Saturday, May 16, 2015

Have you lost out on job opportunities because of a criminal record conviction? A conviction on your record can also be embarrassing and cause stress. There is some good news, though. If you live in California, you may qualify to expunge your criminal record. This means that past convictions will no longer show up on your record. You'll need to determine if you're eligible and fill out the paperwork.

Part 1 of 2: Preparing to File for Expungement

1
Know the basic qualifications for expungement. To qualify, you must have been convicted of a misdemeanor or felony offense. You must successfully finish probation and not be currently charged with a criminal offense. Also, you can't be on probation or serving a sentence for a criminal offense.
- In general, you must have successfully completed all your probation to get an expungement. This means you completed all the terms of your probation, attended all required court appearances, and did not commit any new crimes while on probation. You might have also needed to pay fines and restitution, attended counseling, or done community service. ^[1]
2
Determine whether you might qualify even if you didn't finish probation. You may still be able to get an expungement. The court will hold a hearing to determine whether to allow this. At the hearing, the judge will consider the following things:^[2]
- your performance while on probation
- the seriousness of the underlying conviction
- your criminal history
- why you think you deserve this relief (such as:your opportunity to get a good job, the fact that you support your family, the fact that you have strong community ties, etc.)
- any other factors that they deem relevant
3
Make sure your case does not fall within specific exceptions. If you served time in any California State Prison, you will not qualify for an expungement. Expungement is only for people convicted of a misdemeanor or a felony that could have been charged as a misdemeanor. It is also limited to those sentenced to county jail time, probation, a fine, or a combination of those three.^[3]
- There are also some offenses which you cannot expunge under any circumstances. These include any sexual crime involving a child (including molestation, rape, and sodomy) and statutory rape.^[4]
4
Determine which forms you will need. In California the forms that you must fill out to get an expungement are called PC 1203.4 forms. ^[5]^[6] To expunge a misdemeanor, file a Petition to Dismiss a Misdemeanor if you've completed probation. If you haven't completed probation, file a Motion to Terminate Probation or a Petition for Dismissal if the motion isn't granted.^[7]^[8]
- In the case of a felony in which probation was ordered, you'll need to file under PC § 17(b)(3) to reduce the felony to a misdemeanor. Then you can file a Petition to Dismiss a Misdemeanor or Petition to Dismiss a Misdemeanor. The forms for felony reduction are available at any court location.^[9] In the case of a felony in which you were sentenced to prison time but instead served time in county jail, file under PC § 1203.41.^[10]

Part 2 of 2: Filing for Expungement

1
Get and fill out the forms. Download the necessary forms from the court's website or get them from the court in person.^[11] Fill them out completely and accurately.
- You may want to attach any documents you want to show to the court. These documents can include proof of program or rehabilitation completion. Character reference letters and community service completion paperwork are also often included. They are not required but may be helpful.^[12]
2
File the forms and pay the fee. File the forms with the court where the offense occurred. Go to the office of the clerk of court with your completed forms and the filing fee.^[13]
- The filing fee varies based on the county where you were convicted and whether you were convicted of a misdemeanor or a felony. For example, San Diego County charges a filing fee of $60 for a misdemeanor and $120 for a felony. Look up the cost in the area you live by visiting the court's website.
3
Prepare for your hearing. After you file your paperwork, the court will schedule a hearing. It will be up to a judge to decide whether to grant your expungement. Before this hearing, it is a good idea to consult with an attorney about how best to prepare.
- Before the hearing, the court will notify the prosecutor in your case so that they can file objections to the application for expungement.
- The prosecutor’s objections will set forth the specific reasons why they claim the expungement should be denied. You will want to have responses prepared to any foreseeable objection.
- Prepare a statement for the court and make copies of all documents and evidence related to your case that you wish to submit.^[14]
4
Attend your hearing. Show up on time, dress appropriately, and behave respectfully. Address the judge by his or her formal title ("judge" or "your honor"). At the hearing, the court will either grant or deny the expungement based upon the evidence and arguments presented.^[15] There are several things the court will consider when making this decision, such as:
- Whether you have been charged with or arrested for any more crimes.
- Your behavior since the offense. This includes your ability to keep a job and pay your bills and debts. It also includes education or job-training you've completed. Judges often will consider community involvement like joining a church or volunteering, too.
- Any arguments raised by the prosecution .
- Whether the government has an interest in maintaining your criminal record.
5
Re-file if necessary. If the judge denies your petition, ask what you need to do to get your conviction expunged. The judge will tell you why he or she denied the petition, and what you need to do to get the petition granted. After listening to the changes that the judge suggests, make any necessary changes you can.
- You may re-file your petition 6 months after the original denial, after you have made the changes recommended by the judge.^[16]

Friday, May 15, 2015

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes:

"Not twice this day
Inch time foot gem.

This day will not come again.
Every minute is worth a priceless gem."

Why I'm Teaching My Son To Break the Law - Reason.com

Monday, April 27, 2015

AMERICAN DIGEST: Comment on When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted by Rudyard Kipling

AMERICAN DIGEST: Comment on When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted by Rudyard Kipling:

THE STRANGER
1908

The Stranger within my gate,

He may be true or kind,
But he does not talk my talk—

I cannot feel his mind.

I see the face and the eyes and the mouth,

But not the soul behind.

The men of my own stock,

They may do ill or well,

But they tell the lies I am wonted to,

They are used to the lies I tell;

And we do not need interpreters

When we go to buy or sell.

The Stranger within my gates,

He may be evil or good,

But I cannot tell what powers control—

What reasons sway his mood;

Nor when the Gods of his far-off land
Shall repossess his blood.

The men of my own stock,
Bitter bad they may be,
But, at least, they hear the things I hear,
And see the things I see;
And whatever I think of them and their likes
They think of the likes of me.

