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I blog about nothing and everything...if it pops into my head it may end up here.. I'm not PC just so you know

And they say common core math is new......

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- September 23, 2015

Only this makes more sense

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HP Lovecraft

- August 31, 2019

I watched a video (about a RPG Call of Cthulhu) today where the person doing the video kept bringing up the fact that HP Lovecraft was a racist, and making it a reason not to like his work. OK HP was a racist, so what? So was everyone else at the time he lived, that doesn't make him evil or good it just makes him a product of his time. I get so incredibly tired of today's generations judging people who lived decades, even centuries ago by today's "standards". I'm sorry people, but everyone is sculpted by the times they live in, and for people today to judge them is no less bigoted than those they are judging. What HP was, is xenophobic in a clinical sense. He grew up in a broken home where his father died in a sanitarium from complications of syphilis. He was raised by a obsessive mother who in today's world would more than likely been diagnosed with Munchhausen syndrome. He was at the very least verbally abused, she referred to him as Ugly, Deformed, Hid...

Stick fighting for self defense, Suggested reading, free pdfs available online

- February 12, 2018

The Cane as a weapon by AC Cunnigham The Walking Stick Method of Self Defense by HG Lang Self Defense with a Stick by R&M Michael Self Defense with a Cane by Justin Bonnafous A Tool of History, A Weapon for the Present By Stephen F. Baker

Surviving the Apocalypse: Plan for long term survival

- July 23, 2015

While that 72 hr survival kit you picked up on the internet is really cool, in a apocalypse it's going to last exactly 72 hrs. Not a real great survival time. Things like space blankets, tube tents and survival bars are great for a short term crisis, not the end of the world as we know it. So when you are getting your kit together look for things that will be useful in the long term. This doesn't always have to cost a fortune, but it does take common sense and imagination. Instead of space blankets get some surplus wool ones. Instead of a Mylar tube tent pick up a couple of good quality tarps that you can use to make a shelter that will last weeks not days. Yes it will cost a few dollars more and it wont fit in your pocket but it might be the difference between 72 hours and life.