>###</b></span></div><div style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #333333;"><div style="color: #222222;"><div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Credit Line:</b> <i>"Reprinted by permission from Imprimis, a publication of Hillsdale College."</i> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The above article is from the January 2024 issue of Imprimis. <span style="color: red;"><b><a href="http://lp.hillsdale.edu/imprimis-print/?utm_source=imprimis_sidebar" style="color: #1a00ff; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Get your FREE print subscription to Imprimis now!</a></b></span> (click link to go to the Imprimis subscription webpage).<span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">______________________</span></div><div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Join the Resistance</b>, Subscribe to Tim Gamble <b><a href="https://follow.it/tim-gamble?action=followPub" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">by clicking here</a></b> and by following me on social media:<br /></span><ul style="line-height: 1.4; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="border: none; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Gab = <a href="https://gab.com/TimGamble" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>https://gab.com/TimGamble</b></a></span></li><li style="border: none; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Twitter = <a href="https://twitter.com/TimGambleSpeaks" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>https://twitter.com/TimGambleSpeaks</b></a></span></li></ul></div></div></div></div><p style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8837176237537042878.post-40854269137570277592024-02-13T14:30:00.001-05:002024-02-13T14:30:00.137-05:00Houston Church Shooter Identified By Police As A Transgender <div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">By Tim Gamble</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;">Join the Resistance! Subscribe by email (</span><b style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://follow.it/tim-gamble?action=followPub" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">click this link</a></b><span style="color: #222222;">)</span> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;">Houston church shooter has been identified by police as a transgender (female to male) with a long criminal history.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;">According to The Epoch Times, "</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;"><i>A shooter who was killed by off-duty police officers after opening fire at a Houston megachurch while seemingly using a 7-year-old child as a human shield has been identified as a woman named Genesse Moreno, who police said also identified as a man named Jeffrey Escalante.</i>"</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;">Last year in Nashville, TN, a mass shooting was carried out at a private school by a transgender. In 2022 in Colorado Springs. CO, a mass shooting at a nightclub was carried out by an individual identifying as "non-binary" according to his lawyers. </span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">--------------------------------</span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/42Dx6KW" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="979" data-original-width="1500" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivijJChaIc8IqfDnmF8g5wNHXGWWueOki8ClFCuU4lCYi8aqPuuvhlglR902kOqcLiS98sxSK1ZiAAWJ8YFsPaFdLn7Oy8cRVTJ39S8s7togK_9jXJBEAnEBdTpNsIR-UQWW0fNl4cs0EQGxNeJvIvgo533Qam0j-phyT6X36ltpkArOpa-WnC3ka5y9o/w200-h131/81UsiSPQLIL._AC_SL1500_.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="color: #333333;">Ad: </span><a href="https://amzn.to/42Dx6KW" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Air Force Survival Knife by </span></a></b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><b><a href="https://amzn.to/42Dx6KW" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Ontario Knife Company</span></a></b><span style="color: #222222;"> - A high-performance fixed-blade survival knife tested and proven by military, law enforcement, hunters and survivalists around the world. 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Subscribe by email (</span><b style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://follow.it/tim-gamble?action=followPub" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">click this link</a></b><span style="color: #222222;">)</span> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">You could be confronted by the Leftist Mob anywhere. But, you will be much more likely to experience civil unrest anywhere the Left is known to congregate: large cities and urban areas, centers of political power, "blue" states and cities, in large corporations, in public schools, and at university & college campuses across the country. Also, businesses that you know to be run by Leftists and/or frequented by them. Be aware of your own workplace. Is your your boss a Leftist? What about human resources and upper management? Your co-workers? Be aware, and adjust accordingly.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The opposite is also true. Less likely places to experience civil unrest and the Leftist Mob are small towns and rural areas, "red" states and cities, and small businesses, particularly those run by more politically and socially conservative folks. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Although riots often occur spontaneously in response to a particular event, we have seen a sharp rise in organized, pre-planned political violence, often funded through layers of shady organizations to hide the real organizers and their real (typically political) motivations. These organizers will only be emboldened or grow more desperate, depending on the November election's outcome, so expect this trend towards organized political violence to not only continue, but to grow. The good news is that such organized violence is often predictable, if you pay close attention to the local news and events in your area. Stay aware, and stay safe. