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Here’s a beginner’s list I made for my [elderly] father today:

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“The Obama Administration will call on Americans to serve in order to meet the nation’s challenges. President-Elect Obama will expand national service programs like AmeriCorps and Peace Corps and will create a new Classroom Corps to help teachers in underserved schools, as well as a new Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, and Veterans Corps. Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year. Obama will encourage retiring Americans to serve by improving programs available for individuals over age 55, while at the same time promoting youth programs such as Youth Build and Head Start.”

Hope you already had your guns and ammo « Everyday Prepper
Well it didn’t take Obama to long to show his true colors to his supporters. Most of us already new he was anti-gun and anti-constitution but he has now confirmed it.

Excerpt from Change.gov - Office of the President-Elect:
“As president, Barack Obama would repeal the Tiahrt Amendment, which restricts the ability of local law enforcement to access important gun trace information, and give police officers across the nation the tools they need to solve gun crimes and fight the illegal arms trade. Obama and Biden also favor commonsense measures that respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, while keeping guns away from children and from criminals who shouldn’t have them. They support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof. They also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent, as such weapons belong on foreign battlefields and not on our streets.“

Home On the Range: Real Marksmen Don’t Eat Quiche
Today’s Home on the Range “home weapon” is an Interarms Mauser in .300 Winchester Magnum. A traditional Mauser model 98 action with a sporter weight barrel, mounted in a Bell and Carlson stock. Pillar bedded for stability, and sporting a decent recoil pad to soak up some of the kick. It’s trigger is a Timney Sportsman set at 2.5 lbs. The 6x straight power scope is mounted in Leopold steel rings on a Leopold one piece solid base. The bolt has been lapped in, and the muzzle re-crowned.

Food Storage…A Necessary Adventure: It’s about the basics
I got a link to this article the other day, in an e-mail entitled, “how sad.” It talks about “Mother’s Cookies”, which are, if you remember, those little circus animal cookies that were frosted in either pink or white frosting (usually) and covered with fun little sprinkles. We have (very) occasionally eaten these cookies as a special treat, (our rarity of purchase probably didn’t do much for their sales numbers) and they were good. It is a little sad on that level. What bothered me more was why they won’t be on the shelves anymore.

Apparently, the company went out of business in October, and in a paragraph detailing the reasons for the closure, you can find this statement:

“They blamed a variety of economic factors, including the rising costs of fuel, flour, butter and sugar.”