Greek Style Beef Stew

November 27, 2010 - "Greek Style Beef Stew" By Joseph Parish. Back in my military days I did a lot of traveling. One day I might be in Rome, another day heading towards Beirut or in a few fortunate times a lay over in beautiful Greece. For some strange and unusual reason every time our plane would transcend Greek airspace it developed a mechanical problem and forced us to land at Venizelos Airport for repairs, gee such a life. Click here

Ahhh The Taste of Mock Apple Pie

November 27, 2010 - "Ahhh The Taste of Mock Apple Pie" By Joseph Parish. Being the experimental type person which I am, I decided that this past thanksgiving I would do something different. On turkey day I created an apple pie that wasn’t apple at all. That’s right my apple pie contained no apples what-so-ever. To provide a fair playing field for the pie, I prepared my mock apple pie while my wife baked the real thing. Click here

What Secrets Lurk in the Yamantau Mountains

November 26, 2010 - "What Secrets Lurk in the Yamantau Mountains?" By Joseph Parish. If you think the massive complex featured in the movie 2012 was straight out of some writer’s imagination, think again. Years after the cold war has ended and nations around the globe are drafting plans to minimize their nuclear stockpile we realize that Russia’s top secret Yamantau Mountain project is still in full swing. With that thought in mind it appears that Russia is still preparing to launch a nuclear first strike against America if necessary. Click here

The Warrior Song

November 26, 2010 - "The Warrior Song" When singer, songwriter, producer Sean Householder saw several articles and news stories back to back on how morale is low within today's military, he found it discouraging. Although never in the Armed Forces himself, he recalls how his Grandfather and others spoke about their time in the service and how it was their honor to serve and to fight for what we all take for granted - Freedom. Here is his song and I dedicate this one to our military serving both in foreign lands and those here6at home. Click here

Do it for our Forefathers

November 25, 2010 - "Do it for our Forefathers" By Joseph Parish. Where are the values hiding such as our forefathers displayed in 1776? These were men who would stand up for their country and what it stood for. They took a stand whether it was against a foreign aggressor or a homegrown persecutor. The little man’s dignity and value were deemed worthy of our plight and concern. Nowadays it’s almost as if our people don’t care or they have lost that American backbone from past years. Click here

Grope a dee doo dah Grope a dee ay

November 25, 2010 - "Grope a dee doo dah Grope a dee ay" By Joseph Parish. My, oh my, what a wonderful day! At least that’s the way the song goes however reality approaches our senses in a slightly different fashion. We see it on the evening news reports every night; we view the issues on every current website we visit. I am talking about the ongoing TSA personnel aggression and their over zealous groping tactics. Click here

A Case of Wrong Identify

November 24, 2010 - "A Case of Wrong Identify" By Joseph Parish. I recently concluded a course of study on the basic security procedures necessary for our shipping port of entries. During the continuance of this 8 hour course it was stated over and over about the value of checking for proper identification. This is all well and good if we did not have the modern technology which we possess today. Click here

Donner party publications addition

November 24, 2010 - I made a section in the library files specifically for the Donner party publications. In addition new files have been placed in the "Clothing" directory. Click here

Repaired the Jamestown Library Files

November 24, 2010 - Repaired the Jamestown Library Files. Please folks if you find something that is messed up on the site please let me know so that I can fix it. Click here

Mississippi Warrior

November 23, 2010 - "Mississippi Warrior" By Joseph Parish. Here's another of those short fictions that I had a craving to create tonight. Might as well enjoy a little light reading for a change, Hope you enjoy it. Click here

Beyond Borders

November 23, 2010 - "Beyond Borders" By Joseph Parish. Okay folks I got bored and did a little creative writing here so hope you enjoy it. This fictional tale is about a boy and his cat named C-Dee. Click here

Debt and the Survivalist

November 23, 2010 - "Debt and the Survivalist" By Joseph Parish. As the story goes, there once was a survivalist named Mel Tappan who wrote books on setting up the ideal retreat. His advice to the novice was to obtain some high ground in one of the western states and construct your self a log cabin complete with an underground bunker, have a usable barn to compliment your pasture land and locate all this near a free running stream. Click here

Inverter or UPS

November 22, 2010 - "Inverter or UPS" By Joseph Parish. Last evening I had a discussion with a like minded individual who felt that he could readily use inverters and UPS units interchangeably. Although the two types of power units may share some similar characteristics they are actual two different “animal”. Click here

The Joy of Flavored Butters

November 22, 2010 - "The Joy of Flavored Butters" By Joseph Parish. We are a family that bakes the majority of our own bread ranging from the usual sandwich style to the more elaborate flavored breads. I find nothing better then to sit down and munch away on some fresh garlic or herbal flavored bread however generally it is made in quantities of two loafs. The problem with this stems from the fact that if another member of the family does not particularly like that flavor there is usually wasted bread. To remedy that problem we often use flavored butters and spread it on regular pieces of our homemade bread. Click here

Surviving the Emperors New Clothing

November 22, 2010 - "Surviving the Emperors New Clothing" By Joseph Parish. We’ve all heard the tale of the emperor’s new clothes and as a survivalist I often wonder how long after the balloon goes up would it be until we start wearing similar clothing? Few people take into consideration the need to replace our attire in a post crisis America. Click here

Survivalist First Aid Checklist

November 22, 2010 - "Survivalist First Aid Checklist" By Joseph Parish. One can search the internet all day long and continually come up with another first aid checklist. Usually they all seem to contain similar items. Granted the products listed are critical in the event of a crisis but often the notations can provide a new insight into what otherwise appears as redundant. Hopefully, I have a least included some hints in my list that may have been missing from the others. If that’s the case then I feel I have accomplished my goal. Click here

There’s something about Hot Dogs

November 21, 2010 - "There’s something about Hot Dogs" By Joseph Parish. One of my favorite foods is the common hot dog. I view the frankfurter to be a better tasting food then the ever popular hamburger. When you take a good quality dog and add some brown mustard onto the roll it becomes paradise unlimited. Have you ever stopped to wonder where this strange food originated from? It certainly appears to be an all American traditional food as we readily find it at our baseball games around the country. Let’s face it a baseball game is not complete without a couple of good tasting dogs. Click here

Veterans Burial Benefits

November 21, 2010 - "Veterans Burial Benefits" By Joseph Parish. The vast majority of survivalists are veterans whether it be the current Iraqi wars or as in my case the Vietnam era conflict. As a veteran these brave men and women are afforded certain burial rights for the completion of their service to our country. The rights include the burial within a national cemetery as well as other benefits for the deceased veteran’s family. I would like to briefly review a few of these benefits as they relate to the death of the service member. Click here

Great for more than Lemon-Aid

November 21, 2010 - "Great for more than Lemon-Aid" By Joseph Parish. As survivalist we continually search for items which can “multitask” so to speak. We want supplies which can generally perform more with then a single work assignment. This saves us valuable space when planning our retreat or home emergency supplies. Here are a few of my favorite uses for lemons which perform well outside of their intended environment. Click here