This was my father's belief
And this is also mine:
Let the corn be all one sheaf—
And the grapes be all one vine,
Ere our children's teeth are set on edge
By bitter bread and wine.

Rudyard Kipling: White Man's Poet

Rudyard Kipling: White Man's Poet

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Thursday, April 23, 2015

(435 unread) - jdr1228 - Yahoo Mail

HUMOR

A psychiatrist was conducting a group therapy session with four young mothers and their small children.
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"You all have obsessions," he observed.
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To the first mother, Mary, he said, "You are obsessed� with eating. You've even named your daughter Candy."
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He turned to the second Mom, Ann: "Your obsession is with money. Again, it manifests itself in your child's name, Penny."
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He turned to the third Mom, Joyce: "Your obsession is alcohol. This too shows itself in your child's name, Brandy."
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At this point, the fourth mother, Carol, quietly got up, took her little boy by the hand, and whispered, "Come on, Dick, this guy has no idea what he's talking about. Let's pick up Peter and Willy from school and go get dinner."
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

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Saturday, April 18, 2015

AMERICAN DIGEST: Comment on The Banality of Sedition

AMERICAN DIGEST: Comment on The Banality of Sedition: The devil makes 'em do it the first time,
second time they do it on their own.
Lord put a handle on that Motorheaded man,
help him leave that treason alone.

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes: Iceland’s Volcanic Pollution Dwarfs All of Europe’s Human Emissions
To demonise element number six in the periodic table is amusing. Why not promethium? Carbon dioxide is an odourless, colourless, harmless natural gas. It is plant food. Without carbon, there would be no life on Earth.
The original source of atmospheric CO2 is volcanoes. The Earth's early atmosphere had a thousand times the CO2 of today's atmosphere. This CO2 was recycled through rocks, life and the oceans. Through time, this CO2 has been sequestered into plants, coal, petroleum, minerals and carbonate rocks, resulting in a decrease in atmospheric CO2.
The atmosphere now contains 800 billion tonnes of carbon as CO2. Soils and plants contain 2000 billion tonnes, oceans 39,000 billion tonnes and limestone 65,000,000 billion tonnes. The atmosphere contains only 0.001 per cent of the total carbon in the top few kilometres of the Earth. Deeper in Earth, there are huge volumes of CO2 yet to be leaked into the atmosphere. So depleted is the atmosphere in CO2, that horticulturalists pump warm CO2 into glasshouses to accelerate plant growth.
Our planet has about 1,000 volcanoes on land, such as Holuhraun and Bardarbunga, but most of our volcanoes are under the sea. “Some 85 per cent of volcanoes are unseen and unmeasured yet these heat the oceans and add monstrous amounts of CO2 to the oceans,” notes Dr. Plimer. “Why have these been ignored?,” he asks.

Thursday, April 16, 2015

Grace in the Blue Ridge Mountains @ AMERICAN DIGEST

The check had come and I'd paid it. They'd filled the restaurant and turned it once since we'd been there. A popular place. A post-post- modern place, a place that was a sterling example of how we live now -- the real and the regional reduced to a remembrance, the communities gated, the homes "maintenance -free." History in a bottle, cleaned, pressed and with the trans-fats removed. Just the way we like it. Traditional in style but tradition-free in content. The experience without the meaning and not missing it.

As I got up to leave the family of six at the long table across from me was served with the quick flourish and satisfied air of presentation that is the style of serving these days. The was food steaming in front of them, but none of them made a move towards it. Instead, they talked quietly amongst themselves and seemed to come to a decision. They made their selection from among them. It was to be one of the daughters, a girl of about 17 I guessed. The din in the restaurant rose and fell, but the family of six sat quietly and then bowed their heads as one. Then they said grace.

I stood motionless at my table. I had, I thought, never seen this before in a restaurant. I'd seen it in private homes to be sure, but upon reflection I realized that I'd not seen it there in quite sometime. And I was quite sure this was, for me, a rare event. I'd probably not been paying attention since it no doubt went on all the time, but still it was a startling moment. Perhaps I'd just been too long in Seattle where the only manifestations of spirit are flimsy; where the invocations are raised to a watery Buddhism or bloodless Unitarianism where God is impossibly distant if at all extant. Be that as it may, this simple act of saying grace did not so much shock me as still me. I paused to listen in. And the daughter did not disappoint.

Her's was no gestural grace -- "Bless this food. Amen. Let's eat." -- but an extended meditation on the good fortune to find oneself among family and before a rich selection of food; an acknowledgment of an unusual level of being blessed by God, and a calling down of God's grace on members of the family present and not present, and ending with a wish that God continue to bless the family, the community, the state and the country. Then, and only then, was "Amen" spoken and the meal begun.

Outside along the Asheville streets, it was a balmy evening. Down the block another restaurant offered "Exceptional International Vegetarian Food," and a shop on the corner sold items imported from Africa whose purchase was purported to help suffering children here and there in that blighted continent. A local freebie paper picked off a stack had decided that a photo of a tribal protest in Santiago, Chile on the Dia de la Raza was important information for the citizens of this part of town. Down in the Asheville hipster-dopester-homeless gulch at a more cut-rate vegetarian restaurant, citizens with shaved heads, "message" t-shirts, multiple facial piercing and full-body tattoos were climbing the stairs in search of a bran muffin, bitching about George Bush, global warming, and their personal collection of STDs while complaining of residual racism in a city that seems more white than Seattle.

The road back to the house in the hills was dark and winding and you had to take it slow. Going back it was nice to know that somewhere, somehow, and for reasons that sometimes challenge all understanding, there were people still asking God to bless America.

