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I had a dream the other night that I didn't understand. A figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three cornered hat and speaking low to me he said, we've fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations this legacy we gave. In this the land of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you we hoped you'd always keep. The tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this the land of the free and home of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money is spent, your children must attend a school that doesn't educate, and your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press, and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've taken Satan's number. You've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm and keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors so their children won't be born. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? Oh, sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God-given right, and pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he'd vanished in the mist for whence he came. His words were true. We are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trampled each god given right, we only watched him tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside in a dream while you were asleep, and wondered what remains of the freedoms he fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave, is to still the land of the free? I cried because I had no magazines, and then I met a man who had no ammo. Well, good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is the Evening Intelligence Report. I'm Mark Kornke. And, to put our knife, one day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both on and behind the lines in occupied territories, west, south, southeast, and north. Well, ladies and gentlemen, you were listening to us on... liberty tree radio dot forum g dot com running with a micro station cv base station indiana free talk radio dot com and ultra net technologies east and west of the mississippi along with alaska were no more network from the top of maine to the bottom of florida From the middle of Florida, goes the arc of the open Mexico, headed Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, big chunk of Nebraska, a whole bunch of Wyoming to include both the 3rd, 5th pit and our friends in the recall state of Colorado. Waving the left coast where we turn back to the east, we sweep across the plains, leap over the burgeoning banks of Mississippi, and land in the Smokies, where the restaurant crews, grandma teams, OK teams, and the Ma Bell Grandma Consortium all the way up there to just under the bottom of Maine are doing their part to bring us the Golden Spike. It's been a perfect day. It went from cloudy to old. It cleared right up, which means we're going to get cold tonight. Not real cold, but we're going to get chill. So pay attention to your environment, kids. It's been a beautiful spring day here in Michigan. BK, what's it like in your neck of the woods? What's the day today? What's jumping off the wall, sir? Go ahead. It is 23 May 2014. It is Friday evening. It is the last day of the day and the week for the intelligence report and that makes this quarter-masters corner. And spring was last week. That's the way things work in the Midwest. Spring is about two weeks long and fall is about two weeks long. Those are both great. Then we get into summer and we just steam and sweat and ooze and wait until September or October to come around and have a couple of weeks of fall before winter again. It really hasn't hit too badly. We only peaked around 78-79. It's already getting into the warm and steamy and we're at the point where you want to throw towels over the furniture so that you don't make puddles of sweat on the exposed wood and things of this sort. So we're back in summer mode. Oh well. Spring was nice while it lasted. Oh, by the way, let me address a word to PC buyers the world over. Don't buy freaking all-in-one PCs, please. I just finished working on one and man, those are worse than laptops. Really? Oh yeah, even laptops let you get to the memory and the hard drive fairly easily. All in once they're the worst of all worlds. You have to pull everything apart to do anything. There's only about 50 or 60 screws until you start to get things to come loose. Man, I hate them. They can't all use the same size screws. They've got three or four different sizes of screws. You never keep them straight. You can lay them out. You can lay them out on plates and sheets of cardboard and paper and make notes and say this one came from this corner and that one came from that corner. You always end up with three or four leftover screws when you're done. Fortunately, they still work, but they're horrible. I'm sorry. Just don't buy them. Somebody gives you one for free. That's different, but don't. If the price is right, in other words, free. Yeah, zero. And it works. If you have to invest something in it, don't. Okay, now this is something that I wanted to put up last week and I kind of flew off in a different direction and we didn't get to it. I don't know whether it's still current or not, but last week, as of last week, Aldi was back in the solar yard light business, only this time instead of individual lights for $1.97 or $1.79, what they had was six packs for $10, $9.99. These are, I am told, one of our friends grabbed some of these and examined them and gave me a detailed report, exactly the same as the ones they were selling individually before, but somewhat disassembled so that half of them pack into, half a dozen pack into a box that's less than six times the individual ones. So you have to do a little bit of minor assembly when they come. But our friend played with them, charged them up, ran them indoors. This kind of stuff was quite pleased that they ran a long, long time and so on. I picked up a couple of six-packs. I haven't opened them. But I am willing to rely on his examination and reviews. So those were available at Aldi's store as of last week and probably this week. They had bunches of them here so I think they kind of saturated the market. They were no longer pushing off the shelves at an insane rate but they had a bunch. Six of them for $10. That's $1.67 a piece. That's not bad at all guys. All these stores, the eastern two thirds of the US has all these stores. The westernmost third, well, maybe somebody else serves that purpose. All these, Solar Lights, $6.00, $4.00, $10.00 as of last week and probably still, check one near you and see whether