It's that time of day again. The time I try getting on my blog writing page. After about a half an hour I have made it. Persistence pays off in that respect. I get on my web-mail page on my wife's computer but I cannot put any comments on my blog without making her machine become MY machine and it is not worth the hassle. Her machine has Vista and it is mental, if you catch my drift. I cannot for the life of me see what anyone has Vista as their operating system. Talk about screwy! But why should Bill Gates care? He has many billions of dollars and doesn't see the end of it in sight. But hey, Bill, I see the end of it and I would advise you to get into Gold and Silver and storage food. I would also get the hell out of the state of Washington and get over to Idaho or Montana. There is a big attitude change when you cross those state lines. Talk to Ted Turner. He can probably sell you a nice chunk of Montana if you like. Ted is also the largest private landholder in the USA. I think the Queen of England might be the biggest landholder on the continent but you would not want to live on most of her land. It's cold and lonely up there.
The news is alarming in what it is not telling us. If you want to know who the short movie stars are it is easy to find but if you want to know what the fedgov is up to it is next to impossible. But you can think along the path of bank holidays and new currencies and selling out to foreign governments and foreign central banks and you will probably be close to where things are happening right about now. Do not ever consider anything but that the fedgov is out to screw us. Every chance they get. Third parties will be the style in the coming election. And why not? Who could vote for a democrat or a republican? They have sold us out and stuck it in us.
The politicians are getting tired of running in elections. They act like they don't see the sense in it. They figure they know everything and there is no reason to replace them. And that is where they're at. But that is dangerous in the extreme. Can you imagine the salaries they would vote themselves? Can you imagine the anti-gun legislation that would be enacted? Can you imagine Obama gleefully dancing a jig at the thought of all the crap he could then pass? Better to have no government than a non-elected pack of scum bags. But when the time comes we will have our own governments and they will serve us well. No more liars and con artists. We'll go straight down the road and get used to being hated by the PTB who still have some power. But the air will be cleaner in that day. Not too many lies polluting the atmosphere.
Stay alive.
Michael
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Friday, January 8, 2010
COOKING ABILITY AND THEFT
Howdy folks and it's just me again wishing you a happy morning and some heat to get you through this nice 7 degree day we have started. It's colder than a well diggers ass in the Klondike out side. It sure is thrillin', or maybe I should more truthfully say chillin', to go outside and smoke a cigarette. But my $8 a carton cigarettes are doing their job of feeding my addiction. We will all quit these damn things in the years ahead, We will either run out of tobacco or we will go on to be with God. In either case we will quit and humanity will be the better for it. In the meantime the wife has started the breakfast and we will eat eggs and sausage pretty soon, if the electricity doesn't shut off. I still don't have my woodstove attached to the chimney downstairs. I raised 17 kinds of hell until I got that stove and I don't have it hooked up. Some prepper! But I have all of the stuff to do it and it can be done pretty soon if the need arises. I'm happy for that much.
I keep getting warnings about the dollar collapsing any day now. I wish to hell it would go ahead and do it. I'm getting tired of waiting. I was reading www.thecomingdepession.blogspot.com last night and he said that somehow the fedgov slipped 600 billion dollars into the stock market to get the numbers back up where they are now. It took 600 billion to restore 6 trillion in lost wealth to the market place. I sure hope The Big Fatcats and their cronies are enjoying all of that money we gave to them. Dirty thieving bastards that they are. But all things get straightened out in the end and I reckon this will also. Them ropes don't stay crooked when there is a body hanging from them. They straighten right out. I never thought I would see the day when our government would do such bullshit. It staggers the mind. This up-grade in the worth of the stock market will facilitate the theft of our pension funds in this country. The stocks start going up and the pension funds start buying and the fat cats start selling and there go the pension funds. Simple theft of the citizens money, plain and simple. Say good bye to your pension. See, the stocks are going to crash again but the big boys will be out of the market and the dumbass citizens will take the beating, again. But this could not have happened if our Obama government had not sanctioned it. Just remember this when the time comes. Voting time. Hanging time, What ever time suits your fancy. Just be ready. And then get to it with a vengeance. I personally don't have much to do with voting in the future. Who the hell wants to perpetuate this rotten system? I am looking off into the distance for something a little better.
That is all for today. Take care and stay alive.
