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During a debt and currency crisis, barter will probably be the most accessible form of local industry. The following is a list of examples of post-collapse skills and trade models that you could learn or construct within the next six months in order to ensure you are a sought-after partner in your own community when breakdown occurs: Fresh Water Storage And Filtration Solar Power Bank Seed Saving And Storage Gunsmithing Ammunition Production

The IRS is looking to hire a “diversity and inclusion” specialist, with a minimum salary of $123,758 a year...

I didnt search this,just got it 1st time.Passed it on. http://www.youtube.com/embed/dx5ZE5nE9X8?rel=0

In 1960, 5 percent of America's children entered the world without a mother and father married to each other. By 1980 it was 18 percent, and by 2000 it had risen to 33 percent. Today, the number is 41 percent. For blacks, out-of-wedlock births have gone from 25 percent in 1965 to 73 percent today. The ethnic group with the next-highest percent of births to unmarried mothers is that of Native Americans, at 66 percent. For whites, out-of-wedlock births stand at 29 percent. For Hispanics, out-of-wedlock births are at 53 percent...

Anna Gilligan (bn. 1981) is an entertainment reporter for Good Day New York, host at MeetTheBoss.TV, and the former host of Fast Track on FoxBusiness.com (as well as reporter/producer/web editor for Fox News).  Gilligan can be seen frequently on Red Eye with Greg Gutfeld, where she seems to lean to the right. Although Anna has described her parents as 'kind of hippy', the lifelong Brooklyn resident's father was in fact a District Attorney, so perhaps some influence there... More/video at Reaganite Republican_____________________________________ RedEye   FoxNY   Chickipedia   anchorbabes   iMDB   Wikipedia   twitter   facebook

In today's article from The LA Times, we get this startling admission regarding the Dems'Amnesty Bill: "...The GOP proposals would stop immigrants from making the transition to legal status until various border security and immigration enforcement goals are reached. Under the bill as written, a plan to halt 90% of all illegal crossings must be in operation before legal status is set in motion, but a security plan does not have to achieve that target. "Republican senators said the changes were needed to encourage action in the GOP-led House, where the conservative majority is less inclined to provide a route...

I have been thinking of late about the coming Fourth of July holiday. (AKA: Independence Day) With the current state of the nation and our daily loss of freedoms once guaranteed I don’t really feel like celebrating something we no longer have. It feels like going to a wedding anniversary dinner knowing the couple both cheat. So what to do? Not go out, ignore the day, throw my hands up and just go with the flow? None of these seem to be acceptable options. What about some form of protest to show the country and our “leaders” I will not...

Governor Palin tweeted an article over at Breitbart explaining that an audience member confronted Bill Maher for making fun of Trig Palin. Audience Member Confronts Bill Maher After Comic Slammed Sarah Palin's Special Needs Child shar.es/wLtXO via @breitbartnews— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) June 13, 2013 Hey bully, on behalf of all kids whom you hatefully mock in order to make yourself feel big, I hope one flattens your lily white wimpy a#*.— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) June 13, 2013 I'm in your neck of the woods this weekend, little Bill. Care to meet so I can tell you how I really feel?...

In what should be seen an a violent attack on the First Amendment’s freedom of the press clause, Rep. Peter King (R-NY) made some shocking statements to Megyn Kelly of FOX News...

Edward Snowden : Patriot or Traitor ? Patriot ? Traitor ? Somewhere in between ?

It was April of 2010, and, after five years, I’d finally graduated from college. An English major with double minors in biology and chemistry, I’d planned on attending dental school to become an oral maxillofacial surgeon. But after a series of disconcerting events, I ended up taking a job at Victoria’s Secret to spend a year studying women. I was on top of the world, really, no longer worrying about taking the DAT or writing my personal statement. All I had to do now was learn about a couple of bras, and how hard could that be?

VIDEO: On this morning’s America Live with Megyn Kelly, Colmes, now a sporadic FOX News commentator, and author of the 2012 mega-flop, Thank the Liberals For Saving America (Colmes may currently be re-evaluating the validity of this title), appeared with popular conservative radio talk-show host, Lars Larson to discuss the latest revelations about the Obama regime’s epidemic, unconstitutional, (formerly) secret spy program...