they are available. Comments? Again, those are a useful tool. I've got three of them sitting right next to me here that are the round ball type. And again, left in the window with a fixture the way we set it up, guys. They are basically illuminating both the outside area beyond the window and the great night lights. Also for perimeter lighting. can't stress enough, more of these are better. I would also point out that whatever we can send, if you can send a package into the Bundy Ranch, I haven't checked to see if Aldi's has an ordering system that is internet. That's the one thing I haven't checked. To the best of my knowledge, no. I've looked at their various websites and so on. They're fairly light, they're minor promotional sites. They rely a little bit more on the flyers and things like that. But I'm willing to give you a qualified no on that one. Very good. Okay, again, that means you've got to go to the store and pick them up. But they're definitely worthwhile. We've grabbed some of every one that have been on sale. I will say this, that they put them out and they didn't last. They were gone. For whatever reason everybody scarfed them up as quickly as they could and again, people are learning. We saw that sort of wave here when they first came out just foop gone, you know, and then they brought out more and then they foop a little bit slower and then gone and then they brought out these six packs and they're moving but you know, they've slowed down a little bit. So maybe they have saturated the regular, all these visitor market. So it means more for us. All we have to do is get there. That's a good price. These are brand new items. They have a little plastic tab that you pull out when you're inclined to start using them. If you leave a little plastic tab in there, they probably have a nearly unlimited shelf life. I imagine the tab breaks the circuit and keeps the battery out of circuit. I'm willing to wager that that is a NiCad battery as opposed to any of the other There is another vendor. This is not very tactical or anything like that, but I was just sniffing around thinking about a project for my workbench, making some little cabinet type things for parts and whatnot. You can imagine the horrible mess that old BK's workbench is. Remember the worst mess you've ever seen and mine is probably deeper. I'm always looking for ways to organize stuff. I was thinking about maybe I've built little cabinets and things like that. I'll make the hinges and plasps and this kind of stuff. Did a little bit of hunting around and stumbled across a pretty neat vendor. I ran this one past one of our friends who sort of consumes these things in quantity as part of his business and he says, well, I can't tell the quality of this stuff from the website, but prices look pretty good. Now I personally have an account with so and so. That's to be expected that somebody sort of in the business would have an ongoing merchant type account or cash account or whatever you want to call it. But as far as straight up sales to regular people on the internet and so on, the site that I found is called dlawless.com. That is the letter D, like in Delta, and then lawless, L-A-W-L-E-S-S dot com. One of the things that I found pretty neat was that they have links to a secondary site that they maintain called HingeDummy.com where they explain all sorts of stuff about the different variations of cabinet hinges available and whatnot. That was useful because I didn't know a lot of that stuff. So, I have not actually moved forward with that project I made at some point in the future. But when I come across an interesting vendor like this, I figure I'll trot that out. If you have routine operations that, you know, not everything that we do is, you know, all of that flashy, noisy, smoke making, you know, extraordinary stuff. There's a lot of routine things that we do on a daily basis, getting stuff together and making household work. Lawless carries hinges and drawer slides and hasps and latches and drawer pulls and all of that sort of routine stuff. It's sort of a sideline for them. They do cabinet making work and undoubtedly buy this stuff a case at a time for every type. And so they're willing to sell some of this stuff on the side. and looking at their site, they seem fairly friendly to the small scale operator. If you want four of this and two of that and so on, they'll sell it to you. The prices are a half or a third of what you will find on other sites. www.dlawless.com I'm going to run that one out and our friend who's sort of in the business of consuming these things thought, yeah, those prices are not bad. So, you know, that's a bit of an endorsement. Comments? No, no, hardware. One of the big things we're going to have to be paying attention to if you've got anything that needs to be finished off or, you know, repaired, now's the time to do it. With regard to spares in certain categories, for example, we're going to be building up cabinets for the RO's workstations out at the Bundy Ranch. We're accumulating all the components, guys. Cheaper, more for less is what you're looking for. So again, picking, structuring, and designing in advance, and even palletizing it so you put in place when the time comes. All of these things need to be taken into consideration. Right now, I'm trying to find my barn hinges. but I also need a series of small, in fact, you know, cabinet, I've got a whole pile of cabinet connectors and such. Those are things I'm trying to sort out right now. I've made a bunch of extra work because I've got to have those items squared away, counted out, in place, and in the kits for what we're going to do. Whenever you can, palletize this stuff. They have it squared away so it's counted out. You know what you need. You can always put a spare in every one. I highly recommend that. Put a spare in and tape it to the work site. In other words, make sure everybody understands spares are in this spot. It's like hitting a button on a well made shirt. There's always an extra button on there. Same sort of principle. Yeah, they usually like suits. You'll find in a good suit company they have an extra front button and they even have any of the smaller pocket buttons to stitch right into the suit, guys. That's how you need to be thinking about putting your equipment together. One of the things that we do is like with spare hinges, spare controls or handles or whatever, make a kit and mark the kit. Spares, you know, stay with spares. They stay here. I put that right on the outside of the container. It goes with the equipment. It's IDed to the equipment, you know, like for instance, say