• From a recent comment section: Here’s advice from a guy who found himself on the receiving end of other peoples’ hurricane bug-outs.
• A family of six chronicles how and why they live on $28,000 per year.
• Its governor willing, South Dakota will join the states that have (something close to) constitutional carry. Naturally, the brave defenders of the people object. Maybe with good reason.
• “Quietly, Quietly, the Revolution Arrives.” I’ve been saving this up to use in a related ramble of my own. But it’s getting around and Wendy’s essay is too brilliant to neglect.
• Here’s the latest mini-clip from The Hunger Games. Ooooh, this movie’s going to be good! March 23.
• “America Will Need Black Markets to Survive.”
• And finally … your awwwwww moment for today.

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• Real world disaster preparedness. The other day in comments, clark posted this link to a Katrina survivor’s experience and observations. Very much worth a read. I particularly liked this page that sums it all up.
• Simple, clever experiment reveals why we need to keep moving for health’s sake. One of the reasons, anyhow.
• Murphy’s Law. Your chances of a screw-up can now be calculated. Except … er … doesn’t Murphy’s Law ensure that the calculations are likely to be screwed up?
• “Hijacking the General Welfare Clause.” Historical research from wonderful new blogger AgoristDon.
• Better than a cop? Deer saves woman from attacker.
• Of course Bank of America is entitled to raise revenues any way it deems fit. But really, after recent experience, this is astoundingly tone deaf.
• Will stupid Fed policies bring us $200/barrel oil? Duh, we’ll be lucky if that’s all we get.
• Great one from MJR: Meet the man who ended Canada’s gun registry. Bonus points: He’s a legislator who actually listened to his constituents and did his homework.
• The Monkees. Yes, the FBI investigated even that innocuous, TV-made crew of pop-tots.

Some of the above already appeared on my Twitter feed. Apologies to anybody who got the same news from me twice, but I’m trying to strike a miscellany balance between the blog and Twitter.

And finally: The Three Little Pigs as covered in the modern mainstream and alternative media:

(Speaking of Murphy’s Law, this is weird. On the preview of this post, I see the Three Little Pigs video. But when I post it, on my system at least, it turns into the One Happy Dog video I blogged the other day. I’m working on it, but if you see the wrong video, just go here.)

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Not verified. But this (.pdf), from the documents WikiLeaks just released, is a glossary of intelligence terms defined for Stratfor employees.

Check out what they say about the ATF:

Alcohol, Tobacco, and Fire Arms. Rednecks with a license to kill. Never, ever, ever ask for their help on anything.

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A couple of years ago, a young friend asked me to draw this picture of him. At the time, I just wasn’t up to it. Now — just ever-so-slightly belatedly — I’m making a start.

I like it so far. But since I’m now reaching the point where my next step is inevitably to ruin it, I thought I’d post the in-progress version for posterity. :-)

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Don’t forget to show your appreciation to Starbucks, if you’ve got one near you.

(NOTE: Replaced original link with a better one received this morning in email.)

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• Did you know there’s an organization called Dogs Against Romney? And that one of its members just got stopped by a cop for doing (in effigy) what Romney once did to his family dog?
• A courageous colonel busts hierarchy to tell truths about Afghanistan. (Tip o’ hat to M.)
• “Take that, Hobbes!”
• “Less lethal.” Yeah. In other words — more likely to be casually fired at people who irritate the cops.
• Help wanted at the TSA. :-)
• Oh, what to think? It’s a crime and a shame when innocent owners have their assets seized. But can they be called “innocent” when they’ve helped the fedgov seize others’ assets in the past?
• Tell me, please, are you even the teeny-tiniest bit surprised at this so-called news?
• Introducing the government’s latest unpaid spy. (Tip o’ hat to D.)
• Not sure what this implies about the U.S. electorate. But DA, who found the link, thinks it has more to do with feeling disenfranchised than with lack of interest. Might also speculate that in 2008 young people were excited by Obama, while these days the only person who could possibly be excited by him might be Michelle, in bed. And even that’s dubious.

Finally, last week I linked to a new National Geographic series that looked as if it might be about to profile all “doomsday preppers” as laughable loons. H, who first called my attention to it, has watched the first episodes and says it’s nowhere near as supercilious as it might have been.

He does wonder, though, about the wisdom of some of these folks, outing themselves …

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The End of the American Dream recently took apart two of the FBI’s infamous “look for a terrorist under every bed” brochures. You know, the ones that tell members of different professions whom they should report to the fedgov. In this case, one is a literal “look under the bed,” since the brochure in question addresses all us EEEEEvil terrorists who might be checking into hotels and motels.

But as frequent-contributor MJR discovered, all manner of professions get their own terrorist-hunting help from the fibbies. (The differences and similarities between the flyers are fascinating.)

Among other things, tattoo artists — yes tattoo artists! — are advised to suspect (in what has become the FBI’s standard tortured style of English) “People or Groups Who Make repeated returns with multiple individuals requesting identical tattoos.”

Hey, in that case I know nine Dreaded Terrorists who need to be slammed into Gitmo right away! And I’m sure they’re terrorists because in addition to requesting identical tattoos, they’ve also all used multiple aliases (another Sure Sign). At the time they got their suspicious tats, they were going by the aliases Frodo, Samwise, Galdalf, Legolas, Merry, Pippin, Boromir, Gimli, and — the multiple-aliasing obvious EEEEEvil mastermind, Aragorn, aka Strider, aka The Dunedan, aka Longshanks, Wingfoot, Telcontar, Elfstone, and Thorongil.

The Fatherland (Achtung!) is clearly in danger as long as they — and we! — remain on the loose.

And don’t imagine I’m joking. The Fellowship of the Ring really were terrorists, at least from Sauron’s point of view. They wanted to overthrow the government of Mordor, didn’t they? And they hoped to achieve it via a highly destructive sneak attack into the heartland of that realm.

And we. Well, the evidence against us has been overwhelming for some time.

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• If you’re going to the big game today I’m sure this’ll make you feel wonderful, no matter who wins or loses: hot dog vendors with the skills and proclivities of the TSA.
• Of course, if you turn out to be one of the “suspicious” attendees, you won’t feel good at all if they use one of these on you. (And here’s a video.)
• But it could be worse, you know.
• All of which got me to wondering how the fedgov would handle somebody like Lawnchair Larry today.
• Or for that matter, any of us.
• So if you’re going to do something “illegal,” best to do it by proxy. Or Lego. :-)

I fear that in the last couple of days of not posting (deadlining, sorry), I may have lost track of all the hat tips due for links. So hoping I’m not leaving anybody out, thank you’s to P, F, H, and M.)

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