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**Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules and rewards.** Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier, you are called to the red courtesy phone.

*I posted the article below on my Facebook page a couple days ago. I got a lot of feedback and the post generated a massive amount of commentary. Several people asked me to expand upon my original post and turn it into an article on my site for those who don’t follow Facebook. That’s what I’ve done. The original post is first and then I answer a couple reader questions at the end. -Greg While I was at the Rangemaster Tactical Conference last weekend, I attended a class called “Surviving Extreme Events” taught by John Holschen. I’ve taken several of...

FOOD FOR THOUGHT...THINK ABOUT IT! (JackSprat) If you can get arrested for hunting or fishing without a license, but not for being in the country illegally ... you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots. If you have to get your parents' permission to go on a field trip or take an aspirin in school, but not to get an abortion ... you might live in a country founded by geniuses but run by idiots. If the only school curriculum allowed to explain how we got here is evolution, but the government stops a $15...

Edible insects provide food for thought at UN-organized meeting 19 February 2008 – Experts from around the world have gathered in Chiang Mai, Thailand, at a meeting organized by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to discuss the human consumption of insects, some of which have as much protein as meat and fish. While the thought of eating bugs may turn some people off, it is very common in some parts of the world and even considered a delicacy. Beetles, ants, bees, grasshoppers and crickets are some of the most widely enjoyed of the over 1,400 insect species...

Please, PLEASE, tell me you are kidding! When I saw the line “’A Petition to Stop the Ban on the Use of "Christmas" By Major Retailers” I thought it was a joke. I was not taken back by the possibility of retailers ‘banning Christmas.” No, I was taken back by the absurdity of a petition to address this issue. Christians in America, will you please wake up and get a grip? We are so focused on the “culture war” we are neglecting the battle for the souls of men. The slippery slope is not the eventual dechristianization of America. GOOD...

Here's a nice object lesson in what happens when religous lunatics take charge of public policy: The real cause of the bubonic plague in the Middle Ages was the ignorance of conservative Christianity. Church leaders in their overzealous campaign to hunt down and burn witches at the stake decided that cats, like free thinking women, were agents of Satan. The Pope ordered both witches and cats to be annihilated. Destroying all the feline population in feudal towns and villages upset nature's balance because it was the role of cats to contain rodents and other vermin by killing them. Without cats,...

God good to all, or just a few? PSA 145:9 The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works. JER 13:14 And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- War or Peace? EXO 15:3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name. ROM 15:33 Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Who is the father of Joseph? MAT 1:16 And Jacob begat Joseph...

The Wild and Free Pigs of the Okefenokee Swamp by Steve Washam based on a telling by George Gordon Some years ago, about 1900, an old trapper from North Dakota hitched up some horses to his Studebaker wagon, packed a few possessions-- especially his traps--and drove south. Several weeks later he stopped in a small town just north of the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia. It was a Saturday morning--a lazy day--when he walked into the general store. Sitting around the pot-bellied stove were seven or eight of the town’s local citizens. The traveler spoke, "Gentlemen, could you direct me to...