SHTF Battle Rifle For Women

Incase of all out pandemonium and chaos, I am running a non scientific poll. Please look to the left and kindly vote. I will post results next week. Feel free to leave a comment as to your choice or for a line of discussion...

Doomsday Preppers on NatGeo Channel

Mark you calenders, because on Tuesday February 7th @9pm est. A new episode of "Doomsday Preppers" airs.The featured episode for that evening will be about a young woman who lives in a 700sq ft. apartment and is a prepper.

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/doomsday-preppers/

Preppers Article...a good read

So go grab yourself a cup of coffee this morning and prepare yourself for this article. I saw it on Drudge, and yes while I know it is a bit long, its worth the read.I have highlighted my favorite parts.

By Jim Forsyth

Sat Jan 21, 2012 11:44am EST

(Reuters) - When Patty Tegeler looks out the window of her home overlooking the Appalachian Mountains in southwestern Virginia, she sees trouble on the horizon.

"In an instant, anything can happen," she told Reuters. "And I firmly believe that you have to be prepared."

Tegeler is among a growing subculture of Americans who refer to themselves informally as "preppers." Some are driven by a fear of imminent societal collapse, others are worried about terrorism, and many have a vague concern that an escalating series of natural disasters is leading to some type of environmental cataclysm.

They are following in the footsteps of hippies in the 1960s who set up communes to separate themselves from what they saw as a materialistic society, and the survivalists in the 1990s who were hoping to escape the dictates of what they perceived as an increasingly secular and oppressive government.

Preppers, though are, worried about no government.

Tegeler, 57, has turned her home in rural Virginia into a "survival center," complete with a large generator, portable heaters, water tanks, and a two-year supply of freeze-dried food that her sister recently gave her as a birthday present. She says that in case of emergency, she could survive indefinitely in her home. And she thinks that emergency could come soon.

"I think this economy is about to fall apart," she said.

A wide range of vendors market products to preppers, mainly online. They sell everything from water tanks to guns to survival skills.

Conservative talk radio host Glenn Beck seems to preach preppers' message when he tells listeners: "It's never too late to prepare for the end of the world as we know it."

"Unfortunately, given the increasing complexity and fragility of our modern technological society, the chances of a societal collapse are increasing year after year," said author James Wesley Rawles, whose Survival Blog is considered the guiding light of the prepper movement.

A former Army intelligence officer, Rawles has written fiction and non-fiction books on end-of-civilization topics, including "How to Survive the End of the World as We Know It," which is also known as the preppers' Bible.

"We could see a cascade of higher interest rates, margin calls, stock market collapses, bank runs, currency revaluations, mass street protests, and riots," he told Reuters. "The worst-case end result would be a Third World War, mass inflation, currency collapses, and long term power grid failures."

A sense of "suffering and being afraid" is usually at the root of this kind of thinking, according to Cathy Gutierrez, an expert on end-times beliefs at Sweet Briar College in Virginia. Such feelings are not unnatural in a time of economic recession and concerns about a growing national debt, she said.

"With our current dependence on things from the electric grid to the Internet, things that people have absolutely no control over, there is a feeling that a collapse scenario can easily emerge, with a belief that the end is coming, and it is all out of the individual's control," she told Reuters.

She compared the major technological developments of the past decade to the Industrial Revolution of the 1830s and 1840s, which led to the growth of the Millerites, the 19th-Century equivalent of the preppers. Followers of charismatic preacher Joseph Miller, many sold everything and gathered in 1844 for what they believed would be the second coming of Jesus Christ.

Many of today's preppers receive inspiration from the Internet, devouring information posted on websites like that run by attorney Michael T. Snider, who writes The Economic Collapse blog out of his home in northern Idaho.

"Modern preppers are much different from the survivalists of the old days," he said. "You could be living next door to a prepper and never even know it. Many suburbanites are turning spare rooms into food pantries and are going for survival training on the weekends."

Like other preppers, Snider is worried about the end of a functioning U.S. economy. He points out that tens of millions of Americans are on food stamps and that many U.S. children are living in poverty.

"Most people have a gut feeling that something has gone terribly wrong, but that doesn't mean that they understand what is happening," he said. "A lot of Americans sense that a massive economic storm is coming and they want to be prepared for it."

So, assuming there is no collapse of society -- which the preppers call "uncivilization" -- what is the future of the preppers?

Gutierrez said that unlike the Millerites -- or followers of radio preacher Harold Camping, who predicted the world would end last year -- preppers are not setting a date for the coming destruction. The Mayan Calendar predicts doom this December.

"The minute you set a date, you are courting disconfirmation," she said.
Tegeler, who recalls being hit by tornadoes and floods in her southwestern Virginia home, said that none of her "survival center" products will go to waste.

"I think it's silly not to be prepared," she said. "After all, anything can happen."

My not so productive day....

Ive been sitting here staring at the screen, searching news worthy articles, and racking my brain for something profound to blog about today. I have the whole day alone until 530pm when I meet my crazy parents for dinner and get my boys from them. Senior is on a sleep over with friends tonight.
Today was a day I have a quietly looked forward to all week, a rare opportunity to have time alone.

My sister is turning 50, we are planning a surprise party for her, and I am secretly working on a memory album for her, people all across this country have written letters and sent in photos, and I have taken all that, laminated them and putting it in this special book. Every letter and picture has their own special page.  It is all scattered on my dinning room table, today was the day I was going to get it all finished. I was going to turn on some Sirius XM Hairnation channel, and work in peace.

However, I awoke with ringing in both ears, everything sounds muffled and I have absolutly no energy to do anything. So, I thought taking a shower would help...okay I get the shower and my beloved hair dryer burns up...it turned cherry red inside and smoke started coming out...  Isnt things like that suppose to happen on Mondays? So, upon Seniors advice to rest and relax- how did I end up spending my day? napping most of it away with the dog and cat. Maybe after a good seafood dinner with the kids and parents  I will come home, put a movie on for the boys,and finally do what today was intended for.....  One can only hope...    : )

Payback.....My Picture of the Day

Mike Rowe of "Dirty Jobs" and Skilled Labor

I love Mike Rowe of Discovery Channels "Dirty Jobs". If you have never watched, he highlights jobs that most people won't do. Recently he testified before a Senate Committee on the need for more "Skilled Labor" in our country. This is a little long, but worth watching. And I agree with him, how can we as a country promote more "shovel ready" jobs, when there are not enough skilled "shovel ready" workers...

Discriminatory ERB Process...a new petition

As most of you that follow my blog know, I am a veteran Navy wife, Senior retired in 2009 after serving for 20 years. The ERB situation with our current active duty military is something that is near and dear to my heart.

Our guys and girls are getting shafted by the very same country they fought to defend. If it wasn’t for people like them we probably wouldn’t have the freedoms we enjoy today.

Some 2900 + sailors with 5-15 years are being involuntarily separated. Why? Because of poor management by the Navy. They allowed the rates these guys and girls worked in to become overmanned. It wasn’t the sailors fault. What the Navy should do, is evaluate every rate not just certain ones. And evaluate these folks with high tenure who havent advanced in their selected rate.

There was a petition on whitehouse.gov. Most active duty were nervous about signing it because of repercussions from their commands, one case is a navy wife made comments to CNN and a few days later her husband was contacted by his command. So obviously the message is getting out.

We didn’t get the 25,000 signatures needed for the whitehouse.gov petition. Therefore Sailors against ERB has started a new petition..  You can sign and read about it at:

http://www.change.org/petitions/president-of-the-united-states-department-of-the-navy-us-congress-stop-the-discriminatory-erb-process-conducted-by-the-us-navy