AMERICAN DIGEST: Comment on The state of religious freedom in 2015

AMERICAN DIGEST: Comment on The state of religious freedom in 2015:

The Rank Stranger

I wandered again to my home in the mountain
Where in youths early dawn I was happy and free
I looked for my friends but I never could find them
I found they were all rank strangers to me

Everybody I met seemed to be a rank stranger
No mother no dad not a friend I could see
They knew not my name and I knew not their faces
I found they were all rank strangers to me

They've moved all away said the voice of a stranger
To a beautiful home by the bright crystal sea
Some beautiful day I'll meet them in Heaven
Where no one will be a stranger to me

Author: Albert E. Brumley

Monday, April 13, 2015

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello: Long, long ago - An old Indiana geezer, who had been a retired farmer for a long time, became bored and decided to open a medical clinic based upon his vast knowledge of treating animals.

To stop the skeptics he put a sign up outside that said: "Dr.
Geezer’s clinic - Get your treatment for $5.00, if not cured get back $10.00."

Doctor Young, who was new to the community,and was a recent Eastern medical school graduate, was positive that this old geezer
didn't know beans about medicine and thought that this would be a great opportunity to enhance his reputation in the community and to get an easy $10.00 in the meantime. So he went to Dr. Geezer’s clinic.

This is what happened:

Dr. Young: "Dr. Geezer, I have lost all taste in my mouth, can you please help me?"

Dr. Geezer: "Nurse, please bring the medicine from box 22 and put 3 drops in Dr. Young's mouth."

Dr. Young: Aaagh! "This is nothing but coal oil!"

Dr. Geezer: "Congratulations! You've got your taste back. That will be $5.00."

Dr. Young gets annoyed and goes back after a couple of days figuring to recover his lost $5.00:

Dr. Young: "Doctor, I have lost my memory, I cannot remember anything."

Dr. Geezer: "Nurse, please bring the medicine from box 22 and put 3 drops in the patient's mouth."

Dr. Young: "Oh no you don't! I remember your "box 22" that's coal oil!"

Dr. Geezer: "Congratulations! You've got your memory back. That will be $5.00."

Dr. Young (After already having lost $10.00) leaves angrily and comes back after several more days.

Dr. Young: "Listen Doctor, my eyesight has suddenly become weak and I can hardly see!"

Dr. Geezer: "Well, I don't have any medicine for that so, here's your $10.00 back."

Dr. Young: "But this is only $5.00!"

Dr. Geezer: "Congratulations! You got your vision back! That will be another $5.00 please."

The moral of the story: Just because you're "Young" doesn't mean that you can out-smart an old "Indiana/Geezer"
# posted by �Anonymous : 4/11/15, 7:55 PM

proof of christ's divinity

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes: What greater proof of His divinity could there be than the fact that He is still resisted, even hated, after 2,000 years?
Nobody hates Julius Caesar anymore; it’s pretty hard even to hate Attila the Hun, who left a lot of hard feelings in his day. But the world still hates Christ and his Church.
The usual form of this hatred is interesting in itself. For every outright persecutor, there are countless people who pretend not to hate Christ, but subtly demote him to the rank of a “great moral teacher,” or say they have nothing against Christianity as long as the “separation of church and state” is observed, or, under the guise of scholarship, affect to winnow out his “authentic” utterances from those falsely ascribed to him — as if the Apostles would have dared to put words in his mouth! And as if such fabricated words would have proved as durable as “authentic” ones! (Try writing a single sentence that anyone could mistake for a saying of Christ for even a century.) Sobran's --- The Words and Deeds of Christ

proof of christ's divinity

Saturday, April 04, 2015

3 April 1945: Okinawa – grim reality in Japanese underground hospital

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Friday, April 03, 2015

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Sunday, March 29, 2015

The Big Life of Captain Donald Alexander Malcolm Jr., 60: Not the Years in Your Life but the Life in Your Years @ AMERICAN DIGEST

The Big Life of Captain Donald Alexander Malcolm Jr., 60: Not the Years in Your Life but the Life in Your Years @ AMERICAN DIGEST

tRIBUTE TO FISHERMAN

The SPAM aisle in Hawaii @ AMERICAN DIGEST

Once By The Pacific - A poem by Robert Frost - American Poems

Someone had better be prepared for rage.
There would be more than ocean-water broken
Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.

Sunday, March 22, 2015

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Modern Directions Index

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A Case History of a Carefully Staged and Black-on-White Extramarital Affair

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Meet the Mandingos

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Saturday, March 21, 2015

The Untold Want by Walt Whitman Poem

The Untold Want by Walt Whitman Poem: The Untold Want
BY WALT WHITMAN

The untold want by life and land ne'er granted,
Now voyager sail thou forth to seek and find.

Monday, March 16, 2015

Pictures of the day: 13 March 2015 - Telegraph

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AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes: And we are ruled by criminals. If you treat IRS rules the way the IRS treats IRS rules, you go to prison; if you treat federal law the way the secretary of state does, you go to prison. If you treat immigration controls the way our immigration authorities do, you go to prison. If you’re as careless in your handling of firearms as the ATF is, you go to prison. You cook your business’s books the way the federal government cooks its books, you go to prison.