Radio Shack or it'll say, you know, medical area. These are mechanical support for maintenance because it's always an issue. Stuff always gets broken. Things come loose. People don't do what they're supposed to do. Then it gets pulled apart. Then they can't find what got pulled apart. Well, that's why you have the extras that match what you used in place. Nuts, bolts, and screws are one of those items you need to have in a repair kit. and they should be with the specific group, not just like, oh I got a maintenance unit over there. No, you need the equipment right where it's being used and needs to be kept with it. And that's why, like I said, duct tape it or tape it to the site so that it's stuck there. That's the best way to do it. Just again, be creative, but think ahead. Go ahead, BK. Yeah, okay, so some of our friends in chat are saying, well, you know, I've had really bad results with the Chinese nightcads. They don't last very long and all this kind of good stuff. Okay, sounds to me like I probably ought to uncork one of mine to stick it out into the yard and see how it goes. Worst case, get some additional NYCABs and have them on the shelf. This is one of the sorts of things that we probably ought to have as a routine basis anyway as fairs. That's not a bad idea to field test these things and see what their in-service lifetime is. Now, when we're in the topic of imported consumable goods, I have again had another adventure in that area. I routinely wear black colored jeans as part of my work uniform when I'm going out to see customers and running around shopping and all this kind of good stuff. I have been in the habit of using the regular vendors in the US, Lee Wrangler, that kind of stuff. I recently switched to another pair because I wear them out and they develop these little tears and so on. Eventually they go into the pile that's the garden clothes, the ones that are a little bit extra ventilated and you don't mind getting all muddy and sloppy and so forth. I switched to a new pair and this new pair didn't last more than three or four weeks and suddenly developed all of these incredible There are little places where there is a little fold in the material that just war straight through. I found these terrace places that I normally find them. The little watch pocket developed a little slice right across it. I've never had a watch pocket fail. They open up in the crotch, the knees open up. All of the usual places where there are some stresses in wear. but this pair just absolutely disintegrated. So I said, okay, that's enough for a wrangler. I mean, you know, this stuff is practically worn out the day you get it because it's such thin material and, you know, who knows what country they're making them in now, but they're sure not making them in the US and so on. And I did a little bit of research to find out what you have to do to get a pair of jeans that are made in the US, or at least the US specs. What I found is that both Wrangler and Levi's will sell you a special edition blue jeans made in the US for only $120 or $180 a pair respectively. Now, I can kind of understand that manufacturing costs are going to be a little higher in the US than abroad. You don't have the slave labor, you're actually paying people something to do the work and you don't get to push them to the point where they sew their fingers into the goods every couple of days and so on and so forth. But I'm sorry, that ratio is just ridiculous. That is a gimmick price. So I went humming and I have seen ads recently from an outfit called Duluth Trading. advertising approach is we produce high quality goods and they are made in the US or that's available and we produce t-shirts that are a little bit longer so you won't suffer a plumber's crack and we put gussets in the jeans so that you won't squeak when you take too long a step and you know think of this sort. So I took a look at those and found that at Duluth Trading you can get standard style jeans made to US style specs for $65 a pair. The fine print is that these are still made abroad but at least to their specifications. And you can get the same things made in the US for $85 a pair. Holy moly! But at least that's not $120 to $180. So, I actually did get one pair of the $65 set and I am wearing them now. You don't get as wide a variety. What's the gentle term that we use, relaxed fit? The cruder way of describing BK's style of jeans is wide load. You don't get the extreme variety. You choose a way of sizing. You may be a little bit tighter here, a little bit looser there than you are accustomed to. I have to say they are well made. So, the $65 imported ones are the ones that I've tried out. This is at least a step in the right direction. They're sort of attacking the same market that used to be occupied largely by L.L. Bean and Land's End. Now, Land's End was bought out by Sears and when that happened I thought, oh man, they're done for. And they actually held the line for a long, long time. They retained their product lines and maintained their quality levels and all that kind of good stuff for a long while. They have started to slide a little bit. For instance, some of the staple items are suddenly going out of availability seasonally. It used to be you could buy the short sleeve shirts year round or the long sleeve shirts year round. They just have those. Those are just standard items and that's that. Now, they've got the computers involved and they're predicting demand and they're trying to optimize and shave their inventory. That's just the beginning of the slippery slope. A 24-hour restaurant chain that suddenly goes to being 22 hours, you know they're done for shortly. Land's End is starting to slide down that. They are not useless but they are degrading a little bit and Duluth trading appears to be attacking from the front and becoming a new player in that market. What I can tell people is not that there are any great bargains here unless you get a 30% off promotion or something along this line, but you are actually There's at least the ability to buy something that appears to be well made and fairly solid. So that's my report on their product line comments. One of the things, for instance, let's see, tractor supply has a cheaper blue gene that's out there. It's not as heavy, but it's serviceable. Finding American, like you said, is the biggest problem. What you want are actually traditional work cut. if you can find them. Wranglers, probably were the best for that. For the longest time, wranglers stuck to their basic jean. The biggest problem is all the wholesalers that I know that used to carry the American work