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><div><span style="color: #303030;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">-------------------------</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #303030; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/49egNGt" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #29aae1; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="285" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF-9zN7FojSlVi5ctXfeCGFHvDAcvnDiq7q7wD6eeuCIW620mEraPXfgILjIpz8_Fhxc_nnXP9lTvyXsHTOGP-hA9n4ZHAJ76t7Q2BBnhHwbfBk-4EXJOcdZE-f644VIKVe52ebYJGTMh_hncvZQXL6yO0eRfAYXSKKJr6etZ0lTVENqj5k1ZAl-mHrIM/w178-h200/71xei9S-2wL._AC_UL320_.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 20px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="178" /></a></div><span style="color: #303030;">AD: </span><a href="https://amzn.to/4bncQkX" style="color: #29aae1; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Gun Safes on Amazon</span></a><span style="color: #303030;">. </span></b><span style="color: #303030;">Various sizes and styles available. 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Let’s start with the political dynamic here. So you saw this play out over the last two weeks. McConnell and a few other Republican leaders come out and say ‘we’ve got this great piece of bipartisan policy’ when in reality the bipartisan border policies you’ve talked about, we’ve talked about, was a disaster.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“So step two is then to say, ‘well, we can’t advance this great piece of policy.’ Why can’t we advance this policy? Because of Donald Trump, because of the MAGA Republicans in the House and because of their allies in the Senate. So you do this two step where you say that Democrats have done a great job on policy and then immediately turn around and say it’s Donald Trump’s fault that this great policy is not passing…</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“The establishment’s obsession with funding Ukraine will force them to throw Donald Trump under the bus again and again and again. This will be a nonstop rinse-and-repeat news cycle where every time the Republican Party gets close to standing on principle and beating back $61 billion of Ukraine funding, you will have the Republican establishment singing the praises of Democrats and then attacking our nominee…</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“We cannot let these guys, in the interest of Ukraine, destroy our nominee, create a constant civil war within the Republican Party, depress our voters, all so that you guys can get $61 billion for Ukraine…I’ve never seen the level of emotion from my even Republican colleagues about this fight for Ukraine, as I have over any other issue…There are some Republicans for whom Ukraine is the most important issue confronting the country. And I just say, even if you’re pro Ukraine funding, and obviously I’m not, don’t we have ten more important issues confronting this nation, between the border problem, the debt problem? Why are we so obsessed with this? It is a fetish, Steve. I can’t pretend to understand it.”</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Senator Vance on the impeachment trap set by the supplemental funding package:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“In the Ukraine First funding bill, there is funding that is mandatory through 2026. If Trump wins, as I hope he will, he’s going to be President on January of 2025. So what happens if Donald Trump decides to force Ukraine to go to the negotiating table? What if he releases some of the money but not all of the money What if he decides to do what a president has to do, which is conduct diplomacy?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“Steve, you heard it here first. They will impeach him under this legislation that may very well pass tonight out of the United States Senate. I cannot repeat this enough, The Washington Post has already reported that the purpose of the legislation is to control Donald Trump.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“So what they’re trying to do is create a dynamic where if Trump follows his own campaign promises, Steve, they’re going to say it’s illegal and we have to impeach you. It’s maybe reason number one why we’ve got to kill this legislation. We cannot pass a law now that ties Trump’s hands in 2026 and gives Democrats an excuse to impeach him. But that’s what way too many Republicans are talking about doing.”</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Source:</b> Press Release by Senator Vance's Office dated 2-12-2024</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">--------------------------</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Join the Resistance! Subscribe to this website by email (</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a href="https://follow.it/tim-gamble?action=followPub" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">click this link</a></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">)</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> </span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8837176237537042878.post-43050869343778980732024-02-12T08:00:00.001-05:002024-02-12T08:00:00.157-05:00Using Situational Awareness and the OODA Loop To Survive Civil Unrest and Political Turmoil<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">By Tim Gamble</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;">Join the Resistance! Subscribe by email (</span><b style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://follow.it/tim-gamble?action=followPub" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">click this link</a></b><span style="color: #222222;">)</span> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Situational Awareness is essential in dealing with civil unrest and political turmoil. Much more than just being aware of your surroundings, situational awareness means both knowing what to look for, and how to assess (make decisions about) your surroundings.