Friday, March 13, 2015

California has about one year of water left. Will you ration now? - LA Times

Thursday, March 12, 2015

Above the Green Line - Mar 12, 2015 Buy high, and Sell Higher: Momentum Investing - Joanne Klein - Public ChartList - StockCharts.com

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Wednesday, March 11, 2015

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Monday, March 09, 2015

(273 unread) - jdr1228 - Yahoo Mail

(273 unread) - jdr1228 - Yahoo Mail: jay@JayWatkins.com Today at 5:04 PM
To
me
Hey Joe,

I wanted to make all of you aware of my Jay Watkins Fish Smart Spring Seminar that is scheduled for Friday May the 1st 2015. The evening seminar will be at the HAMPTON� INN and SUITES meeting room. The Hampton Inn and Suites is located on Hwy 35 North in Rockport/Fulton. Seminar will start at 5:30 and end around 9;00pm.� I will furnish drinks and pizza to snack on while we talk you through the patterns and specific changes that 2015 will be presenting us. All good changes and positive out look for our fishery I promise. Cost of seminar is 125.00 per person. If your already coming to Rockport for a weekend of fishing that is great. If not maybe this would be an excellent chance to come down and learn something and get in a couple of days of fishing as well. Knowledge is priceless and lends itself to more confidence which creates greater success on the water.
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You will need a note pad and pen and the HOOK-N-LINE FISHING MAP NUMBER F-116. You will be provide with a copy of all the areas that I fish and the conditions so you won't miss anything as we go through my spring fishing areas. Tape recorders are permitted but no videos please. I will be talking about the areas that I fish and the patterns/conditions in which to fish these areas. I will also be discussing the positive effects recent rains have had on the fishery as well as educating everyone on the effects of the opening of Cedar Bayou. Mother Nature along with the saltwater anglers in Texas and the CCA have made great strides in aiding in the recovery of the fishery and the estuaries. I have already seen many positive signs in our Northern Bay systems due to the rain and the opening of Cedar Bayou.
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SEATING WILL BE LIMITED due to the size of our meeting room so do not wait too long to respond to this E-MAIL if your interested in attending. No response is needed if your not interested of course.
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Make Check� for 125.00 payable to:
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315 SAINT FRANCIS CIRCLE
ROCKPORT,TEXAS 78382
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Saturday, March 07, 2015

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello: An old nun living in a convent next to a� construction site noticed the worker's coarse language and decided to spend some time with them—to correct their ways.� She then decided to take her lunch and sit with them. Putting her sandwich in a brown bag, she walked to� the spot where the men were eating.� Sporting a big smile, she walked up to the group� and asked:

"And do you men know Jesus Christ?"

They shook their heads and looked at each other, very confused.

�One of the workers looked up into the steelworks and yelled out, "Anybody up there know Jesus Christ?"

One of the steelworkers yelled down. "Why?"

The worker yelled back,

"Cause his mom's here with his lunch."

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello: The owner of a female dog who was "in heat" agreed to look after her neighbor's male dog while they were on vacation.
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She had a large house and believed that she would be keep the two dogs apart.
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Predictably, as she was drifting off to sleep she heard awful howling and moaning sounds downstairs.� She rushed downstairs and found the dogs locked together, in obvious pain and unable to disengage.
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Unable to separate them, and perplexed as to what to do next, despite the late hour she called the vet, who answered in a very grumpy voice.
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Having explained the problem to him, the vet said, "Hang up the phone and place it down alongside the dogs. I will then call you back and the noise of the ringing will make the male lose his erection and he will be able to withdraw."
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"Just worked on me," he replied.

Thursday, March 05, 2015

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Sunday, February 22, 2015

Part 1: Calgary goes 'oil crazy' after Dingman discovery

Part 1: Calgary goes 'oil crazy' after Dingman discovery

Canada oil history

FLASHBACK: Liberals Cheered Obama When He Questioned George Bush’s Patriotism (Video) | The Gateway Pundit

Saturday, February 21, 2015

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes: Copenhagen shootings: hundreds attend funeral of gunman | World news | The Guardian
"A handful of those who were there he recognized as members of the Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir, but there were also many “normal Muslims,” the man said.
Memo to File: There are no "normal" Muslims.

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes: Rudy Giuliani: In your heart you know he's right.

Megyn Kelly asked His Honor,

"Mr. Mayor, do you want to apologize for your comments?"
Rudy Giuliani replied:

"Not at all. I want to repeat it. The reality is from all that can see of this president, all that I’ve heard of him, he apologizes for America, he criticizes America. He talks about the crusades and how the Christians were barbarians, leaves out the second half of the sentence that the Muslims were barbarians also. He sees Christians slaughtered and doesn’t stand up and hold a press conference, although we hold a press conference for the situation in Ferguson. He sees Jews being killed for anti-Semitic reasons. Doesn’t stand up and hold a press conference. This is an American president I’ve never seen before."

Friday, February 20, 2015

Half Wits @ AMERICAN DIGEST

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Tuesday, February 17, 2015

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Monday, February 16, 2015

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes: Will you thumb through the pictures when I am gone?

Will my face, made careworn and tired, be restored in your mind's eye? I cannot know what it was you ever saw in me. I cannot understand how you could know that when I said those things all people say to one another, almost without thinking, that I would really mean them. Sippican Cottage: The Festival of the Kiss

Thursday, February 05, 2015

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Monday, January 26, 2015

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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Louisiana Legends | LPB

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Sunday, January 18, 2015

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AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes

9. During an attack that started January 3 and continued through January 11, Boko Haram opened fire on 16 northern Nigerian villages.

The death toll estimates range from 200 to as many 2,000 people.
Another 10,000 people who managed to escape have fled to neighboring
Chad. Many Nigerians drowned in an attempt to cross Lake Chad to escape
what is now described as the "deadliest massacre"€ in the history of
Boko Haram. Over the past six months, the militant group has taken
control of more than two dozen towns in northeast Nigeria, most of them
in Borno State, and launched attacks into Chad and Cameroon.
The territory controlled by Boko Haram now nearly equals the Islamic
State'€™s in Iraq and Syria.

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes: Heard a great Jimmy Carter joke the other day.

Someone says to Carter: “You’re going to die on a Jewish holiday.” Carter asks: Which one? Answer: Doesn’t matter: whatever day you die on will be a Jewish holiday.