I just returned from New York, where I attended my 30th Columbia University reunion. I celebrated with my esteemed classmates. Everyone except Barack Obama. As usual- he wasn’t there. Not even a video greeting. Not a personalized letter to his classmates. Nothing. But worse, no one at our 30th reunion ever met him. The President of the United States is the ghost of Columbia University.

Heard Mark Steyn speak at a Massachusetts synagogue last night,it's the appearance he mentioned either last Monday or Tuesday on Rush's show.As good as he substituting for Rush he's even better in person,I can assure you.He had the audience in stitches for an hour (plus) while making point after powerful point about the world jihadi movement...particularly as it concerns the US and Europe.I'm gonna try to buy a transcript of the speech or,better still,a recording but I'm led to believe that I'll fail.Oh well. On a side note,the synagogue's Rabbi talked for about 15 minutes as an introduction for Mark...

Let the moderates and the democrats re-elect Christie.

Those silly “doom and bloom” Preppers will be relying on stored food, stored gardening seeds, stored water, water purification equipment, and the associated knowledge and skills which they have acquired. But you, the Unprepared, have it much easier. Why spend money on food and supplies, when you can depend on FEMA to provide you with food and water? All you have to do is wait. Waiting is easier and less expensive than Prepping, isn’t it? Just wait until FEMA realizes that people need food and water to survive, then wait for them to find food and water. Next, wait for...

Since everyone's offering suggestions as to who should be named to fill Lautenberg's seat, here's mine..and it's a beaut: Judge Andrew Napolitano..It makes sense at so many levels...

This is in-car video of my 1986 Toyota MR2 at a lapping day at a local racetrack. The chassis is stock, the engine has a turbo and lots of go-fast parts. Watch this first to see the goodies under the skin. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWHwvQJBPKc The car has 255 RWHP, 179 ft lbs at 8500 rpm. The torque peak and HP peak are 300 RPM apart, at 8200 RPM and 8500 RPM.

The union representing technical and professional engineers today announced its opposition to the immigration bill, S. 744, warning that it sells American workers and students “down the river.” In a letter to the Senate, the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers (IFPTE) calls the bill “a cruel betrayal of American workers.” … IFPTE says the amendment eliminates the requirement to prioritize hiring equally qualified American workers and “creates a loophole” to allow employers to fire American workers and replace them with lower-paid foreign workers. …

DoD employees are being provided a "Notice of Furlough" from 28 May through 05 June. Employees are provided 7-days to appeal the notice. Any legal experts here have legal basis for subject appeals?

A tour of the White can only help promote the "Constitution", "patriotism" and the great history of freedom loving predecessors of the White House. Is the ending of the tours another Obama slap against those who oppose his tyranny?

For example when SHTF batteries and candles had big value, reasons are of course because people are still used to commodity of light at night, using it in every room etc. But very soon folks realized that candles are something like luxury so for example if you wanted to read book you would read it by daylight, or people in house simple gathered in one room under the light of one candle in order to spare the others. So value of candles went high up in beginning and then got down. So if you planned to make some big success...

Is is just me, or does anyone else get offended by the greeting "Happy Holiday" or "Happy Memorial Day"?

Dan from Squirrel Hill's Blog Unions that praised “free stuff� from Obamacare are now claiming that it’s “too expensive� Associated Press reports:Some unions now angry about health care overhaul Obama’s Affordable Care Act has added to that cost – for the unions’ and other plans – by requiring health plans to cover dependents up to age 26, eliminate annual or lifetime coverage limits and extend coverage to people with pre-existing conditions.When the unions were trying to help pass Obamacare, they said that those were good things. Coverage for children up to age 26! No lifetime limits on benefits! Coverage for pre-existing...