Michael
I keep getting warnings about the dollar collapsing any day now. I wish to hell it would go ahead and do it. I'm getting tired of waiting. I was reading www.thecomingdepession.blogspot.com last night and he said that somehow the fedgov slipped 600 billion dollars into the stock market to get the numbers back up where they are now. It took 600 billion to restore 6 trillion in lost wealth to the market place. I sure hope The Big Fatcats and their cronies are enjoying all of that money we gave to them. Dirty thieving bastards that they are. But all things get straightened out in the end and I reckon this will also. Them ropes don't stay crooked when there is a body hanging from them. They straighten right out. I never thought I would see the day when our government would do such bullshit. It staggers the mind. This up-grade in the worth of the stock market will facilitate the theft of our pension funds in this country. The stocks start going up and the pension funds start buying and the fat cats start selling and there go the pension funds. Simple theft of the citizens money, plain and simple. Say good bye to your pension. See, the stocks are going to crash again but the big boys will be out of the market and the dumbass citizens will take the beating, again. But this could not have happened if our Obama government had not sanctioned it. Just remember this when the time comes. Voting time. Hanging time, What ever time suits your fancy. Just be ready. And then get to it with a vengeance. I personally don't have much to do with voting in the future. Who the hell wants to perpetuate this rotten system? I am looking off into the distance for something a little better.
That is all for today. Take care and stay alive.
Michael
Thursday, January 7, 2010
FEDGOV FORTS AND MEDICAL
Good morning to you all. It is snowing to be skin hell outside and I am thankful to be in where it is warm. I got a lot of comments on my post of yesterday. If you don't see the comments listed at the bottom of the post it is because I cannot put them up with this broke down computer. Just doing the best I can with what I have. A prepper all the way! I tell you, the concept of prepping makes you ready even if you aren't. The brain ball the rests of your neck is your most important prepper item and that is what will see you through. All trials and tribulations are tests. Pass the damn tests! I got some very interesting data over the phone line yesterday. It seems the fedgov is getting ready for some tests. Evidence has revealed that firehouses and police stations are being strengthened in North Carolina, that we know of. Firehouses are being remodeled or as you and I would say, "fortified", to hold 200 US troops in the event of an uprising of any kind. At least we will know where the troops are in case necessary actions should occur. Nothing like a little intel to make life easier. I asked why North Carolina was receiving such attention and I was told it was because of the vast amount of firearms in the state and the vast amount of disgruntled citizens. Apparently the fedgov does not like the way these numbers add up. Too bad, I say. I know for a fact that Delaware has some big new firehouses. I don't like Delaware very much. Too flat. Joe Biden is from Delaware and I would say he keeps the home state pretty well stocked up. Hey. You can have it, Joe. No offense to you guys in Delaware.
It seems you don't go to a bar any more and find a couple guys in the corner talking about their dislike of the fedgov. Now you find a dozen guys talking about it and they make no effort to hide themselves. Good for us, I say. The more the merrier. We have them out manned and out gunned. Nothing quite like having the odds in your favor.
Quite a lot of talk these days about medical proficiency and having it in our midst. A lady named Balleen, I think, has written about it on her page, Preparedness Pro. And this lady is giving top drawer advice. I really enjoy reading her posts. She is quite enlightening. And she has been hot on the trail of reminding people about medical preparedness. Couldn't pick a better time to bring the subject up if I was trying. If you don't have a medical person in your midst then you had better get one. Wounds and cuts and scrapes can become raging infections if not handled properly. Knowing one sickness from another will save a few lives, as in knowing the difference between a bad cold and some kind of flu. So let us try to get our medical needs covered as best we can. There is some good reading out there in the blogs. Catman is cranking out some exceptional posts these days. His blog on piracy today is a good one. He will tell you how to look for certain things. And he will tell you why.
So keep your heads up and your nose into the wind. We need to know what is coming and how to deal with it. Collapse in on the way and we may as well survive it. Stay alive.
Michael
It seems you don't go to a bar any more and find a couple guys in the corner talking about their dislike of the fedgov. Now you find a dozen guys talking about it and they make no effort to hide themselves. Good for us, I say. The more the merrier. We have them out manned and out gunned. Nothing quite like having the odds in your favor.