cut wranglers, pretty much they're gone. But wholesale, I could easily find them for $10 a pair for the longest time. And again, a very reasonable vote, excellent price. Right. What kicked me off here was a pair of Wranglers that just disintegrated in no time flat. Yeah, exactly. To whatever degree they've been shaving the material, they pushed it one step further and it's just a cut too far. The problem is they're really comfortable cut, as in kind of airy. real quick and then the second wearing it's it's just about over the hell yeah and that's what the one thing that with the other option i was going to mention is the uh... although it's not for everybody but the wholesaler still have foreign military and some u.s. military import you hardly see american dungarees they're made to u.s. milspec those are navy dungarees uh... that that's one of the few places where that the true gauge depth of the well but everything you know that the construction of the material is correct. If you see them guys or if you got somebody that's in service, ask them to see if they can access them for if you're in the Navy. I know that there aren't as many people or they run into naval personnel but they're out there and they may have a link to either surplus they can buy direct from clothing sales or from one of the service you know sites. The other thing is most military facilities Navy, Army, Marine, Air Force have rummage sale points for families to sell stuff. And almost always guys sell their wrong size or their older uniforms because we've changed uniforms. And you will find that on the Navy sites it's dungarees, TANS and Class A's. Because a lot of guys change rank or they get a commission or whatever, they sell all of their old Class A's and somebody else can take advantage of it, especially officers dress mess and NCO's dress mess uniforms. Those are very unique. Usually everybody paid top dollar. You want to get some money back. Well, blue jeans, dungarees, and BDUs are the same way. People usually put them out there and force them. If you're lucky and somebody is on post and they're a relative, ask them to check. They are nothing fancy. Again, Navy dungarees are work pants. They are work blue jeans, but they are a nice cut. They are done with the original rivets. They will be spec. I don't know who is making them. It might be communist Chinese there too for all we know. It would be worth checking out. That is a consideration. Military surplus sales for family to independent. Usually they give them an A building on post, it's usually one of the old post buildings, the old double storied military barracks, or it's a headquarters building that's been abandoned that's of the old style. And they let them use that for a retail sale, a rummage sale. Anybody can put stuff in there and then what they do is they collect the money and they get a percentage for base operations, for parties or for sports supplies, things like that. The people benefit are able to put money back into their pocket. That's a place to look. It's not necessarily going to be a lot of stuff there. I don't know. Militaries will fit in thin and long like they were years ago back when Carter was in, guys. So, again, ask your family members. You never know. You might find out, oh, yeah, I could get those. I didn't know you were interested. Oh, hell yes. So, just something to look at. Also for camouflage the same way. Go ahead, BK. Yeah, one of our friends recommended Carhartt. HART, there are two T's there. It looks like they have some competition in that field in the $40 to $60 range. That may be a useful option as well. I can't give you any review on those, but I may investigate those. We'll see how these guys hold up and how soon I need the next pair. Today was Dad's Day out. Every once in a while I spring dad from the old folks' home and we go running madly around town or perhaps we just go out for lunch in a movie. Today we saw Godzilla movie. Well, okay, that's not a bad movie. It's kind of fun. It's in 3D and all that sort of stuff. They must figure that one is a real blockbuster and they can charge whatever they want on that guy. I have a couple of comments to make. First off, I'm not spoiling things too much by saying this is going to be Godzilla versus another monster movie. It's not so much Godzilla rampaging through Tokyo this time. It's Godzilla versus the giant cockroaches and they duke it out. So, a couple of things. When we see these 3D movies, we are issued glasses with some interesting polarization in the glasses to enable the 3D effect. When they are done, they say, make sure you recycle the glasses. We don't reuse the glasses, but we recycle them. Well, if they say that they're recycling the glasses, then I feel no guilt whatsoever if they somehow accidentally find their way into my pocket and go home. People that are into photography will understand what I mean when I say these are not high density glasses, they are maybe one or two f-stops. They are polarized oddly. There's a circular polarization effect in these things. But they are sunglasses and they cost nothing. They are large enough to go over regular glasses. They cost $0.00, BK's favorite number for things. If they should fall off your face and get stepped on and broken, nobody's going to cry. If people are in a high intensity bright area and they do not already have better sunglasses, anything you buy will be better. If you don't already have better sunglasses, these might be better than nothing and the cost is zero. So, if you're seeing movies or know anybody who is, or if friends of ours happen to be working in theaters that recycle large sacks full of these used one-time glasses and so on, who knows, might be a useful thing to have either in a cache or heading out to places that are very, very sunny. and large numbers of people who might not all have sunglasses might find them of some use. What do you think? Repeat? I'm sorry. You faded off for a second and just with a little earpiece. I don't know why. It's something with the phone. Repeat again. Okay. Anyway, I was pointing out that these sunglasses are polarized glasses. Yeah, okay. That's why I caught that part. Okay. Yeah. It's weird. It kind of went like whoop and disappeared and compressed on me. All right. No, the idea of, again, with the overglasses, being able to use them as an overglass? Yeah, they are large enough and bulky enough to go over a pair of glasses. Now, if I were doing handsprings, I would expect them to come loose. They're not the most tailored things. They're intended to be large enough to fit anybody. They actually do work for that. One of the things