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Preppers: Meet the paranoid Americans awaiting the apocalypse
theweek.com ^ | July 12, 2015 | Rod O'Connor

Posted on 07/13/2015 8:20:26 AM PDT by PROCON

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To: Lazamataz
Laz, don't you think cannibalism is stretching things?

I WANT BRAINS!!!!

61 posted on 07/13/2015 11:27:58 AM PDT by PROCON (Wow! They're faster than Stalin.)
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To: Lazamataz

Laz, that was a disturbing photo so I went to the video. Who’d of thought this was a fight over a seat! So the old man went after the 28 yr, old with his teeth. What a bloody mess!


62 posted on 07/13/2015 11:43:41 AM PDT by caww
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

....”Prepping means that you don’t have to wait for the lights to come back on”....

That’s a fair way of expressing what prepping is to begin with I think. I was without water for three days after a frozen street pipe....ground was so frozen they had a tough time getting to it. That taught me to have a storage of “flush” water, especially over the winter.


63 posted on 07/13/2015 11:47:25 AM PDT by caww
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To: DuncanWaring
“Why not just call 911 and let the skilled professionals handle the problem?”

When seconds count, help is only minutes away.

64 posted on 07/13/2015 11:47:28 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.)
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To: Old Sarge

VFW....the veteran organization?


65 posted on 07/13/2015 11:48:34 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: caww
Part of my business in on-line.

Now granted if it truly was TEOTWAWKI my business would go away but in the mean time I have to keep things going.

Being able to continue with what I am doing without interruption or losing everything I did for the past several hours is worth the investment I made in equipment.

66 posted on 07/13/2015 11:55:45 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Then you surely must be prepared with equipment.


67 posted on 07/13/2015 12:03:00 PM PDT by caww
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To: Lee'sGhost

Yes, the same - a few like-minded folks and I were going to rent the hall for a prepper seminar - we were told FIRMLY that “preppers=militia=traitors”.

I don’t forget, nor do I forgive.


68 posted on 07/13/2015 12:03:25 PM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: PROCON
Laz, don't you think cannibalism is stretching things?

You know what the old song says, "You always eat the one you love...."

69 posted on 07/13/2015 12:03:29 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Love me like there's no tomorrow... because, hey, in New Vegas, you never know.)
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To: PROCON

The new BSA motto is: Sodomites camping in the woods with young, impressionable boys, just fabulous!


70 posted on 07/13/2015 12:17:10 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: caww
I have always likes Alton Brown's motto that “the only unitasker in my kitchen is the fire extinguisher."

It is true for preppers too. Most things you invest in should be of use currently and in the future.

71 posted on 07/13/2015 12:20:49 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: PROCON

I am scrapping all my fire extinguishers.


72 posted on 07/13/2015 12:22:31 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: AppyPappy; Bloody Sam Roberts

Exactly. First rule of prepping is don’t live in or near a city especially a dem city.


73 posted on 07/13/2015 12:29:06 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: Old Sarge

Note the emphasis on preppers being crazy, paranoid, etc. The soviet union used to label those who opposed the regime as such.

They’re just trying to marginalize the people they can’t control. As the soviets aptly demonstrated, food is a weapon. That weapon is useless if the people the weapon is to be applied to have plenty of food stockpiled.


74 posted on 07/13/2015 12:45:31 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat ( The ballot is a suggestion box for slaves and fools)
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To: AppyPappy

We have ten acres out in the country. Someone broke into our outbuilding this past weekend and stole all of my husband’s power tools. They hit the whole neighborhood. I’m afraid my husband and I always learn things the hard way. We obviously are not quite prepared enough. I’m mad about the tools but am grateful for the little lesson so we can make some changes quickly. It won’t do us any good to continue to prep if we’re just going to let people waltz onto the property and walk away with stuff. *sigh*


75 posted on 07/13/2015 12:58:24 PM PDT by samiam1972 ("It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."-Mother Teresa)
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To: samiam1972

That rots. Fortunately you probably won’t pay that “stupid tax” again.


76 posted on 07/13/2015 2:02:12 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat ( The ballot is a suggestion box for slaves and fools)
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To: RKBA Democrat

Nope! We’re looking into a layered line of defense! Alarm, fencing, dogs, etc. Guns won’t do us any good if we don’t know they’re out there! Way too close to the house full of kids, though. I really really am not happy about that!


77 posted on 07/13/2015 2:14:24 PM PDT by samiam1972 ("It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."-Mother Teresa)
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To: samiam1972

Might want to try some bees. Position them in front of the doors. Your average meth sucking idiot isn’t going to mess with them.

I’ve got a nasty, mean, and vicious hive I’m trying to figure out what to do with. Breed them as guard bees?


78 posted on 07/13/2015 2:39:21 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat ( The ballot is a suggestion box for slaves and fools)
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To: Pollster1

;)


79 posted on 07/13/2015 2:49:00 PM PDT by bgill ( CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: samiam1972
Geese.

They are very good to defend "their" property. They raise an alarm and they attack.

Also they taste good. :)

80 posted on 07/13/2015 2:52:25 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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