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The end goal for situational awareness is correct action. The bridge from simply paying attention to taking correct action is the OODA Loop. OODA Loop is an acronym for Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act. The Loop aspect is that one should be constantly looping through OODA since situations and circumstances change constantly. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The OODA Loop Explained</span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Observe: </b>Paying attention to the environment in which we are operating, noting potential threats and opportunities, in order to quickly gain the knowledge and understanding we need for decision making. Key concept: Observing should be continual, as our environment is constantly changing. <br /><br /><b>Orient: </b>The orient phase is where you apply your mental models to what you observe, in order to arrive at your understanding of your situation. Mental models are the way we understand the world; the system by which we think. This is perhaps the most complex, and critical, part of the OODA Loop. It is not the one with the most information that wins, but rather it is the one with the best understanding of the information they have that wins.<br /><br />Economist Richard J. Maybury explains models this way: "<i>As we go through life, we build these very complex pictures in our minds of how the world works, and we are constantly referring back to them - matching incoming data against our models. That's how we make sense of things.</i>"<br /><br />Many things contribute to the models we use - our family influences, cultural heritage, religious beliefs, education, training, personal experiences, and so forth. The key to orienting our understanding is to develop many mental models and to constantly refine or improve those models in a process Boyd calls "destructive deduction" - the examining, tearing apart, and rebuilding of those models. This process leads to improving your judgement.<br /><br /><b>Decide</b> - In the decision phase of the OODA Loop, you determine your best course of action based on your your judgement (using your mental models) of your observations. For example, you might decide to continue walking down the street because you observe no potential dangers. Or you may decide to cross over to the other side or even go back based on your judgement that the two thuggish-looking men eyeing you as you approach are potentially dangerous. <br /><br /><b>Act </b>- In the action phase, you do something (take an action) based on the decision you made using your judgment of your observations. That action may be continuing to do what you were doing, or it might mean taking a new or different action. <br /><br />Act is not the last phase of the OODA Loop (remember, the concept is OODA <u><b>Loop</b></u>, meaning you constantly loop through the phases). You may need to adjust your action based on changing circumstances. For example, when you cross the street to avoid those two thuggish-looking men, you may need to immediately take another action if they then cross the street, too, in order to intercept your path.</span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><div style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">-------------------------------</span></div><div style="color: #222222;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3yehcIx" style="clear: left; color: #1118cc; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="333" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS9gS7A-c2weS8u8g25kq1ntaPb3-jD25XtQG8q2SpO0L7GFcL25GDPovwZQFdZ5zlVROAmx-QrYNwRDO1Edfv1amFVtb-t8uMktR4zLLn60Gy1xSsujcv6QSYkUFNHWoP4o9E6mKap2jw2cXIu7iH80-lSmVphXnwcnwLWsrRvrqW0IUPS1ujTEAW/w134-h200/51MliW8wRzL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="134" /></span></a></div></div><div style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>AD: </b><b><a href="https://amzn.to/3yehcIx" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Total Resistance</a></b> - The classic study on resistance & underground operations, by Swiss Major H. von Dach. Recommended by Pastor Joe Fox (aka Viking Preparedness). </span></div><div style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>AD: <a href="https://amzn.to/3mugnsI" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Resistance Operating Concept (ROC)</a></b> - Another great resource for resistance & underground operations. Recommended by both Pastor Joe Fox (aka Viking Preparedness) and Bear of Bear Independent. </span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8837176237537042878.post-87233524041604338552024-02-11T15:06:00.000-05:002024-02-11T15:06:42.940-05:00Farmers' Protests Spreading Across Europe, Australia<div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><b style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">By Tim Gamble</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222222;">Join the Resistance! Subscribe by email (</span><b style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://follow.it/tim-gamble?action=followPub" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">click this link</a></b><span style="color: #222222;">)</span> </span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In recent years, the "solutions" to climate change that our overlords are enacting have become increasingly anti-agriculture. Farmers are being punished, and increasingly forced out of business, resulting in much higher food prices for us regular folks. Farmers are starting to protest, and the protests are especially growing in Europe. A fact that the mainstream news media is largely ignoring. Here are some headlines and videos that you may be interested in:</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;">[Epoch