If you have any lingering doubts about which way MSNBC “leans,” you don’t need to look any farther than the cable channel’s coverage of President Obama’s speech on Thursday regarding foreign relations and national security. At times, it seemed that each MSNBC host or contributor was trying to outdo the other with fawning cheers over the latest address from the Democratic occupant of the White House, ranging from “momentous” to “remarkable.” …

“Liberal media bias is an old complaint,” the Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto noted in his “Best of the Web Today” column this past Monday on responses to the Obama scandals, before warning: “The Obama presidency has given it a new and dangerous form. Never has the prevailing bias of the media been so closely aligned with the ideological aims and political interests of the party in power.”He recognized “the American media remain free and independent, or you would not be reading this column,” but zinged, “to a large extent they have functioned for the past few years as if...

Welcome to the FReeper Recipe Thread. Looking for something new to make or made something new that came out great? Please share a 'tried-and-true' recipe or three- for fellow FReepers to add to their 'go-to' Recipe Stack of Family Favorites! Here's the place to share and explore your latest and greatest favorite recipe.

Miss Honduras herself... how cool is that? Hello, I am writing to you because i noticed you have some very old photos from 2008 featured of me on you site. Im sending you some new photos if you would like to post them. Thank you very much :)  Jennifer Andrade Well, mebbe those pics were old- but they were fine, believe me. Yet after the reach-out, naturally I feel obligated~ thanks Jen! More at Reaganite Republican... (should be SFW, couple bikini shots)

BSA Soap-on-a-rope. Don't leave camp without it.

My e-mail: Dear Sir, Your decision to terminate Reporter Larry Conners after he was abused by the IRS for asking probing questions of Mr. Obama is shameful, to say the least. This action proves to millions of viewers and others that the press is so far in the tank for the Obama administration and the Left in general that they don't realize they've grown gills. Hopefully, your station will either go out of business, lose their license or be sold to someone concerned with journalism, not partisanship. Also, I hope that you and anyone else responsible for this decision will...

With apologies to Aristotle, there is one thing that abhors a vacuum even more than nature, and that is politics. As the Obama scandals continue to unfold, every Democrat is already thinking HARD about what might happen, and what it might mean for 2016. So let's speculate as well, shall we....

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow warned her very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very liberal audience that the Virginia Republican Party just picked a slate of “very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very conservative” candidates to run for office this fall. …… And those Republican loyalists who showed up for the convention picked candidates for this state-wide election who are very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very conservative. A very conservative Tea Party style slate of candidates. … But suffice it to say, I didn’t use enough “verys” in describing them. …

The fecklessness of the Obama administration's approach to Russia beggars description. Suffice it to say that the more earnestly Kerry implores the Russians to facilitate some less messy (not neat, just less messy) transition in Syria, the more abusively Putin and Lavrov behave. The Moscow "spy" fiasco is part of that. So are many other things-which I'll discuss in a bit. Kerry and Obama should wear "kick [or something more vulgar] me, Vlad" pinned to their backsides. Hell, maybe they already do. That would be consistent with the evidence, because Putin and Lavrov are kicking hard, kicking fast, and kicking...

I took down the post about Charles Ramsey's past. The extension of the man's fifteen minutes is irritating to me, but I suppose I'm more irritated with the people who have tried to turn him into the next Antoine Dodson. One of the reasons that the Dodson bit and Bed Intruder is funny and entertaining is that nothing all that bad happened. There was a break-in, a failed rape attempt and a clumsy escape which left the Dodsons traumatized for a short time. The interview—which was with the actual victims, not a bystander—was the perfect example of what Nipsey Washington...

Niqab, Burkas and Islam doesn’t help: Muslim countries lead web searches for ‘sex’, ‘goat sex’, ‘dog sex’, ‘rape’, ‘gay sex’, ‘ass sex’, ‘bird sex’ and ‘sexy child’ Islam appears to contribute to Muslim men turning into sexually distorted and imbalanced individuals. While the Islamic world believe (imagine) that the western world is obsessed and addicted to sex and cause crime and problems, low birth rates and search terms reveal a completely different picture. Muslim addiction to sex and sexual perversions is enormous and evident not only from the Quran and their prophet Muhammad and his history of rape, sodomy, murders,...