Quite a lot of talk these days about medical proficiency and having it in our midst. A lady named Balleen, I think, has written about it on her page, Preparedness Pro. And this lady is giving top drawer advice. I really enjoy reading her posts. She is quite enlightening. And she has been hot on the trail of reminding people about medical preparedness. Couldn't pick a better time to bring the subject up if I was trying. If you don't have a medical person in your midst then you had better get one. Wounds and cuts and scrapes can become raging infections if not handled properly. Knowing one sickness from another will save a few lives, as in knowing the difference between a bad cold and some kind of flu. So let us try to get our medical needs covered as best we can. There is some good reading out there in the blogs. Catman is cranking out some exceptional posts these days. His blog on piracy today is a good one. He will tell you how to look for certain things. And he will tell you why.
So keep your heads up and your nose into the wind. We need to know what is coming and how to deal with it. Collapse in on the way and we may as well survive it. Stay alive.
Michael
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
SELOUS SCOUT AND SURVIVAL
I quite readily stole this from Selous Scout this morning. I have seen it before but it never had the validity it does now. Or maybe I never had the brains to see what it all was about. Here it is.
*********
Something to Think About
About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government."A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury."
From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.
"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage.
Looks like we're somewhere between #6 and #8.
********
I feel very much that this is an accurate analysis of our position these days. Never doubt that the system boys are banking on this to be true. And never doubt for an instant that they don't know about it, cause they damn sure do. I remember when Bill Clinton was having difficulties in the legal area and it looked like his ass was in the quicksand. I read some of the things his lawyer was filing and they looked like they had been filed by any Patriot you might meet on the street. The bastards in Washington know exactly what is going on and where it all stands according to the constitution. They are just boiling the frog and they know all about that too. There are no surprises. What will surprise them will be the reaction of we the people when the SHTF. And the shit is going to hit the fan. Never doubt that. The natural way of things will render the treachery of the powers that be to dust. Printing money out of thin air and loaning it to banks for no interest cannot go on forever. The chickens DO come home to roost.
For there to be any kind of a recovery we have to have jobs. We have to make things for the market place that are necessary. This country does not do that any more. China makes stuff but how necessary it is can be debated. If you can't understand this kind of talk just take my word for the fact that the whole shootin' match is going up in smoke. If you have food it will be because you produced it or you got on the government tit and they let you have enough to stay alive. Eating well will be the privilege of the producers. To say this in simple terms, grow it or grovel. Grow or starve. And a lot of Americans will be on their knees before this all gets ironed out. Either become a producer or sew some extra padding on the knees of your trousers.
Then, of course, we must learn to deal with those who would put us on our knees involuntarily. This is not a big problem to solve. You shoot the bastards. A man has no business on his knees unless he is praying to God. Or digging roots for foods or cures. But we have the perverted folks in Washington who would greatly love to put you on your knees. This must be resisted at all costs. DO NOT EVER LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN ON YOUR KNEES. And that includes those who would steal you into poverty. If they can steal your food supply they can force you to your knees through hunger. I am married to a forager and that is a good thing. Food grows wild and we can eat it if we but know what to eat. Most of the time we have food stored away. If it gets taken we go looking. But we stay off of our knees. You do the same.
Wild game is a tasty and healthy way to eat. Good organic meat. Anything from a songbird to a Whitetail deer. It may be messy and troublesome to exist off of wild game but it sure beats the hell out of going hungry or getting on your knees.
When this system snaps it is going to be ugly. And I mean uglier that you have ever seen. Things will be happening that you never dreamed you would see in America. Stone buildings will be the style of the future. With gun ports at strategic locations. Built over a small spring if you can arrange it. Nothing like having a water source that the scabrous bastards can't get to and poison.
I'll close for now and wish you all a good day. Our day is full of snow. It has been predicted that we will get six inches of the white fluffy stuff today and tomorrow. The kids will like it.
Stay alive.
Michael
*********
Something to Think About
About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government."A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury."
From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship.
"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage.
Looks like we're somewhere between #6 and #8.
********
I feel very much that this is an accurate analysis of our position these days. Never doubt that the system boys are banking on this to be true. And never doubt for an instant that they don't know about it, cause they damn sure do. I remember when Bill Clinton was having difficulties in the legal area and it looked like his ass was in the quicksand. I read some of the things his lawyer was filing and they looked like they had been filed by any Patriot you might meet on the street. The bastards in Washington know exactly what is going on and where it all stands according to the constitution. They are just boiling the frog and they know all about that too. There are no surprises. What will surprise them will be the reaction of we the people when the SHTF. And the shit is going to hit the fan. Never doubt that. The natural way of things will render the treachery of the powers that be to dust. Printing money out of thin air and loaning it to banks for no interest cannot go on forever. The chickens DO come home to roost.
