Patriot Express News Letter Edition #16
Fellow Patriots,
Good morning and a happy Saturday to you. Ms. Lucy and I wish you the best of weekends and a great start to your new week. We hope you are healthy and blessed wherever you may be. The world continues to spin in crazy directions with many events popping up all over the globe. What comes next? We are thankful for many things in our life, to include each of you who takes time out of your busy day and week to read the newsletter and website. Even though the weekly news changes, our focus and preparedness efforts should remain the same. Constant. We learn, prepare, communicate and share. Keep charging.
With that said... Let's get moving...
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Just a few notes to pass along to everyone.
Please continue your efforts to pick up new readers and pass along their email addresses my way. I will get them connected.
Thanks for your emails and information shared to me. Festus and I try to keep track of as much as possible but the more eyes and ears we have on the ground scanning for news and events, the better chance we have of not missing anything. You are the LP/OP's or as Ms. Lucy calls them OB/LPs. That being the early warning to what is coming. If you haven't figured it out yet, most topics of importance appear in alternative news weeks before the main stream picks them up, in most cases. We just have to dust off some of the fear porn and focus on the topic.
I want to send a big Patriot welcome out to four new Patriot readers who joined the Patriot Express this week. A big Patriot welcome goes out to Huntsville, AL, North GA, and the mountains of Western NC. You know who you are. Welcome aboard.
Okay, enough of that... Let's move ahead...
(The author and blog site are not responsible for your chuckles and laughs out loud while reading "Thoughts for the Week." Read at your own risk and remember, avoid fear porn and keep one foot grounded. Take what you want and leave the rest behind.) When life struggles seem to weigh you down and you feel you can't carry the load, look up.
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We had another blessed week here at our Huntsville, AL residence. We decided at the last minute to head home to the hills of East TN for a weekend visit. We always enjoy the quietness and beauty of the lake and woodlands around and near us. There is no place like home.
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We encountered a medical issue in our household so things went beyond a duct tape fix. Per instructions, we went to a regional emergency room around 11 pm in a medium sized Southern City. Wow, what an awakening that was for us. Talk about the zombie apocalypse live and in close proximity. Drug addicts, car wrecks, attempted suicides, injuries and aliens. The staff and workers all treated us with courtesy and respect. It was the mismanaged time and process that was noticeable. In the section of the ER we were sent, there was no less than 12 to 15 cot/stretchers lining the hallway walls. One gent had been on his hallway bed for 12 hours and he told an intern doctor he was the first person to check on him. No food, no water, and no care. The patient didn't even know why he was there. Another gent had a truck fall on him and crush his chest. He had internal bleeding and over 15 crushed bones. He was on a stretcher for five hours before being sent to surgery. Shall I continue? My point in sharing this is...imagine how it would be in the first 96 hours of a collapse. Even worse, imagine what it will be like when first responders and hospital staff walks off the job to be home with their families. Gosh help anyone who ends up in this situation. Yikes.
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We did get to visit with a local Patriot family while at home. It is always good to spend time with like-minded people. One of the best ways to learn and bond is to communicate and share philosophies on preparedness topics. Everything from preferred arming for specific type events to communications. Mrs. Patriot of the house was watching the video I posted last week about IPhones and the lack of security and privacy. It was nice to see a recipient of the website information using what was posted. Do you have local Patriots you can share time with? Why does time go so fast when you spend time with like-minded Patriots? If you figure it out let me know.
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We also got to spend a few minutes with another Patriot family at our TN church. It had been a few weeks since our paths crossed. It is amazing how much information a couple Patriots can share in a short period of time. With folks reading and keeping up with world events it is easy to miss something. But, when you communicate and share information you pick up something that you may have missed in your research. It is time consuming and easy to end up chasing rabbits to get to the bottom of a topic. Of the folks I talk to often on Preparedness, each has their own favorite sites. So once you talk with four or five folks you cover a vast spectrum of information. It also helps you determine if a topic is grounded with one news site or being picked up by multiple sites. It also helps weed out fear porn through the process.
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One of the things we do in our home for preparedness is can meat. When we can buy the meat to meet our request for grass fed, no shots or hormones, we buy and can without freezing, when
possible. If we lose power for an extended period, the meat is a great asset to our menu and diet. We have been canning ground beef this evening. Its like a drive through deposit to the future.
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I had a young Patriot reach out to me for a text conversation last evening and it was great. I don't know about you, but having mature conversations with our younger generation gives me hope that we do have some Patriots to fill our shoes as we age. This young Patriot is in our group and attended my classes at HLS 2018 and 2019. Matter of fact he has attended HLS seven straight years. It was great to hear him talk about responsibility and being in charge of his household for setting up preparedness plans. He was telling me how recently his home endured a water outage. His significant other wasn't sure what they would do for water until he smiled and revealed his stored water supply through his preparedness measures would more than cover their needs. This goes back to discussions we shared at HLS classes. Preparedness is not just for the doom and gloom of the big one setting us back 100 years. It is day to day preparedness to make you self-reliant. Life goes on. You don't miss a beat because you are prepared. Keep charging young Patriot.
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One our Patriot brothers from north GA submitted this excellent interview with financial investor Doug Casey. Interesting stuff. https://youtu.be/Bu1r5njd8O8
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We are looking forward to heading back to East Tennessee this weekend to spend time with Festus. Oh lad needs to come off the mountain sometimes. Hopefully time will permit us to meet with a few other Patriots in the area.
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I was contacted by a fellow Patriot who humbled me beyond words. She was complimenting the Hope For Survival Book and the position I took in announcing my faith at the beginning of the book. I didn't know how she obtained a copy and I'm always curious. Her husband picked the book up from another reader who read it and then told my Patriot friends husband that he and my friend needed to read it. My friend's husband didn't realize I was the author until she told him. The important point here is not me, but the other gentleman had been struggling in his faith and then read my book and called and asked my friend's husband to come to him and pray with him. As I say in training classes and in the book, the most important part of preparedness is first addressing your spiritual, physical and psychological position in life. I pray we don't have to face anything along the lines of a collapse or any other event, but I can tell you this, if we do and it's anything like I have witnessed in other countries, the three items I just mentioned will come in to play for you. I'm sharing this with you as a Patriot friend and someone who has been on the other side and I'm simply sounding the horn to future possibilities.
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