Brave, creative duck farmer trying to reclaim Detroit's urban wasteland

...one duck at at time. Suzanne Scoville raises a flock of ducks for their eggs in the backyard of her Detroit home and plants gardens on the vacant lots that surround her house on the city’s east side. "Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness" it is said. I just hope nobody robs or kills her.

A modest proposal to the whole survival gun/s issue

Gary North the writer and economist who posts a lot at Lewrockwell.com has posed a solution for home defense/survival should American society come unglued. North has put the whole thing simply and elegantly in the form of a four line poem that goes like this:

A .45 for the bedroom,
A shotgun over the door,
A 30.06 for distance,
You don't need any more.

Mr. North obviously thinks he'll never have to use his guns for anything but fending off prowlers, looters, and other riff-raff. He overlooks that a person also may need to shoot a rabid animal, or a rabbit for the frying pan cheaply and easily. A .22 rifle would do nicely for that task. But other than that small quibble he largely has it right.

Paul Bonneau who writes for the Strike The Root.com website among others says very specifically that you need a 9mm pistol, an AR-15/M-4 style rifle, and a semi-automatic .22 rifle. You can read his reasons here.

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The war on raw milk (Jerry Salyer, Front Porch Republic)
Interesting thoughts although I have my doubts about the safety of drinking raw milk myself.

FUD ensues whether or not AQ terror chief was actually killed last week after all (Bill Ardolino & Bill Roggio, Long War Journal)
Stories like this make me appreciate the pains that the Pentagon took in killing Osama bin-Laden last month. Instead of a drone or cruise missile attack a boots-on-the-ground attack by U.S. Navy SEALs was launched. The SEALS shot Osama in the head, took DNA, took finger prints, as well as taking Osama's body just to be sure. And recorded it all as well. But they couldn't do any of this with Kashmiri and so doubt ensues. It doesn't help that AQ was very quick to confirm Kashmiri's death. That was a fast concession on the part of AQ. Too fast, perhaps? Hence the doubt.

Some guy claims to have spotted an alien base on Mars (Annalee Newitz, io9)
Hmm. Somehow I doubt it.

10 Steps to Disaster-Proof Your Life (Code Name Insight blog)
A little paranoia is a good thing IMO.

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The T-shirt says it all

The Bottom line on demographics from Jim Goad - Taki Mag
"Forbidding 'foreigners' from pitching tents on your soil and tapping your women’s asses is part of that ancient and eternal battle over life’s essentials: shelter and pussy. The biblical prophet Ezra realized this, which is why he nixed intermarriage in Israel after he returned from Babylon. He even busted up already existing mixed marriages. It’s sort of de rigueur if you want your tribe to survive. Ironically, strict and unyielding segregation may be the only way to make multiculturalism work."

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We need counterweights not just to Wall Street's toxic products but to its malign influence - The American Prospect (Johnson & Kwak)

How to live out of your car - BoingBoing
Surviving (and thriving) on $12,000 a year - MSN Money