For there to be any kind of a recovery we have to have jobs. We have to make things for the market place that are necessary. This country does not do that any more. China makes stuff but how necessary it is can be debated. If you can't understand this kind of talk just take my word for the fact that the whole shootin' match is going up in smoke. If you have food it will be because you produced it or you got on the government tit and they let you have enough to stay alive. Eating well will be the privilege of the producers. To say this in simple terms, grow it or grovel. Grow or starve. And a lot of Americans will be on their knees before this all gets ironed out. Either become a producer or sew some extra padding on the knees of your trousers.
Then, of course, we must learn to deal with those who would put us on our knees involuntarily. This is not a big problem to solve. You shoot the bastards. A man has no business on his knees unless he is praying to God. Or digging roots for foods or cures. But we have the perverted folks in Washington who would greatly love to put you on your knees. This must be resisted at all costs. DO NOT EVER LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN ON YOUR KNEES. And that includes those who would steal you into poverty. If they can steal your food supply they can force you to your knees through hunger. I am married to a forager and that is a good thing. Food grows wild and we can eat it if we but know what to eat. Most of the time we have food stored away. If it gets taken we go looking. But we stay off of our knees. You do the same.
Wild game is a tasty and healthy way to eat. Good organic meat. Anything from a songbird to a Whitetail deer. It may be messy and troublesome to exist off of wild game but it sure beats the hell out of going hungry or getting on your knees.
When this system snaps it is going to be ugly. And I mean uglier that you have ever seen. Things will be happening that you never dreamed you would see in America. Stone buildings will be the style of the future. With gun ports at strategic locations. Built over a small spring if you can arrange it. Nothing like having a water source that the scabrous bastards can't get to and poison.
I'll close for now and wish you all a good day. Our day is full of snow. It has been predicted that we will get six inches of the white fluffy stuff today and tomorrow. The kids will like it.
Stay alive.
Michael
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
CATMAN, CELENTE, AND FOOD
7 degrees this morning. Kinda reminds me of old times. Everyone in the house is talking about how the cold has cut down on their smoking, since we don't smoke in the house. There is some good in most everything. If you want a good read this morning go to Catmans Litter Box at http://catmanslitterbox.blogspot.com/. Probably as good a blog as you will read today. I can get things like Catmans Litter Box because it's web address ends in .blogspot.com. Do not ask me why, but it is so.
The wife was running Lew Rockwell this morning and I got to listen to a bit of Gerald Celente and check out his predictions for 2010. His big move was to say that America is gonna get another attack of the magnitude of 9-11. Shucky durn Gerald, who couldn't figure that one out. We now hear of a THIRD guy at the airport where the crotch bomber got on the plane. This third guy went out an exit door and was not seen again. This was on an entrance level. They think they might have spotted him in a large crowd of people leaving the airport. So much for TSA and their people. I hear they get a real red attitude if you run them down. Well, apparently they are lower than whale shit on the bottom of the sea. Get red about that, punks.
I am prepared to fight whoever wants a little piece of me. And a little is all they are going to get. The taxes are coming on. The phone bill just went up for some bullshit reason. They don't come right out and say they want more money but they make it look like it has to be raised for some obscure fund we ain't never heard of. Bastards. Pretty soon we will be out of a phone and thus no internet. But if it has to be then it has to be. The dumbasses in Washington don't know that we already know about starving the beast. If we have to do without phone service then we will just do without. Then the perverts will not be able to snoop on our email and our phone calls. Poor babies.
One of Celente's predictions for 2010 has to do with the stimulus money running out. He says it is a foregone conclusion that it will run out and then what is America going to do? The federal reserve is loaning money at almost no interest as it is. When the stimulus runs out they have to come up with another scheme of some sort. Another plan that will fail. He says the problem is we produce so very little in this country that we have nothing to back our play if we COULD make a move. He mentioned that there were a billion and a half people in 1900 on this planet. Now there are five billion more people. Food is going to become a precious commodity and probably pretty quickly. I am thinking about starting a cannery where I live. 20 acres of beans and a few hogs will make a great big shipment of pork and beans. I'll bet I could make a lot of friends by providing such a product. Now all I have to do is figure out a cheap disposable container that will hold the stuff. It has to work and it has to be readily available. Can't be an engineering marvel from Silicone Valley. It has to be something a redneck from southern Indiana can come up with.
I'll go now. Take care and stay alive. It's cold outside!