about those is, remember, they've also offered them in pretty much any number of tents. We had an option to go with any combination of colors, but they were intentionally engineered that way depending on the year with a model. And again, they golfer typically also side shielding, which is again, the wraparound glass is the big thing right now with by itself. But if you have glasses, secondary shielding anyway. There's two things that that does. Number one, it's a safety glass to begin with. If it's polarized, it can be smoke, green, yellow, or clear. It's still a big advantage because it eliminates wear and tear on your primary lens. And I think everybody needs to be thinking this way. Your military goggles, the old style dust goggles, guys, if you were paying attention, you'll notice that they had perforation and lock points for using glasses with those. depending on the model, I used to get these by the ton from the donor destruction as rubber scrap. They were in excellent condition. And there are several models. Well, eventually they figured out, well, I guess a lot of people are wearing either sunglasses or wearing real glasses. So they put an accommodation point in there. Most of the larger safety lenses or safety glass systems pretty much will do the same thing. And again, you can always pick for oversized anyway, like you're saying. The big thing is, remember, we're not going to be able to replace glasses. Remember how it used to be, well, I mean, BK, you're old enough and I'm old enough. Guys, when we bought a pair of glasses, don't mess them up. Mom and dad weren't going to be very happy. You know what I mean? Unfortunately, I didn't have to wear them when I was a kid. I only started wearing them when I was much, much older than that. But I went through the same learning curve even though I was doing it as an adult. And these are of course not made to the same specs and so on. But these are so cheap at $0.00 and 0 cents. And they're not super duper dense, very, very dark and all this kind of good stuff. But for a couple of that stops, I think it's much better than going out there with your naked little eyes in bright sunlight. The important thing is that saving and preserving the glasses, especially prescription glasses, save all your old ones. because you don't know what's going to happen here down the road. Replacing them is going to be a problem. If you do need glasses for either reading, reading is a little easier because there's all kinds of China Sport lenses out there. But for distance, you had better be saving and in fact should be buying spare lenses now. Should be buying spare even if they're China Sport because that's mostly what these inexpensive systems are that are out there. They're China Sport design and even the system itself is built over in communist China. They bring them over here. You start a glasses company up and you know they're chains like this now. But back in the day it used to be again the lenses were the big thing. Frames are expensive enough but even if you did want to change glasses typically what you used to try is to find something where you could take your original prescription and put it into another frame. Usually it's the frames that would eventually tire out. We're going to have to be prepared for protecting the lenses just like even any of our other optics, our night vision, our scopes or whatever. In this case, the safety glasses are again, are something where I pile up and save all of them that I can. The oversized sunglasses for the same reason, because there's a lot of old style stuff that was much bulkier. And or as we've said, the gramma glasses, you know, the down in Florida, they're still popular and the UV glasses are actually quite useful. There are heavy UVs that are like, man, are those welder's goggles? No, those are for grandma down in Florida where they have a problem, you know, they have eye sensitivity, that kind of thing. Those do come in handy. Another thing about dark, dark glasses, something to take into consideration here, guys, we're talking about doing patrolling our operations on a 24 o'clock. Or if you're in the field and you're stuck out there in a 24 environment, if you're during the day but you have to rest, without losing a hundred percent of your sight like using a nightshade or a do-rag or something like that to cover your eyes. The sunglasses like that offer a reasonable amount of shading but immediately you're able to perceive and see what's going on without total obstruction of vision. And that's kind of a nice thing too to think about. So just another heads up there on that. Go ahead, BK. Another observation I have from the Godzilla movie is that early Yes, early on in the film we see one of the prime characters is exploring the supposedly radioactive area where a reactor got all crunched up. And he's out there in his NBC gear with his radiation meter and gas mask and so on. And guess what he's wearing? A Canadian C3 mask. Isn't that interesting? The Canadian C3 mask uses the 60mm filter and is still currently available. If you see the movie, you'll see that it actually fits on human heads and does work and so on. I will mention once more that we can still get 60mm filters in quantity by the case from Numbrich. That's GunPartsCorp.com. You can get a case of 45 of these 60 millimeter filters for $150 plus a little bit of shipping. Works out to about $4 per filter and you're not going to touch that anywhere. Those are used by the fin masks which are becoming very, very scarce on the ground but they're also used by the Canadian C3 masks. which are also currently available from Numbrich at $14.20 for a mask and filter. So that's not bad. That's not bad. It's not what we were paying for the fin masks, but it's not all that much more than we were paying for the fin masks. And those are perfectly good masks. And if you want something that's sexier, you can go with a 40 millimeter. They also have the M65 Bundeswehr masks. They take a 40mm filter, they have a 40mm filter in the pack, and they do come in a pretty cool plastic can. Instead of a gas mask bag, they carry these around in a plastic can with a strap. That, however, will set you back $24, which is not the hundreds of dollars that you can expect to pay from one of the industrial outfits with a fancy full one lens. industrial style masks and so on and so forth. It is a little bit more than we're accustomed to. It is going to seem cheap on down the road when we see what happens to the overall market as these available supplies get zapped out. So GunPartsCorp.com still has the fin filters. Now remind people if you've got an