If you're looking for some good news - here it is! All eyes are on Illinois. We've watched the legislatures in state after state capitulate to the well-funded and well-organized "gay marriage" blitzkrieg. This year the final state in the "gay marriage" path is Illinois. But it looks like the "gay lobby" will probably be stopped there by a marvelous pro-family army! With only two weeks until the current session ends, it's down to a final vote in the House. After months of intense lobbying, the "no-on-gay-marriage" votes have a pretty strong lead, which actually seems to be growing a...

Last year Burger King’s Summertime Menu included a Bacon Sundae but they seem intent on topping that this year with the introduction of the Burger King Rib Sandwich. An obvious copy of the popular McDonald’s McRib Sandwich, the Burger King version will be available starting May 21st through the end of the summer along with the return of a line of Memphis Pulled Pork Sandwiches and Sweet Potato Fries. The Burger King Rib Sandwich was tested in Shreveport, Louisiana and did very well there. Let’s not forget Burger King also had those Fire Grilled bone in Ribs a few years...

Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney was Jay Leno’s guest on the Tonight Show Friday, and he didn’t have kind things to say about the current White House resident or former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. At one point in their discussion, Romney said, “I’m not a fan of the president—in case you didn’t know that.” …

My nephew and his squeeze are talking marriage. They've been childhood sweethearts since 6th grade - they're now both 21. He wants a 'prenup', a prenuptial agreement, and she's never heard of such a thing. Should they have one? Some background: they are each others best friend and confidant. When he left his grandfather's house after high school graduation to be more independent and encountered roughened circumstances, she supported him while she worked at WalMart, and together they became partners in a business that failed. Nephew moved back home while she went to school. But that's not all - her...

I am from Bosnia. You know, between 1992 and 1995, it was hell. For one year, I lived and survived in a city with 6,000 people without water, electricity, gasoline, medical help, civil defense, distribution service, any kind of traditional service or centralized rule. Our city was blockaded by the army; and for one year, life in the city turned into total crap. We had no army, no police. We only had armed groups; those armed protected their homes and families. When it all started, some of us were better prepared. But most of the neighbors' families had enough food...

Mr. President, when it rains it pours, but most Americans hold their own umbrellas. Today in the Rose Garden you dismissed the idea of a Special Counsel to investigate the IRS scandal. With that, your galling political hubris shined bright in the midst of today’s dark clouds. Mr. President, how can we trust your Justice Department to conduct an independent investigation when there is a systemic violation of the Hatch Act throughout your administration? Surely you are aware that the Hatch Act prevents certain federal employees from engaging in political activity. Specifically, it’s illegal for these federal employees to engage...

Who is on your list of corrupt officials that deserve jail time and why?

Watch Chris Matthews, Hardball (5-14-2013; 5:20 in length) at link. Tingle gets to pretend Obama is man enough to actually own up to all scandals (with guests). Chrissy still wants to push all of Obama's 2nd term agenda, claiming "Obama now only wants to govern" and "media's mission to see this through".

You won't believe how much has changed since then. Notice anything peculiar (other than the fashions) in some of these photos? (Many photos at link)

I've noticed that my liberal "friends" are awfully quiet these days on Facebook. No pictures of Obama, no more Sandy Hook gun control links, etc. It was excruciating to look at after the reelection of Obama. Anyone else seeing the same or you seeing any defending of this trainwreck of an administration?

Added a lot of updates since my last posting. Hope you enjoy them. Here's the link to my little art blog.

I have seen enough. Obama is a slave of his own bloated ego. He is addicted to hate, lies and death. He is the anti nature to the divine trinity of love, truth and life. Obama is a master in the camp of goats. Let all those who love and serve truth reject this liar and thief. If Obama is a wake up call to the righteous, he has served his purpose. Remeber, perfect love casts out all fear.

All too many of the other great tragedies of history – Stalin’s atrocities, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust, to name but a few – were perpetrated by armed troops against unarmed populations. Many could well have been avoided or mitigated, had the perpetrators known their intended victims were equipped with a rifle and twenty bullets apiece, as the Militia Act required here. If a few hundred Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful of weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have...

OK FReeper watch snobs/those with absolutely nothing better to do: Help me out here. Just based on first impressions and without bringing any independent knowledge about watches to bear -- which of these two watches do you think has the more "luxe" look?