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Friday, January 16, 2015

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Eagle Ford Shale Maps and News | Eagle Ford Shale Blog: The Eagle Ford shale� (often misspelled Eagleford,) is not the next big thing in oil and gas plays, it is the “right now” big thing. You may have never heard of the Eagle Ford if you live outside of South Texas or are not in the oil and gas business but it will be big news in business circles around the rest of the country in the coming months and years. First recognized as a major natural gas play it is now being seen as� the sixth largest oilfield ever discovered in the United States and the largest discovery in over forty years. Our site, the original Eagle Ford Shale Blog, has been here since the play began in 2009, with the purpose of shedding light on this incredible oil and gas discovery.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Man awakens from 12 years in ‘vegetative state’

Sunday, January 11, 2015

Blood Pressure Drugs May Backfire On You

Blood Pressure Drugs May Backfire On You: My Prescription for Achieving Healthy Blood Pressure WITHOUT Drugs

Replace most of your carbs with non-starchy vegetables and replace the lost calories with healthy fats as mentioned above

Normalize your omega 6:3 ratio. Both omega-3 and omega-6 fats are essential for your health. Most Americans, however, are getting too much omega-6 and too little omega-3 in their diets. Consuming omega-3 fats is one of the best ways to re-sensitize your insulin receptors if you suffer from insulin resistance. Omega-3 fats are also important for strong cell membranes and good arterial elasticity. The best sources of omega-3 fats are fish and animal products. Unfortunately, most fresh fish today contains dangerously high levels of mercury. Your best bet is to find a safe source of fish, or if this proves too difficult, supplement with a high quality krill oil.

Eliminate caffeine. The connection between caffeine consumption and high blood pressure is not well understood, but there is ample evidence to indicate that if you have hypertension, coffee and other caffeinated drinks and foods can exacerbate your condition.

Consume fermented foods. Disturbances in gut flora appear to be a significant factor in the development of heart disease, as well as in many other chronic health problems. The best way to optimize your gut flora is by including some naturally fermented foods in your diet, such as sauerkraut and other fermented vegetables, yogurt, kefir, cheese and natto. Fermented foods (especially gouda and edam cheeses) are an important source of vitamin K2, which plays a crucial role in protecting your heart and brain.

Optimize your vitamin D level. Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to metabolic syndrome, as well as to high blood pressure. Vitamin D is a negative inhibitor of your body's renin-angiotensin system (RAS), which regulates blood pressure. If you're vitamin D deficient, it can cause inappropriate activation of your RAS, which may lead to hypertension. Ideally, you'll want to get your vitamin D by safely exposing your skin to the sun, or using a safe tanning bed. If those are not possible, then consider taking a vitamin D3 supplement.

Make exercise a priority. A comprehensive exercise regimen such as my Peak Fitness program is very important in maintaining a healthy cardiovascular system. Your routine should incorporate high-intensity burst-type exercises and weight training one to three times a week, as these have been shown to be even more effective than aerobic exercises at reducing your risk of dying from a heart attack.

Get Grounded. Lack of grounding, due to widespread use of rubber or plastic-souled shoes, is likely contributing to chronic inflammation today. When you walk on the earth barefoot there is a massive transfer of beneficial electrons rom the Earth into your body. Experiments show that walking barefoot outside improves blood viscosity and blood flow, which help regulate blood pressure. So, do yourself a favor and put your bare feet upon the sand or dewy grass to harness the healing power of the Earth.

Manage your stress. It’s a well-known fact that stress elevates blood pressure, so controlling stress is an essential element of good heart health. My preferred stress-busting tool is Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), which is easy to learn and easy to use. However, you might find other methods like yoga, meditation, or prayer, equally effective.

Final Words

Strategies to Help Prevent Hypertension

Strategies to Help Prevent Hypertension: ome Blood Pressure Drugs Raise Risk of Blindness

Some Blood Pressure Drugs Raise Risk of Blindness

Another major population study discovered that some type of hypertension drugs called vasodilators actually increase your risk of early onset of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which is the most common cause of blindness among American seniors. As noted in a press release:17
"...[R]esearchers... conducted a long-term population-based cohort study from 1988 to 2013 of nearly 5,000 residents of Beaver Dam, Wis., aged 43 to 86 years... The researchers found that, after adjusting for age, sex and other factors, using any vasodilator such as Apresoline and Loniten, which open (dilate) the blood vessels—was associated with a 72 percent greater risk of developing early-stage AMD. Among people who were not taking vasodilators, an estimated 8.2 percent developed signs of early AMD. In comparison, among those taking a vasodilator medication, 19.1 percent developed the disease.
The researchers also found that taking oral beta blockers such as Tenormin and Lopressor was associated with a 71 percent increase in the risk of neovascular AMD, a more advanced and vision-threatening form of the disease. Among those who were not taking oral beta blockers an estimated 0.5 percent developed signs of neovascular AMD. In comparison among those taking oral beta blockers, 1.2 percent developed neovascular AMD."

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Wednesday, January 07, 2015

Lincoln on the Rise of the Ambitious and The Silent Artillery of Time @ AMERICAN DIGEST

Lincoln on the Rise of the Ambitious and The Silent Artillery of Time

And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock
I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against
it. -- Matthew 16:18

In the great journal of things happening under the
sun, we, the American people, find our account running under date of the
nineteenth century of the Christian era. We find ourselves in the
peaceful possession of the fairest portion of the earth as regards
extent of territory, fertility of soil, and salubrity of climate. We
find ourselves under the government of a system of political
institutions conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and
religious liberty than any of which the history of former times tells
us. We, when mounting the stage of existence, found ourselves the legal
inheritors of these fundamental blessings. We toiled not in the
acquirement or establishment of them; they are a legacy bequeathed us by
a once hardy, brave, and patriotic, but now lamented and departed, race
of ancestors. Theirs was the task (and nobly they performed it) to
possess themselves, and through themselves us, of this goodly land, and
to uprear upon its hills and its valleys a political edifice of liberty
and equal rights; 'tis ours only to transmit these—the former unprofaned
by the foot of an invader, the latter undecayed by the lapse of time
and untorn by usurpation—to the latest generation that fate shall permit
the world to know. This task gratitude to our fathers, justice to
ourselves, duty to posterity, and love for our species in general, all
imperatively require us faithfully to perform.

