Opting Out.

Posted by ligneus1 on Feb 18th, 2009 in Survival, Western Civilization | 8 comments A while back in an e-mail, Zee expressed an interest in finding a piece of land on which to live, grow vegetables and fruit, keep chickens and a couple of cows partly in order to become less dependent on government services and utilities. Well there is an interesting post and comments at Fresh Bilge on the subject and on opting out of the system as much as possible, lying low as some call it. Though I haven’t done much posting lately I think we bloggers are by definition ‘involved’ in our communities and our country and all without need of community organizers. We are ‘free...

Are You Prepared?

Posted by zee on Jul 29th, 2008 in Survival | 0 comments I often regret that I at one time found survivalists amusing. Now I wish to hell I had taken heed. I have been thinking of worse case scenarios a lot lately and realizing that, like thousands of Americans, I am screwed when it comes down to it. The following is an entry I found at SurvivalBlog.com, a place I’d highly recommend if you want to become conversant with survival. I truly envy this dude and there are probably quite a few like him. Most of us do not have the finances to stock up and hunker down. I do know that a good portion of my future income will go towards food, fuel, water and...