investment in 60 millimeter masks, get another case of the filters. If you had say 20 masks, a whole case of filters can sound like a lot. It's only two filters per mask. So you're deepening your inventory by only two filters per mask. You think that a mask can last more than three, four, five filters of use? I think it can. You can use another case of filters. You can get those. You can also get the C3 masks if you don't have anything that uses 60 millimeter or don't have enough to justify it or enough for all the people etc and so forth. And if you really need to have a 40 millimeter system the M65s are also available there. So comments. Oh no, again by the way real quick GunPartsCorp.com, GunPartsCorp.com, something that they have added to the inventory guys which is on the front page, featured products. They have the gas mask of course, but something that they've added here, BK. Signal flare, four star, 26.5 millimeter. These are a box of 30 for $210. Yeah, I saw that. $7 a pop. Yeah, that's the newer flare though. That's the one that actually will go a little higher and there's less recoil with that particular flare. That's one of the newer flare designs. It is old inventory by their standard because it is surplus, 1980s. But this is the longer projectile. This actually, depending on your flare launcher, if you've got a 26, this may stick out a little bit. It won't make any difference. But this also reaches a little higher and it's softer. It's less felt recoil. So $7 a unit. That includes shipping though. Now one thing they did point out if you read the fine print, That includes all of your hazmat fees and everything else. And that's usually what really, again, bites. And it does. It's the problem with all the BS. Post 9-11, try to screw with everybody and fumble things up any way they can. That's where that fee came from. Otherwise, this stuff used to be shipped no different from anything else. There weren't any accidents. There weren't any problems. It's all BS. It's just another way to screw you out of more money. That's all the government is doing and that's what they're all about. They're not making any safer. They haven't done anything to change anything except to make it more obnoxious and to charge people BS money for everything. So, in this case, this is a newer batch. They're German. They're the newer pattern. Don't be surprised when you put them in any of the launchers of the Polish, the Romanian, or the check they are and even the german ones they're designed to stick out a little bit because they are a different propellant or you know a launch system the way they're set up the uh... you know the area that nothing around all loaded you put it in any plenty is it so great exactly these are in these are again not the only thing about these you'll fit quite comfortably into the uh... uh... grenadiers kits that are available three over for the the molly system so you've got a caring system out there use these with that's already built. In fact, Gov Liquidation and all the others are offering the entire package of pockets for a Grenadier kit in ACU and they're cheap. I mean they're really cheap. Stupid cheap to the point where they're useful. Now I'm going to gas pass real quick. Any of the masks that they're offering, pretty much everybody's had a chance to sample them. I've had no complaints from anybody here locally that have been showing them to me. They said, hey, these things are like new or close enough. You won't know the difference. And as far as the filters go, you can't beat the price. We can't emphasize that. We've asked people to ship stuff out or some of these out to the Bundy's as far as the filters. I don't know if anybody has. That's one of those logistics things that is kind of like the odd man out. We'll find out more again when our people are on the ground the next wave because they're going to be doing a running inventory of everything. We're going to find out what's left, what's there, what's been disappeared, whatever. But we're also going to check on stuff that was odd man out that probably even the average person there wouldn't be interested in. Well, I don't know why we got that. Well, you're going to find out. And gas masks the same way. We didn't care. The idea was to get this stuff deployed, get it out there, we'll straighten that out. That's going to be taken care of. But for your own personal use, guys, get a gas mask now. Get a gas mask now. I don't care what other idiots have told you. I could care less about them. I'm going to tell you from experience, everybody needs a mask. I guarantee you any assault of that site is going to include CSE and Eternacapsium. Exactly. And that's not an... maybe you've already looked at... okay, here's the thing. Go to YouTube. Watch all the videos of the Ukraine. Okay? Go to YouTube. Watch all the videos of Occupy. Okay? In the US. Now you tell me, look at the videos of Greece. What do you think all that fogginess is? Why do you think the pictures aren't so clear? What do you think is hanging in the air? If you watch the Ukraine events for the last six months, guys, you'll notice that the lion's share of the people out there had gas masks on. Do you think they were doing that for the fun of it? Can I break in real quick? Go ahead, jump in there, color, please. This is South Dakota. This is Danny. I just want to go back just real quick before you go about sunglasses. I'm not going to give you a website, but I'll tell you a brand, hell raiser, safety glasses. They're UV protective. I get them from Aox Welding over here. They're about five to seven bucks on the internet. I get them for about six bucks, five and a half, six bucks here. And they're cheap and they kind of wrap around. They're good glasses. They last a long time. Be careful if you buy any glasses like that. Make sure that you can see red lights, tail lights, stop lights. Be careful. Look at the green ones. They're black. They're really good glasses. It's Hellraiser brand? Is that the name of Hellraiser? Just type it on Yahoo or Google Hellraiser safety glasses. You know, you're probably getting cheaper online. We can company might have them outside till about a year after I was even. I was like, oh look, there's something here. Hey, I didn't mean to. Anyway, I appreciate you guys. Thank you. I'll get out of here because you guys got to close out and Thank you. Thank you guys. add it to the programming because this is how we find out about equipment. Sometimes we even recommend stuff because hey the price looks right but if it's going to explode or fall apart, I mean as soon as you pick it up we understand maybe you know