Michael
The wife was running Lew Rockwell this morning and I got to listen to a bit of Gerald Celente and check out his predictions for 2010. His big move was to say that America is gonna get another attack of the magnitude of 9-11. Shucky durn Gerald, who couldn't figure that one out. We now hear of a THIRD guy at the airport where the crotch bomber got on the plane. This third guy went out an exit door and was not seen again. This was on an entrance level. They think they might have spotted him in a large crowd of people leaving the airport. So much for TSA and their people. I hear they get a real red attitude if you run them down. Well, apparently they are lower than whale shit on the bottom of the sea. Get red about that, punks.
I am prepared to fight whoever wants a little piece of me. And a little is all they are going to get. The taxes are coming on. The phone bill just went up for some bullshit reason. They don't come right out and say they want more money but they make it look like it has to be raised for some obscure fund we ain't never heard of. Bastards. Pretty soon we will be out of a phone and thus no internet. But if it has to be then it has to be. The dumbasses in Washington don't know that we already know about starving the beast. If we have to do without phone service then we will just do without. Then the perverts will not be able to snoop on our email and our phone calls. Poor babies.
One of Celente's predictions for 2010 has to do with the stimulus money running out. He says it is a foregone conclusion that it will run out and then what is America going to do? The federal reserve is loaning money at almost no interest as it is. When the stimulus runs out they have to come up with another scheme of some sort. Another plan that will fail. He says the problem is we produce so very little in this country that we have nothing to back our play if we COULD make a move. He mentioned that there were a billion and a half people in 1900 on this planet. Now there are five billion more people. Food is going to become a precious commodity and probably pretty quickly. I am thinking about starting a cannery where I live. 20 acres of beans and a few hogs will make a great big shipment of pork and beans. I'll bet I could make a lot of friends by providing such a product. Now all I have to do is figure out a cheap disposable container that will hold the stuff. It has to work and it has to be readily available. Can't be an engineering marvel from Silicone Valley. It has to be something a redneck from southern Indiana can come up with.
I'll go now. Take care and stay alive. It's cold outside!
Michael
Monday, January 4, 2010
FOOLS AND FOOD
Hey! My create blog page finally came up. I am so fortunate. What I am really fortunate about is having a wife who put an extra quilt over me and now I can sleep the sleep of the innocent and not freeze my ass off at night. In case you live off-planet, things have been a bit cold of late here on old Terra Firma in the northern hemisphere. But I fed cattle in the 90's and it seemed that the first two or three weeks of January were always a bitch. I bought ground corn for the extra energy it gave the beasties. They liked it. Had the mill put sorghum in it for good flavoring. Worked like a champ and the cows loved me. Not that it is a major thing to be loved by a cow but we all have to start somewhere. But the media is making a big thing of the cold weather. Perhaps the little darlings want to pay half of my heating bill for this month? You think so? Obama just got back from Hawaii. Must be nice to have vacations on island paradises. How come the president takes so many wonderful vacations? He always comes back to Washington and gets involved in a new series of problems. I think he will shut up about cap and trade for a few months. But he will have other things on the agenda to screw us with. It appears he will be opening a line of employment opportunities for our neglected sexual deviates. They will be running the full scale, full body scanners at the airports. In the interest of national security the observer of the scanner will be in a darkened room with one way glass so that no one can observe the observer. Life is getting better for perverts in this country.
The food thing may get to be serious next month. The weather people say that Florida could take a hit on it's orange crop come Wednesday. Let's see now...vegetables are going to slump in production because of some goddamn little fish that the environmentalists are in love with. See, I told you it was getting good for the perverts in this country. The South side of Asia did not have a good Monsoon season this year and the rice crop looks kinda bad. But I know that down in Stutgart, Arkansas, there will be plenty for this country, right? Stutgart is the home of our rice production in this country. And though Obama plays hell dealing with the hated capitalists of this country, he will agree to large rice purchases by China come hell or high water. And China will pay for the rice with Treasury bills of the highest magnitude. See how that works? Our dollar ain't worth a damn but it will buy food right out of our mouths. So our Oranges may flop, our vegetables may not get grown and our rice may get sold out from under us. What a plan. What leadership. Don't it make you feel like a warm glass of spit? otta go now. The machine is about to toss this out. Stay alive.