Times] </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #333333;"><b><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/farmers-in-eastern-and-southern-europe-protest-against-eu-agricultural-and-climate-policies-5584566" target="_blank">Farmers in Eastern and Southern Europe Protest Against EU Agricultural and Climate Policies</a></b></span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #333333;">[BNN] </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #333333;"><b><a href="https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/274121847/thousands-of-polish-farmers-strike-block-ukraine-border?utm_source=feeds.bignewsnetwork.com&utm_medium=referral" target="_blank">Thousands of Polish Farmers Strike, Block Ukraine Border</a></b></span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #333333;">[EuroNews] </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #333333;"><b><a href="https://www.euronews.com/2024/02/09/hungarian-and-polish-farmers-stage-protest-on-border-with-ukraine" target="_blank">Hungarian and Polish farmers stage protest on border with Ukraine</a></b></span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #333333;">[Epoch Times] </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #333333;"><b><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/europe-protests-gather-steam-as-spanish-farmers-block-roads-nationwide-5582464" target="_blank">Spanish Farmers Block Roads Nationwide as Europe Protests Gather Steam</a></b></span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #333333;">[Epoch Times] </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #333333;"><b><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/acquisition-process-for-land-to-build-wind-turbines-is-unfair-farmer-5581488" target="_blank">Farmers Protest Against Land Acquisition for Wind Turbines</a></b></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Survival Lily Video: This makes my blood boil! </b>Survival Lily recently did a video related to this topic that is worth watching. Here is the link to her video on YouTube: <b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AgJtUB3u94">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AgJtUB3u94</a></span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: #333333;">2023 Documentary: </b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333;"><b>No Farmers No Food: Will You Eat The Bugs? </b>The Epoch Times last year released the documentary </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/nofarmersnofood-5390883?ea_src=frontpage&ea_med=top-news--0-large-top-news--title-0" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">No Farmers No Food: Will You Eat The Bugs?</span></a><span style="color: #333333;"> The documentary exposes "</span></span><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #262626; letter-spacing: -0.4px; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;">the hidden agenda behind global “Green Policies,” the untold stories of farmers forced out of business, the disruption this will have on our food supply, and why edible bugs are suddenly being pushed to the fore as a "Global Green Solution."</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4px; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.4px; white-space-collapse: break-spaces;">Subscribers to The Epoch Times can watch it for free. 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Subscribe by email (</span><b style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://follow.it/tim-gamble?action=followPub" style="color: #1118cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">click this link</a></b><span style="color: #222222;">)</span> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><ol><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Avoid the Riot - </b>Seems oblivious that the best way to survive a riot is to not be in or near one. Areas likely to experience rioting and looting are large cities and urban areas, in particular inner city areas and near "bad" neighborhoods, or near university and college campuses. Areas much less likely to experience riots include small towns and rural areas. </span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Move Away from the Riot -</b> If a riot breaks out near you, leave the area immediately. If you are at work or university, go home. If your boss doesn't like it, tell him to kiss your a**. That job isn't worth your life. If the riot breaks out near your home, bug out immediately (could be time to visit Grandma in the country for a few days). You should already be packed, have a plan of where to go, and a full tank of gas to get you there. </span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Hide/Shelter In-Place - </b>You waited too long, hoping the riot wouldn't come near you. Foolish, but okay. It happens. Your best bet may be to hide and shelter in place. You should always have some water, some food (power bars, etc.), a flashlight, a fully-charged phone, a battery-powered radio. and a <a href="https://www.refugemedical.com/?sca_ref=3918033.4ftvoHMdig" target="_blank"><b>first aid kit including tourniquet</b></a> with you (and know how to use them). Stay alert, and be ready to run if needed. </span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Self-Defense - </b>Self-defense is always a last resort. It means you have failed to avoid the situation. It means you may have to take a life. It definitely means your life is in grave danger. And in a riot situation, you will almost certainly be greatly outnumbered. Not a good situation to be in. You are armed and well-trained, right? </span></li></ol><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Note: </b>This is why it is important to be armed and well-trained. Well-trained means more than just target practice - you need to take a good defensive shooting course (or several). So, if it is legal to carry where you are, please seriously consider doing so. Know and obey the laws, get all the proper licenses and permits, get well-trained, and practice gun safety, of course. 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