Prepping – The Suburban Redoubt

Disunion, Union, Preachers and Doers

A Gray Man — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 17:03:41 +0000

Only dead fish follow the stream -old Scandinavian expresion It has been a while since my last post but I have been pretty distracted, I must admit. In this post I focus on some psychological lessons I have learned watching the past couple of weeks. This are lessons I already knew but the past few …

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Decoupling

A Gray Man — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 15:58:14 +0000

These articles and others like them that have been making the rounds have been spinning around my head in recent weeks: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/cheap-manufacturing-be-damned-sentiment-builds-for-moving-u-s-companies-out-of-china In short, decoupling basically means in practice a shift away from international supply chains. These chains emerged in part because outsourcing to foreign nations has some advantages: cost savings, technology transfer, etc. But …

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Guns 101: Part 2

A Gray Man — Fri, 20 Mar 2020 01:47:08 +0000

In the last post we learned some basics about guns. In this post we begin a discussion of half of the gun equation: ammunition. There are a stunning number of options in the world of ammunition. Most ammunition is designed with a specific kind of performance and/or mission in mind. I can’t cover all ammunition. …

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An inflection point?

A Gray Man — Mon, 16 Mar 2020 02:13:06 +0000

Saw this today: Well, I don’t know if that title is how I would put it. But it does seem like we might be at a kind of inflection point, where an idea that had currency in a small minority, prepping, begins to achieve wider acceptance. To be sure, the people clogging Costcos right now …

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Covid-19 and society

A Gray Man — Fri, 13 Mar 2020 00:18:24 +0000

This evening the local news had a special on covid-19. An economist opined that this could cause a recession. On the other hand, if there was some good news, such as a fall in cases in Italy, it could rally people’s spirits and make them think everything was going to be alright. I got stuck …

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News: A trailer

A Gray Man — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 14:40:08 +0000

So people are fighting over rotten food on one of the cruise ships: https://nypost.com/2020/03/09/people-fighting-over-rotten-food-on-coronavirus-stricken-grand-princess-cruise-passenger/ It’s like a trailer for the movie “SHTF”. And to think this is a crisis where there actually is food available.

Guns 101: Part 1

A Gray Man — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 00:18:03 +0000

Guns are a key part of being prepared. If there is a major disruption they can be an essential source of security and food. This leads to my 12th rule of prepping: Rule 12. Slaves and the dead are unarmed This sounds harsh and intentionally so. You don’t want to be unarmed two months into …

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News: Judge Not, Finger Wavers

A Gray Man — Sun, 08 Mar 2020 16:37:06 +0000

Today I ran across this Tweet: The dog whistle target of this Tweet and the comments that follow should be clear enough to anyone who has witnessed our increasingly savage culture wars. In case it wasn’t, one of the comments provided a helpful re-Tweet that translates this for the Bible thumpers among us: After seeing …

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News

A Gray Man — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 13:15:11 +0000

So, apparently, ammo.com is experiencing a surge in sales in the last couple of weeks: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ammunition-sales-soar-response-coronavirus-133400231.html North Carolina and Georgia lead the pack with 179% and 169% percent increases, but other states notable jumps include Pennsylvania (140%), Texas (128%), Florida (76%), Illinois (67%), New York (48%) and Ohio (40%). I suspect the absolute increases were …

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Of masks and men

A Gray Man — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 01:20:59 +0000

I am going to talk about prepping in part through a series of rules or guidelines that have informed my prepping. In my last post I introduced my number one rule (“Be the gray man”) because…hey, it’s the number one rule. And now I’ll skip to one of the last rules on my list, because …

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