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Daily Briefing For Thursday, May 15. 2014

USDA SWATOur friends at the U.S. Department of Agriculture need some new equipment. According to the Federal Business Opportunities website:The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Inspector...

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Daily Briefing For Sunday, May 18, 2014

Homeland Security Goes to "Level Four" Readiness; Meanwhile, Is CME Something We Need To Be War Gaming?Those of us blessed to live in Texas still have things with which we must contend.  Last week, the...

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Daily Briefing For Monday, May 19, 2014

Stock Up, Tune In and Hang On.Jerid shared this article with me and a few others this evening to get our feedback.  Turns out Thailand is undergoing a quasi-coup of some sort at the moment.  We visited...

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Daily Briefing For Tuesday, May 20, 2014

"Climate Change Will Force Us To Abandon Coastal Cities.  We'd Better Start Preparing Right Now."I promise: I don't go out looking for gloom and doom articles.  They always seem to find me instead.The...

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Daily Briefing For Sunday, May 25, 2014

Coming CleanWe're not big Memorial Day travelers/party goers.  For the last few years, I've observed the holiday in the same fashion - cleaning gutters and doing yard work.  Today was no...

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Daily Briefing For Saturday, May 31, 2014

The Convenience of ConflictI'm going to say what no one else wants to say. Conflict is convenient.When we choose to adhere to a mainstream set of political beliefs, in many ways we free ourselves of...

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Daily Briefing For Sunday, June 1, 2014

First Impression Product Reviews - Sangean DT-400W and Grundig M400My wife complains I carry too much stuff with us when we travel.  (Today, she also complained that I am too detail oriented when I...

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Daily Briefing For Monday, June 2, 2014

Jordan's Annual Hurricane Preparedness MemorandumLifelong Miami resident and friend from my law school days at The U, Jordan is an attorney in the Miami area.  He's previously penned hurricane...

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Suburban Dad Survivalist Field Day Weekend 2014

Suburban Dad Survivalist Field Day Weekend 2014Date: Saturday, August 2, 2014Time: 8 AM to 6 PMLocation: KR Training, 1166 CR 145, Manheim, TX 78948Cost: $50    Many of you have expressed an interest...

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Daily Briefing For Friday, June 27, 2014

Lessons In Road RageI'd like to share my road rage experience with you.This morning, I was heading to lunch at the University of Texas Club, located in the UT stadium.  The stadium and club entrance...

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FREE Firearms Training at Upcoming Preparedness Field Day on August 2!

Yes, you read that correctly – FREE firearms training from KR Training’s Karl Rehn.  But before we get to that, let’s discuss what’s happening on August 2. We've seen a lot of headlines as of late that...

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Daily Briefing for Monday, September 8, 2014

What Jerry Jones Can Teach Us About PreparednessYes.  That Jerry Jones.ESPN recently drilled down deep into the mind of the owner of the iconic Dallas Cowboys, providing a superbly written piece and...

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Daily Briefing for Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Your Regular Reminder To BreatheYes, I'm not blogging much these days.  Writing a book takes up a lot of time.  But more on that later.The Dow closed down 273 points today.  One strategist suggested"We...

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Daily Briefing for Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Moving The Needle In Our SchoolsThis isn't about Common Core or whether we should ban standardized testing in schools.  If you want to yell about that, move over to Facebook.A couple of weekends ago, I...

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Daily Briefing for Thursday, October 9, 2014

"Maverick's In A Flat Spin, Headed Out To Sea."Remember that time that Tom Cruise and Anthony Edwards were competing with Val Kilmer and some other actor to see who was the coolest 80s fighter pilot?...

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Daily Briefing for Saturday, October 11, 2014

The Sophomore EffortIn the past few months, my blogging has become quite sparse.  Time I would have normally spent in front of a keyboard typing about preparedness has been replaced with time in front...

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Daily Briefing for Saturday, October 18, 2014

So How About Those Royals?I find baseball boring.  So let's talk about something else.First Glimpse Into 2015 SDS Preparedness ConferenceThe speaker's roster is coming along well.  So far, we...

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Daily Briefing for Friday, October 24, 2014

Precautionites or Precautionaries?I've started listening to Andrew Wilkow's radio show as of late, at the recommendation of Karl at KR Training.  Wilkow intersperses political opinion with regular...

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Daily Briefing for Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Report from PrepperFest in PhoenixI flew out to Phoenix on Sunday for a couple of work meetings on Monday.  I timed my meetings so as to give me an opportunity to attend PrepperFest in...

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2015 Suburban Dad Survivalist Preparedness Conference

2015 Suburban Dad Survivalist Preparedness ConferenceSaturday, January 1010:00 AM – 5:15 PMCabela’s, 15570 S Interstate 35 Frontage Rd, Buda, TX 78610The Third Annual SDS Preparedness Conference will...

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Daily Briefing for Saturday, November 1, 2014

Fall BackDST ends Sunday morning at 2 AM.  This means we will "fall back" and gain an hour.Fire preventionists suggest we change the batteries in our smoke alarms when changing to or from DST to ensure...

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Daily Briefing for Wednesday, June 10, 2015

First Thoughts On Texas Legislation On Open Carry and Campus CarryTexas now joins a long list of states - a whopping forty four states allow for the open carry of handguns in some form or another....

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Daily Briefing for Sunday, June 28, 2015

So What Are We Supposed To Do Now?(This morning, I led a discussion in my Sunday School class on the issue of what Christians need to be doing right now in the wake of a number of news stories around...

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Daily Briefing for Monday, June 29, 2015

Greece and Puerto RicoSo here were some of the headlines from Drudge this afternoon:GREEK CRISIS IGNITES AS BANKS SHUT UNTIL THURSDAY...Referendum looms; Many in country hoard groceries, gas...SHOCK......

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Daily Briefing For Wednesday, May 14, 2014

The Deep Drill DownThe dash board of my Blogger site indicates it's been a while since I've posted here.  Late last year, I began working on a series of essays on preparedness in an effort to really...

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