input's good. People usually use this stuff in work environments. You're beating on it constantly. You put it over your, I know how you use it, you got to take it off, you put it over the top of your baseball cap, it slides off. Well if it doesn't bounce well it's nice to know. If it can take abuse, that's a good thing. The other thing too is how user-friendly is it? Also, I do not recommend a zero cost field expedient as your be all and end all solution. I suggest these as a work around to plop up your breadth of inventory until you get something better. Yeah, and to put into the stuff bags in places where you got, again, you've got extra equipment where you don't have anything because you may show up bare butt naked. Go ahead, call or jump in there, please. Just one quick one. CDN Investments. Thank you. Appreciate that. I'm going to check it out. I hadn't thought about going to CDN on those. CDNNinvestments.com. Let's see, earlier today some people were mentioning Honeyville Grain and we have mentioned them in the past usually whenever they are running a 10-20% offer. They are not running any such offer at the moment to my knowledge but they are convenient in that if you place an order they have very low shipping. It used to be $4.49 for any order, now it's $4.99 per order. the degradation of our distribution system is making itself known even from the people that keep the costs to the minimum. Now normally I tout them as a source of one of these not very sexy but useful staple goods. I have frequently called them out as the source to get the powdered egg, the old-fashioned standard variety powdered egg. Like, you are probably accustomed to, or were accustomed to getting in the Army Mess Hall, in the College dorm, etc. One of the things we used to do is we'd point out that you could buy a 50-pound bulk pack for about, started out around $180 when you first were touting it and it slowly oozed up to about $250 or so for that 50 pounds. That's not on their site anymore. Now they offer only the number 10 cans. The number 10 cans are about $20 for about 2 pounds. So it's about $10 a pound and that works out to about $500 for 50 pounds. So what you used to be able to get for $250 and you have to repack it yourself in some sort of jars or whatever it is, now runs about $500. So it's just about double for the convenience of the number 10 cans. Of course that's being targeted towards the people that are doing long term storage as opposed to immediate use. You can still of course order anything you want and have it shipped out to the Bundy Ranch and I certainly encourage people to do that. But when we told you to buy this powdered egg, well you should have listened to old BK when we did because that is no longer and option from them. I did a little bit of sniffing around on the web looking for alternate sources of the same stuff. I found some outfits that are willing to sell you 50 pound boxes of a powdered egg. The lowest price I found was $750 for a 50 pound box. So, the $250 that they were offering was far and away the best price out there and you can no longer get that. Currently the best you can do is about double that. And the very nice but more expensive number 10 can, packaging. Oh well. So, let me point out that one of my ideas of a very good field food is plain old fashioned granola. Believe it or not, there's a fair amount of energy in there. There's some bulk, there's fiber so you don't end up with these horrible plumbing problems and so on. You can make it yourself from the raw materials. The main materials involved in granola are rolled oats, which is very simple and straightforward. Any old kind of nuts that you might have, if you have any in your stores, you might want to cycle them out because they don't keep forever. There might be a slight rancidity problem. You have to decide whether that's useful in spite of that or not. Load up on a little bit of vitamin C, if so, to counteract that. Any sort of nuts that you might have, crunch them up and throw into the mix. The other major ingredients are typically some brown sugar and some maple sugar and a little bit of oil and salt. and the recipe is very simple. You mix it all together, you make it a little bit turning routinely in order to sort of glue everything together and then you let it cool and you're done. Or, I would suggest you get it all hot and gloopy and sticky like that and smoosh it all together into a rectangle and chop it up into blocks and make bars out of it for near-term use. You can make granola or granola bars considerably cheaper than the manufactured stuff in the grocery store. Even the grocery store style stuff is not too bad in terms of a dollar per pound basis, but it's certainly a lot more than raw materials. rolled oats are not expensive if you buy them in bulk. You'll have to scrounge around and decide what you can tolerate for nuts, you know, almonds or whatever it is that you can find. And brown sugar is not expensive. A little bit of maple syrup is, real maple syrup is more expensive than the fake stuff. I would say use the real stuff. It doesn't take all that much per pound of granola. And if you wanted to, You can sniff around for your favorite sort of recipe for that. Pick out the major ingredients on Honeyville and have that shipped to them. And send them a note saying, you know, expect an order that contains this, that, and the other thing, my intention is that you can make granola and issue that to people. How's that? So there is an available option and an idea, another way to use the Honeyville site now that the powdered egg thing is sort of passé. Comments. I was just looking at something else here real quick before we move too far away from Honeyville. One of the things that they've got, I mentioned this earlier, and it's in the special section. There's a couple things in the special sections that are pretty decent. Wise 60 serving freeze dried meats. It's in the transport bucket. Basically that's one of those kitty litter buckets only in green, or well, green gray. It looks like these are in the generic pouches. There's no labeling per se on them, but they're showing. Or else they just use a generic image. But it's 60 of the serving packs for $99.99 apiece for the bucket. I would point out that that particular package, remember, is only $4.99 to ship wherever it's going to go. So right now with a special the way it is. So that's a pretty decent price for anybody who's looking for an add-on kit for you Minutemen. In other words, you've got your backpack stacked up, you've got everything else ready to go. This would be something, the convenience of this is that