How then shall we perform it? At what point shall we expect the approach
of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect
some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a
blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with
all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military
chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink
from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a
thousand years.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I
answer. If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come
from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its
author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all
time or die by suicide.

....I know the American people are much attached to their government;
I know they would suffer much for its sake; I know they would endure
evils long and patiently before they would ever think of exchanging it
for another,—yet, notwithstanding all this, if the laws be continually
despised and disregarded, if their rights to be secure in their persons
and property are held by no better tenure than the caprice of a mob, the
alienation of their affections from the government is the natural
consequence; and to that, sooner or later, it must come.

.... There are now, and will hereafter be, many causes, dangerous in
their tendency, which have not existed heretofore, and which are not too
insignificant to merit attention. That our government should have been
maintained in its original form, from its establishment until now, is
not much to be wondered at.

It had many props to support it through that period, which now are
decayed and crumbled away. Through that period it was felt by all to be
an undecided experiment; now it is understood to be a successful one.
Then, all that sought celebrity and fame and distinction expected to
find them in the success of that experiment. Their all was staked upon
it; their destiny was inseparably linked with it. Their ambition aspired
to display before an admiring world a practical demonstration of the
truth of a proposition which had hitherto been considered at best no
better than problematical—namely, the capability of a people to govern
themselves. If they succeeded they were to be immortalized; their names
were to be transferred to counties, and cities, and rivers, and
mountains; and to be revered and sung, toasted through all time.

If they failed, they were to be called knaves, and fools, and
fanatics for a fleeting hour; then to sink and be forgotten. They
succeeded. The experiment is successful, and thousands have won their
deathless names in making it so. But the game is caught; and I believe
it is true that with the catching end the pleasures of the chase. This
field of glory is harvested, and the crop is already appropriated. But
new reapers will arise, and they too will seek a field. It is to deny
what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of
ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And when
they do, they will as naturally seek the gratification of their ruling
passion as others have done before them.

The question then is, Can that gratification be found in supporting
and maintaining an edifice that has been erected by others? Most
certainly it cannot. Many great and good men, sufficiently qualified for
any task they should undertake, may ever be found whose ambition would
aspire to nothing beyond a seat in Congress, a gubernatorial or a
presidential chair; but such belong not to the family of the lion or the
tribe of the eagle. What! think you these places would satisfy an
Alexander, a Caesar, or a Napoleon? Never! Towering genius disdains a
beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. It sees no
distinction in adding story to story upon the monuments of fame erected
to the memory of others. It denies that it is glory enough to serve
under any chief. It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor,
however illustrious. It thirsts and burns for distinction; and if
possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves
or enslaving freemen.

Is it unreasonable, then, to expect that some man possessed of
the loftiest genius, coupled with ambition sufficient to push it to its
utmost stretch, will at some time spring up among us? And when such an
one does, it will require the people to be united with each other,
attached to the government and laws, and generally intelligent, to
successfully frustrate his designs.

Distinction will be his paramount object, and although he would as
willingly, perhaps more so, acquire it by doing good as harm, yet, that
opportunity being past, and nothing left to be done in the way of building up, he would set boldly to the task of pulling down.

.... At the close of that struggle, nearly every adult male had been a
participator in some of its scenes. The consequence was that of those
scenes, in the form of a husband, a father, a son, or a brother, a
living history was to be found in every family—a history bearing the
indubitable testimonies of its own authenticity, in the limbs mangled,
in the scars of wounds received, in the midst of the very scenes
related—a history, too, that could be read and understood alike by all,
the wise and the ignorant, the learned and the unlearned.

But those histories are gone. They can be read no more forever. They
were a fortress of strength; but what invading foeman could never do,
the silent artillery of time has done—the leveling of its walls. They
are gone. They were a forest of giant oaks; but the all-restless
hurricane has swept over them, and left only here and there a lonely
trunk, despoiled of its verdure, shorn of its foliage, unshading and
unshaded, to murmur in a few more gentle breezes, and to combat with its
mutilated limbs a few more ruder storms, then to sink and be no more.

They were pillars of the temple of liberty; and now that they have
crumbled away that temple must fall unless we, their descendants, supply
their places with other pillars, hewn from the solid quarry of sober
reason. Passion has helped us, but can do so no more. It will in future
be our enemy. Reason—cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason—must
furnish all the materials for our future support and defense. Let those
materials be molded into general intelligence, sound morality, and, in
particular, a reverence for the Constitution and laws; and that we
improved to the last, that we remained free to the last, that we revered
his name to the last, that during his long sleep we permitted no
hostile foot to pass over or desecrate his resting place, shall be that
which to learn the last trump shall awaken our Washington.

Upon these let the proud fabric of freedom rest, as the rock of its
basis; and as truly as has been said of the only greater institution,
"the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."
-- Abraham Lincoln The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions - An
Address Delivered Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Ill.
January 27, 1837

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AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes: Kurtz: I've seen horrors... horrors that you've seen.

