Category Archives: Preparedness/What Every Adult Should Have
I read something like the report from Africa where the rape epidemic in the Congo war worsens. Eastern Congo is going through another one of its convulsions of violence, and this time it seems that women are being systematically attacked on a scale never before seen here. According to the United Nations, 27,000 sexual assaults [...]
This is a very disturbing article that connects a number of alarming events. Al Qaeda Targets Our Schoolchildren Some might argue in too imaginative a manner. But then didn’t the 9/11 commission say in its final report that the most important failure was “one of imagination” and that leaders did not understand the gravity [...]
The worse thing that can happen to a policeman is to find themselves suddenly in harm’s way while their loved ones were with them. Why policemen should Prepare for the unthinkable, as though it was inevitable with an amazing story of a police chief shot when his wife was with him and what she did. [...]
Despite the recent experience of Katrina, about 1 in 3 people living in Southern coastal areas said they would ignore hurricane evacuation orders. Why? People believe that their homes are safe and well-built, that roads would be too crowded and that fleeing would be dangerous. Slightly more than one in four also said they would [...]
If you’ve delayed putting away an emergency food supply, now is your time. For only $115, shipping included, you can get 275 servings of food in a weather proof bucket with a shelf-life of 20 years from Costco. Granted all the food is vegetarian, but a shelf-life of 20 years! Order [...]
Dr. Helen Smith, a forensic psychologist and blogger, better known to some as the Instawife, is now an advice columnist, Ask Dr. Helen at Pajamas Media, She’s off to a fast start asking “What should an adult be able to do?” I’ve combined and categorized her answers and those of the commenters and threw in [...]
The Bundle of Warm Clothing by the Door Skirmante was telling me that, during the Russian times, her parents kept a bundle of warm clothing next to the door so that they could grab it if they were arrested in the night and deported to Siberia…. Then asks why classroom doors aren’t equipped with dead-bolt locks on the inside that could be used to prevent another school massacre.
The honey kills bacteria because it is acidic and avoids the complication of bacterial resistance found with standard antibiotics, Jennifer Eddy, a professor at the University’s School of Medicine and Public Health, told AFP…. She tried honey therapy as a last resort six years ago with a 79-year-old diabetic patient who had developed foot wounds resistant to standard treatments.
Do a pre-employment self check While Choicetrust will give you a free annual report, expect to pay about $25 for a national criminal file check or $50 for a search that included employment or education verification that will include information from public records and some courts…. Do a Stolen ID search StolenIDSearch.com, a new free service from TrustedID, lets you find out whether your Social Security or credit-card numbers are among some 2.3 million compromised pieces of identification in its database, which it obtains from organizations that compile lists of numbers recovered in fraud investigations.
I say that not in hindsight or criticism, but in sadness that the best advice one could give a child going to the university would be something like: “You will meet very eccentric people there, with all sorts of problems and strong passions, most of them antithetical to your own…. I am sorry if that sounds pessimistic, but I find it better advice than something like the college brochures’ promises of four years of intellectual and lifestyle stimulation in a cordial tolerant environment.
