Avoid Bulletproof everyone

 In September, I ordered body armor in the form of a hoodie from Bulletproof everyone. After weeks of delays, broken promises, and more, I got the armor on October 5. Even though I measured properly, it didn’t fit. 

More calls and emails, including a cell phone conversation with the owner, and I was promised the correct size. It never came. I have disputed with my credit card processor, but I don’t hold out much hope. 

I can probably kiss that $250 goodbye. That is a shame. 

Lists again

 CNN is listing the names of American lawmakers that aren’t showing sufficient deference to our new Dear Leader. This is some tin pot dictatorship bullshit right here. So a sitting lawmaker who doesn’t call the Democratic candidate to congratulate him for winning an election that hasn’t even been officially ended yet deserves to be called to the carpet? This is the kind of thing you would expect from North Korea, not the United States. 

Recall that the last four years, #resist has been the war cry among Democrats. 

Fuck them. 

Also, the OAS claims that they sent 28 election observers to the US, and the only evidence found of voting irregularities in the election was REPUBLICAN poll watchers attempting to intimidate vote counters by standing too close to them. They also went forward with an implied accusation that Trump is in the wrong for attempting to claim fraud in the press instead of in court. Also, there was this quote (pdf warning):

Access to the vote is an important right for all persons. The Mission noted that citizens continue to be deprived of their franchise for a range of reasons, including the loss of voting rights following a felony conviction (even when convicted persons have served their sentences) and the revocation of rights of persons with intellectual disabilities.

I wonder if the OAS is as staunch defending the right of felons to own firearms…

I would point out that Luis Almagro is the Secretary General of the OAS. He is from Uruguay, a nation controlled by the Broad Front and the National Party, both being variations of communist political parties. 

Going even more woke

CBS will require 50% of casts of unscripted programs to be non-White next season in response to complaints that shows on the network are not “diverse” enough. 

This is pure horse hockey. According to the US census, the population of the United States is 76.3% white. One of the shows mentioned in the article is Big Brother. Here is this season’s cast:

So a total of 16 cast members. There is a black man and a black woman. Again, according to the census, blacks make up 13.4% of the US population, which would mean that 2 blacks out of 16 cast members would be representative of the US population. The cast seems to be fairly even. That isn’t good enough. 

I guess fair isn’t woke enough. This is why I don’t watch TV shows.

Democracy is a civil war prevention mechanism

 This is a great post about evidence. Let me give you a couple of quotes:

Now, let’s be clear here about what the word “evidence” actually means. It doesn’t mean “proof”. When a defendant is found not guilty, all the evidence against them doesn’t cease to exist; it is still evidence against them, which has been weighed and found not damning.

But the best quote of the entire post:

democracy is not primarily a decision-making mechanism. I mean, really, if you were setting out to design a good way of making good decisions, would you come up with democracy? Of course not. Because it’s laughably useless.

However, democracy is a very very good civil-war-prevention mechanism.

Truer words were never spoken. Once a people have decided that their vote doesn’t matter, they will resort to the only recourse left to them.
Read the whole thing, it is worth your time. For the last word of this post, I leave you with the words of John F Kennedy: 

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. 

Caching in

 When nuclear weapons were first invented, militaries all over the world had to adopt new tactics. When it became possible for a single bomb to destroy large amounts of military firepower, it became imperative for militaries to spread their forces over large areas, so that a single nuclear strike to destroy them all. 

The same tactic applies to individuals who are into preparedness. You don’t want one single event to destroy all of your preparations. Events like a hurricane, fire, riot, or government action may limit your access to (or destroy) certain supplies that you may have stockpiled. 

Now might be a good time to review how and where you store supplies. Maybe you can have backup storage locations where some of your stuff is hidden. Some of it can be on property you have access to. Maybe some can be cached in PVC and buried on public land that you can relocate in an emergency. If you DO decide to cache supplies on public land, make sure that they are either “ghost supplies” that have no serial number or finger prints on them, make sure that they are “off paper” supplies, or use some other method to ensure that the cache cannot be traced back to you in the event that someone else finds them.