But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that... but you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror... Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies! I remember when I was with Special Forces... seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate some children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there, and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried, I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out; I didn't know what I wanted to do! And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it... I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought, my God... the genius of that! The genius! The will to do that! Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we, because they could stand that these were not monsters, these were men... trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love... but they had the strength... the strength... to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men, our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral... and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling... without passion... without judgment... without judgment! Because it's judgment that defeats us. Apocalypse Now (1979) - Quotes - IMDb

25 Survival Christmas Gifts – LewRockwell.com

25 Brilliant Survival Stocking-Stuffer Ideas You’ll Love

By Scott Kelley
Graywolf Survival

December 17, 2014

I know survival and I’m pretty picky with gifts. The
best stocking stuffer gifts are unique, small, affordable, useful, and
things they’ll love. But what do you get someone who loves the outdoors?

I’ve done that research for you and found 25 no-fail survival gifts for the outdoorsman or prepper in your life. I’m cool like that.

I particularly chose these gifts with you faithful readers in mind –
AND tried to find some for those friends and family of yours who may not
particularly share your concern for being prepared (although a
particularly cool gift below like the flint/steel may sway them into
being interested).

25 brilliant survival stocking-stuffer ideas you’ll love

1) – Ultrafire® Cree 7W 300LM Mini LED One Mode Flashlight

I think the best stocking stuffer this year for preppers and non-preppers is this little CREE flashlight. WHY? because they’re ONLY A FEW BUCKS and they’re awesome. I like it so well, not only have I bought a ton of these for myself and others, I wrote a review of it.
After several months, I still love these lights. This one is a
no-brainer. Several of my friends and family have bought a dozen of
these at a time so they could have one in each car and give one to each
person on their shopping list.

2) – Coast HP1 Focusing LED Flashlight

These are a step up from
the CREE flashlight above. I learned about this little gem from some
of you guys, who apparently love them. The reviews on them support that
too. It’s $10 so even though it’s double the price of the one above, I
think it’s a great choice and still super affordable. It also uses AA,
which I love.

3) – MPOWERD Luci Inflatable Solar Lantern

This is an LED lantern that doesn’t require batteries. You just leave
it out in the light and it recharges. Packs to about the size of a
round CD case and has enough light for the inside of a tent or for
around the camp area. Also great as a backup in case your power goes
out, so you don’t have to drool all over a flashlight hanging from your
mouth while you work on things or read.

MPOWERD sent me one of these a few months to review. I
almost declined because it didn’t look like something that a typical
backpacker, camper, or prepper could use but after looking at how
they’ve been used in Africa and other places, I thought I’d give one a
try. I’m glad I did (here’s the review).
These things are definitely one of my favorite things. I pull mine out
any time my neighbors and I are hanging out by the fire on the weekends
and keep it in the top pocket of my personal bug out bag, allowing me to have a lantern that doesn’t need batteries and stay under my 25-pound weight limit.

It’s about 5 inches in diameter and an inch thick when deflated so
make sure it’ll fit in your stocking if you’re gonna go that route. If
not, it’d be pretty easy to inflate and then wrap and have them guessing
as to what’s inside. Do people still do that?

4) – Victorinox Hercules Knife

Every good EDC (Every Day Carry) kit has some sort of knife in it.
This particular one has more than just a knife, and has one of the best
reputations of any product on Earth. It’s one of those gifts that can
easily last a generation. This particular one is almost half off at the time I posted this article. Whatever you do, just make sure you get one with a locking blade.

5) – LifeStraw Personal Water Filter

This is by far the most popular portable water filter on the market. I personally have a few Sawyer Mini Filtration kits for my kit but people seem to really like the LifeStraw because it’s such a simple design. Either one would be a great choice though.

6) – Suunto A-10 Field Compass

Suunto makes great field gear and are especially good with compasses. I use one in my gear. I still have my Army-issue Lensatic tritium compass
but I switched it out for the Suunto when I redid my entire setup. If
your giftee is a traditionalist, they may really appreciate the lensatic
one but it’s definitely more money than the Suunto – a lot more. It’s
great for campers, hikers, preppers, or just people who sometimes get
turned around when trying to find things in town.

7) -Doan Magnesium Fire Starter Tool

Not only are these a great little interesting gift for people
(especially kids or guys who act like kids), this Doan model works
really well. I carry one in my kit. It’s super affordable and something
most people wouldn’t think to get as a gift.

This is important here – DO NOT GET A GENERIC COPY. Get the original Doan model I linked above.
There are a lot of Chinese frauds out there that just don’t work. They
aren’t really much (if any) cheaper than the real thing anyway. Watch
this video to see
why:youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frDMAOlIGaY

8) – Wilderness Solutions Flint and Steel Kit

If you have a friend who’s into traditional things, getting back to nature, or a real do-it-yourselfer, this gift is
great. It’s a traditional flint and steel that have been used for
centuries. It also includes char cloth and some fiber to make it easier
to get things started. This probably isn’t a good gift for a beginning
camper/hiker/survival person but for others, it’s a pretty awesome one.

BTW, I have a post on how you can make your own char cloth in case you’re interested.

9) -P-38 Can Opener & P-51 Can Opener

These things are an absolute perfect stocking stuffer. So cheap that
they’re almost free and they’ll easily last generations. They’re useful
as both a can opener and emergency screwdriver. I keep a P-38 on my
dogtags.

Did you know they’re named the P-38 and P-51 because that’s about how many punctures they make to open a can of C-rations (and because of the fighter planes at the time)?

10) -Encrypted Thumb Drive with info

This one takes a little work on your part. A thumb drive like the one
I linked to above already has encryption on it and is the best choice.
You can also put on your own encryption on it using Bitlocker. If you’re gonna have personal information on the drive, encrypt it.