Michael
The food thing may get to be serious next month. The weather people say that Florida could take a hit on it's orange crop come Wednesday. Let's see now...vegetables are going to slump in production because of some goddamn little fish that the environmentalists are in love with. See, I told you it was getting good for the perverts in this country. The South side of Asia did not have a good Monsoon season this year and the rice crop looks kinda bad. But I know that down in Stutgart, Arkansas, there will be plenty for this country, right? Stutgart is the home of our rice production in this country. And though Obama plays hell dealing with the hated capitalists of this country, he will agree to large rice purchases by China come hell or high water. And China will pay for the rice with Treasury bills of the highest magnitude. See how that works? Our dollar ain't worth a damn but it will buy food right out of our mouths. So our Oranges may flop, our vegetables may not get grown and our rice may get sold out from under us. What a plan. What leadership. Don't it make you feel like a warm glass of spit? otta go now. The machine is about to toss this out. Stay alive.
Michael
Friday, January 1, 2010
FIGHTING AND SUCH
It is sort of a lonely day. Not many people up and about, so far. I have not heard of any rapes or murders so folks must have behaved themselves last night. So nothing to talk about in the way of juicy gossip.
Spent the better part of the afternoon watching Mel Gibson in 'The Patriot". I have noticed that in movies of this type that the guys fighting the battles are always looking for food and ammo. They are always looking to get re-supplied. Kinda makes me glad I am planning on NOT running out of ammo. The buzz words in the battles were aim small , miss small. That means have your rifle sighted in and make the shot with as much precision as you can muster. Like Patton said in the movie, you let that other sonovabitch die for HIS country. And I say never quit. Any time you get the chance to kill one of them, do it. Only if you are restrained because of operational security do you pass up the chance to kill one of the enemy. Tomahawks and Bowie knives have a place in your battle dress. You might have a modern up-to-date rifle or shotgun but to take out an opponent with low or no sound is a good thing sometimes. And at very close quarters it might save your life if you can get it done quickly. It is hard to teach tactics to people who will be fighting guerrilla warfare. The standard "L" formation is your most utilized ambush tactic. You start the ambush with the short leg of the L perpendicular to the direction your enemy is moving. The long leg of the L runs down the side of your enemies directional path. Generally the short leg guys set off the trap and the long leg guys pour it on and wipe the enemy out.
Guerrilla tactics call for treachery and subterfuge. You are allowed to lie and cheat as much as you wish in warfare. Do not pass up an opportunity to do either. If you are good enough to blow a guy's leg or arm off where his buddies can see it up close and personal, have at it. Nothing demoralizes enemy troops like seeing one of their own maimed for the rest of his life. It works on their mind something fierce. And that works to your advantage. You get them mentally screwed up and they will make mistakes and mistakes on your enemy's part means you are that much closer to victory. About 6 or 7 miles from here is a lot of Karst land. Karst is a geographic condition where Limestone is under the surface of the dirt and it dissolves and caves in under the surface and leaves a mostly round indentation in the earth, sometimes a hundred yards in diameter, but mostly less. If you can catch your enemy in a piece of Karst, or what the locals call a sinkhole, you just gather around the rim and pour it on. Ain't time to be using an L shaped ambush at that point.
Learn Boobie trapping. A Boobie trap will produce a casualty and you don't even have to be there. And producing casualties is what it is all about. If your enemy is from someplace a few thousand miles away, he can't take too many loses before he finds himself fighting attrition as well as other troops. Play dirty! Go burn their supply dumps. Turn their food into ashes and their fuel into bonfires. Make life as much of a living hell as you possibly can for them and don't take a bullet yourself. You will reap great benefits from these kind of tactics. Somebody once said that an army marches on it's stomach. If it don't get fed it loses strength rapidly. Shoot holes in all the water tankers you can't steal. Mess their routine up to the max. "No where to run, Baby, no where to hide" Let your enemy face this every day of his hopefully short existence. And don't fight at your homesite! Keep your fighting away from the women and kids. Keep it away from your roof tops where a stray bullet will cause a leak. Got patching material in case this happens? A leaking roof is a goddamn bummer and don't forget that. It can start the rapid deterioration of your home if it is not handled properly. Keep a few gallons of patching material on hand. You might not get to use it right away but it will be nice to have when the time for fixing comes.
As to your own casualties, get them to your sanctuary and patched up as quickly as possible. Make it a sworn duty to never leave a man in the field, even a dead man. Get the body to your private burial ground and get it buried and some words said about the everlasting soul of a man. This gives your people "closure" on a very difficult matter. As frequently as you can do it, get your men home and bunking up with their families as much as possible. You might not be able to accomplish this every night but it will be a blessing when it happens. But no matter what, do not let up on guard duty. Getting shot in your sleep is such disgraceful way to die.