you grab the bucket, it's already loaded, it's in its own container. and for again deployment purposes this is a very handy item for all of you to have. Another cool thing it's one of those items that's already in the store you can go out to the retreat, it can go into the cash and it's completely self-contained. It's already got a container, everything's in an individual serving pouch so you've got a second layer of protection the whole nine yards. So again this is a cool idea. It's a reasonable price again it's true about a hundred thirty dollars what they're going for and it's wise freeze-dried foods and why is you can pretty well gauge that. Go around to the different companies, take a look at the present price. You only have another five dollars for shipping, you can't beat that with a stick. And of course if you do more than one, it's still only five dollars shipping. So the more you buy in the sales items or whatever you're going to pick, the more you save. The shipping is the issue. Shipping is a bite right now. Shipping is one of the key issues that we're having to look at with the Bundy deployment, but it's true with regard to resupply or anything else that you do. So just again, keep that in mind. Go ahead, we've got a few more minutes before we're gone. Let's see. One of my favorite kinds of work is the kind that I volunteer other people to do. So at the risk of being accused of volunteering other people to do it, I had a thought. If you have ever dealt with PayPal, one of the things that may not be immediately obvious is that when somebody sends you money, it doesn't just arrive automatically. You have to actually accept the money. You can get a payment that will be pending for a little while, and you can leave it not yet accepted if you see fit to do so. I don't know whether Don is up to speed in doing the PayPal thing and so on. but it might not be an infeasible thing to say, have him create an account and suggest that people that might want to donate $5 here, $20 there, when the total reaches $350 or $325 or whatever it is, then a piece of night vision goes down range to the funders. What do you think? Actually, again, that's one of the things that we're, there's been a discussion about deployment, additional deployment. Yes, that would work. The big thing is, again, finding we need to find, we're trying to work this out with a sponsorship mechanism, which is another part of the formula for trying to bring that forward. Sort of doing our own little version of Kickstarter, but without any of the corporate involvement. Exactly. So we're going to work, actually, we're working on that right now. That's also true of the radio equipment. I found another package deal, which I think if we can get people to work this out, in multiples of three and six. I didn't know that these existed, but actually if you go to DealXtreme, again there's all these little nooks and crannies. There is a way that we could actually set up an account mechanism and save what little shipping costs there are with that. It's actually direct cost. We could stack up the multi-purchase this way and actually shave $3, $4, $5 off and save the shipping. There's other ways we can do this with a sponsorship mechanism. We're working this with another company right now. so that we can save probably six or seven dollars per order with the shipping by gang shipping the stuff. In other words, we want to keep it, you know, the one thing about shipping with UPS, Postal Service or whatever, is you have a base price weight. You know, you get to a certain point and then it's like, oh, you're overweight now and now we look at a totally different scale. But as long as you get up to the border of that, get right up to the edge of that weight range, the standard set price for shipping, you have an initial fee and then you have weight fee. Well, you don't have that initial fee times six, seven or eight orders. I know a lot of people have been doing that and we needed to do it. But if we can come up with an arrangement with some of these companies, we'll bring it up on the air and we'll be able to work it in such a way that we could actually buy more goods for less money. We're focusing on the equipment, not on the shipping. That's why I can't point out enough guys. $4.95 for up to a truckload of whatever from Honeyville.com. They are obviously trying to promote and get product moving. So they are biting the shipping there a little bit. And when you start getting up into larger volumes, that is a significant savings. That was our hampering. Like I said, I have got a company on the east side of the country. We could probably, if we made a deal, do $40 or $30 a pallet bin for equipment. Now it would be a mix. It would be whatever just happened to be in there. But what kills us is trying to get it across the country. which drives it right back up to real, not a bad price by comparison, but again there are sources west of the Rockies where I can do the same thing. So I shifted focus purely because of shipping. Now I could get a better selection and volume from the eastern component, but the problem would be getting it there. That's the issue. Again, where we're looking at all the way across the country and on the other side of the Rockies, there's a major money formula there. So when you see these shipping deals like this, or wherever we can compress or make arrangements like this, taking advantage of the purchase price and get the shipping dealt with, guys, that's the best of two worlds. That's what we need to really be focused on trying to do. BK, we've got just a minute or two here. Before we're gone, anything else, please jump in there. By my clock we are three minutes over. Oh no! Yes we are. Oh yeah, ooh I gotta get closer to the clock. Oh yeah, yep 903. The music is here guys, the weekend is too. We've got people in all the facilities. We're overcrowded at Camp Nagahicham. I was just told about that during the break. I got a message on that. So hey, we're going to be using the external areas, the far camp areas, over towards the ranges. The traffic control personnel, the MPs will tell you where to go and where to park. Make sure you follow instructions because we're overcrowded. Nagahicham's got a big range date today. using the 1600 yard moving targets. God bless the Republic. Death is the new world for us. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. We are on large folks, day and night. Who, Ra? Well, quartermaster Friday is over for us, but not for all of you, so take advantage of what we found for you. Thank you, BK. You're welcome. 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