Once you’ve done that, include a text file with all the pertinent
contact information for your family and close friends, map to how to get
there, and put in some survival and other pdf’s in it in. Don’t listen
to the idiots who say that having electronics is a dumb idea for
survival just because there’s a 0.0000001% chance that an EMP/CME could
wipe out everything and we’d be back in the stone age. You’re more
likely to get hit by a flying cow.

Pole Shift Survival Information is a great place to get thousands of free survival-related documents but if you want it filtered down a bit, check out my What survival/prepper books would you have in your SHTF library? article.

11) – Paracord Bracelet with Fire Starter

Any paracord bracelet out there should work but I like this
particular one because it has a small ferro rod and striker built-into
it. I love double-duty gear. These are almost always a no-brainer gift, especially for guys.

12) – SAS Survival Handbook, Third Edition

I still think this is the best survival book out there. This is the
new 3rd edition. You can get the 2010 edition for a few bucks less but
go with this one.

13) – Ammo

If your giftee is a hunter or into self-defense, ammo is always a welcome gift. There are a few websites like Gunbot.net that automatically update prices from around the internet to find ammo at the best prices. It’s a great site.

14) – Goal Zero Guide 10 Plus Solar Recharging Kit

This is a pretty awesome setup. You can not only charge USB devices
with it, it can charge AA/AAA batteries. It’s a bit more than the other
things on this list but you don’t have to buy AA/AAA batteries anymore.
Just get a few rechargeables and you’re set. I swapped out all my house
remote controls now with rechargeables and use this so I never have to
run to the store in the middle of an intense Call of Duty session or
have to yell at my TV because I can’t get it to listen to my dead
remote.

15) – Yo Yo Fishing Reels

You may not have heard about these but they’re pretty cool. You set
them up above the water and leave them. Once a fish starts to nibble on
the hook, this thing goes into action and sets the hook for you. Watch this, it’s pretty cool:

16) – pStyle for women – pee standing up

These things are great for girls on hiking trips, biking trips, or so
they don’t have to go too far away from the campgrounds to pee. A lot
of girls in Iraq and Afghanistan used things like this on convoys so
they’d have a bit more privacy and could go quickly. It’s a great gift
for outdoor girls.

17) – SOG Seal Pup Knife

I have both versions of the SOG Seal knife. I used the larger one
when I was in Africa, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Once I got home, I wanted a
smaller one to cut down on weight and space in my pack but not
sacrifice having a great survival knife. That’s when I got this one –
the SOG Seal Pup. I carry it in my personal bug out bag or on my belt
when I’m camping or in the desert.

18) – Mini Bic Lighters

A cheap lighter is my go-to fire starting tool. These particular ones
are much smaller so they’re not only useful, they can easily fit in
pretty much any pocket or bag.

19) – Fozzils Bowlz Pack

I really like these. They pack flat so they don’t take up too much
room in a backpack, and weigh almost nothing. They snap together to make
a bowl, plate, or whatever. I personally have the two-bowl set for my
backpack but they have different sets you can get.

20) – Kupilka Cup

These are a favorite of ultralight backpackers and thru-hikers.
They’re a composite of wood and plastic so they’re strong and insulate
well, and they’re designed in a traditional Finnish design. Mine
came with a little spoon with it too, but I’m not sure if they all do.
The link above is the exact link I used to get mine.

21) – Estwing E24A Sportsman’s Hatchet

I debated putting this one on the list due to its size but I think
it’ll actually fit in a lot of stockings so I added it. I came awfully
close to getting the Estwing E24A Sportsman’s Hatchet for my pack but eventually decided on the Fiskars X7 14-inch hatchet
instead, but it was a very close call. For a gift, I’d go with the
Estwing. Not only is it a fantastic hatchet, it’s looks pretty awesome.

22) – Trumark Slingshot

Who doesn’t love a slingshot? This is the model I got for my survival
kit. Not only is it a good design for shooting rocks (not all are), it
has good reviews and holds its ammo inside the handle. Pretty cool!

23) – McNett Outgo Microfiber Towel

I tried a lot of compact towels for deployments over the years and
they all sucked – until I found one of these at the PX in Baghdad one
day. Luckily, you don’t have to go to a PX to get one. They’re
lightweight, inexpensive,and they actually work. Don’t bother trying any other brands because they probably won’t work.

I now have one of these in my backpack (a medium) and one for travel and my workout bag when I go to the gym.

24) – Emergency Blanket

I know you really want to get them a few of those mylar space blankets
instead, but they suck as emergency blankets. The one above is a real
blanket and can be used in real emergencies. The mylar ones don’t last
long and aren’t really blankets. They may be ok as a filler gift but not as a real survival item.

25) – Solo Stove with Backup Solo Alcohol Burner

This is the setup I use in my pack. It gives you the ability to cook with branches, pine cones, or
whatever burnable stuff you find – and also use alcohol. It’s a great
system to make sure you can boil water or be able to cook when you’re
camping or have no power for several days. The Trangia alcohol stove
that comes with it also has a lid so you can keep alcohol in it instead
of having to dump it out when you’re done cooking.

Conclusion

Keep in mind that two is one and one is none so don’t worry if they
already have a version of one of these things. They (and you) should
always have a backup.

There should be several of the ideas on this 25 stocking-stuffer
gift list that you’ll love but you don’t have to limit yourself. Just
use this list as a jumping-off point. You can’t go wrong with these
though.

BTW, if you want the Tactical Christmas Stocking that’s in my main image, you can get them here.

For more ideas, check out 999 freakin’ awesome ideas for your bug out bag. ~ Graywolf

If you’re still stuck after all that (which is possible), just get them a gift card for whatever value you want and let them choose. It’s the perfect fail-safe gift:

Reprinted with permission from Graywolf Survival.

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