I'll leave you now with a couple of thoughts from my youth. "Back at the ranch, Tonto, not recognizing the Lone Ranger disguised as a pool table, racked his balls." And "Tonto, not recognizing the Lone Ranger disguised as a burning cigarette, stomped his butt."
Stay alive.
Michael
Spent the better part of the afternoon watching Mel Gibson in 'The Patriot". I have noticed that in movies of this type that the guys fighting the battles are always looking for food and ammo. They are always looking to get re-supplied. Kinda makes me glad I am planning on NOT running out of ammo. The buzz words in the battles were aim small , miss small. That means have your rifle sighted in and make the shot with as much precision as you can muster. Like Patton said in the movie, you let that other sonovabitch die for HIS country. And I say never quit. Any time you get the chance to kill one of them, do it. Only if you are restrained because of operational security do you pass up the chance to kill one of the enemy. Tomahawks and Bowie knives have a place in your battle dress. You might have a modern up-to-date rifle or shotgun but to take out an opponent with low or no sound is a good thing sometimes. And at very close quarters it might save your life if you can get it done quickly. It is hard to teach tactics to people who will be fighting guerrilla warfare. The standard "L" formation is your most utilized ambush tactic. You start the ambush with the short leg of the L perpendicular to the direction your enemy is moving. The long leg of the L runs down the side of your enemies directional path. Generally the short leg guys set off the trap and the long leg guys pour it on and wipe the enemy out.
Guerrilla tactics call for treachery and subterfuge. You are allowed to lie and cheat as much as you wish in warfare. Do not pass up an opportunity to do either. If you are good enough to blow a guy's leg or arm off where his buddies can see it up close and personal, have at it. Nothing demoralizes enemy troops like seeing one of their own maimed for the rest of his life. It works on their mind something fierce. And that works to your advantage. You get them mentally screwed up and they will make mistakes and mistakes on your enemy's part means you are that much closer to victory. About 6 or 7 miles from here is a lot of Karst land. Karst is a geographic condition where Limestone is under the surface of the dirt and it dissolves and caves in under the surface and leaves a mostly round indentation in the earth, sometimes a hundred yards in diameter, but mostly less. If you can catch your enemy in a piece of Karst, or what the locals call a sinkhole, you just gather around the rim and pour it on. Ain't time to be using an L shaped ambush at that point.
Learn Boobie trapping. A Boobie trap will produce a casualty and you don't even have to be there. And producing casualties is what it is all about. If your enemy is from someplace a few thousand miles away, he can't take too many loses before he finds himself fighting attrition as well as other troops. Play dirty! Go burn their supply dumps. Turn their food into ashes and their fuel into bonfires. Make life as much of a living hell as you possibly can for them and don't take a bullet yourself. You will reap great benefits from these kind of tactics. Somebody once said that an army marches on it's stomach. If it don't get fed it loses strength rapidly. Shoot holes in all the water tankers you can't steal. Mess their routine up to the max. "No where to run, Baby, no where to hide" Let your enemy face this every day of his hopefully short existence. And don't fight at your homesite! Keep your fighting away from the women and kids. Keep it away from your roof tops where a stray bullet will cause a leak. Got patching material in case this happens? A leaking roof is a goddamn bummer and don't forget that. It can start the rapid deterioration of your home if it is not handled properly. Keep a few gallons of patching material on hand. You might not get to use it right away but it will be nice to have when the time for fixing comes.
As to your own casualties, get them to your sanctuary and patched up as quickly as possible. Make it a sworn duty to never leave a man in the field, even a dead man. Get the body to your private burial ground and get it buried and some words said about the everlasting soul of a man. This gives your people "closure" on a very difficult matter. As frequently as you can do it, get your men home and bunking up with their families as much as possible. You might not be able to accomplish this every night but it will be a blessing when it happens. But no matter what, do not let up on guard duty. Getting shot in your sleep is such disgraceful way to die.
I'll leave you now with a couple of thoughts from my youth. "Back at the ranch, Tonto, not recognizing the Lone Ranger disguised as a pool table, racked his balls." And "Tonto, not recognizing the Lone Ranger disguised as a burning cigarette, stomped his butt."
Stay alive.
Michael
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
