The 12 Best States to Live Off The Grid [VIDEO INFOGRAPHIC]

Once you decide to definitively go off the grid, the next step is to figure out where you plan to go. While most places could be made suitable for survival, there is no getting around that some are better than others. Of course, what makes one state better than another might differ greatly whether it is natural resources, zoning laws, or even a cultural component. That is why we figured out what qualities are important to preppers and what distribution the states have between them. In this article, we will break down the 12 best states to live off the grid as well as a list of the factors to consider.

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If the VA. AG Can’t Take Governorship, Guess Who Takes Over: The GOP’s Speaker of the Va. House

Via Billy

The hits just keep on coming for Virginia Democrats, so much so that the top tier of the state’s leadership appears on the verge of having to resign in disgrace, handing control of the state over to Republicans.

First, Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam shocked the nation with disgustingly calloused remarks about post-birth abortions, only to be followed days later by the revelation of a racist photograph on his medical yearbook page, which featured him either dressed in blackface or a KKK hood. Northam has denied being in that particular photo, but has admitted to dressing in blackface as pop singer Michael Jackson on a separate

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Robert Mueller Is A Coward And A Liar

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That statement is going to make me real popular, right? Any criticism of Robert Mueller for many people equals support for President Trump. But it doesn’t, and Mueller really is a coward and a liar, and it’s not hard to make that case, it’s even easier than how he makes his cases, because we can actually prove ours. We also don’t have to pervert the law, but he does.

Robert Mueller is a coward because he again, in his indictment of Roger Stone last week, makes claims against people who can’t defend themselves, and who moreover have in at least one case, that of Julian Assange, previously and repeatedly denied those claims. And Robert Mueller’s a liar because many of his claims are evidently not true; but though he will never be able to prove them, and he knows it, he still makes his ‘case’ based on them.

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Washington Post Deliberately Buried Its Own Elizabeth Warren Bombshell

The far-left Washington Post did its best to deliberately bury its own bombshell report damaging to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).

For years, Warren’s denied she ever used her phony claim of American Indian ancestry as a means to advance her academic or legal career. But on Monday, the Post published a copy of Warren’s Texas Bar registration card from April of 1986, and on it, she clearly (and falsely) identifies herself as an “American Indian.”

Warren has been batting down criticism about her Native claim ever since her arrival on the national scene about a decade ago, and now those chickens are coming home to roost.

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3rd in line: Virginia AG Mark Herring Admits Wearing Blackface in College

 

“That conduct clearly shows that, as a young man, I had a callous and inexcusable lack of awareness and insensitivity to the pain my behavior could inflict on others. It was really a minimization of both people of color, and a minimization of a horrific history I knew well even then.” (Sounds like a Commie confessing.)

Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring (D) revealed to black lawmakers in an emergency meeting Wednesday morning that he wore blackface at a college party in 1980.

Herring issued a statement saying he wore brown makeup and a wig in 1980 to look like a black rapper during a party as a 19 -year-old undergraduate at the University of Virginia.

The revelation further roils the top levels of Virginia government. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) and Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D) are already facing controversies, and Herring would be next in line to be governor after those two men.

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It's Time for Ingrates to Go

Via Cousin John

Crying "hate" is a lazy way to debate. But in the Beltway, where honest discussion and vigorous deliberation are desperately needed, the rhetorical sloth is so thick you need a Big Foot circular saw to cut it.

Take Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, who thrust a Liberian immigrant, Linda Clark, into the limelight as her State of the Union special guest and poster child. "She has lived here over 18 years," Rep. Omar lamented, "and there's no reason she should be taken from her family." Ahead of the annual address to Congress on Tuesday, Rep. Omar blasted President Donald Trump for "threatening to deport" Clark and "thousands of Liberians for no reason other than hate."

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The Franklin Armory Providence: Non Semi-Automatic ‘Digital’ Action – SHOT Show 2019

NEAT!

Franklin Armory is one of my favorite companies, not because of the products they make (although they are awesome), but because they continue to push legal boundaries in order to preserve the 2A. That said, Franklin Armory’s Providence is a new product that not only benefits those in the good ole US of A but our friends across the pond as well.

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Haven't changed a bit.....:)

I believe I'm reading the S&S as the format would not have been The Saigon Post or the other English language newspaper. 

Vientiane, Laos 1969

^I bought a Patek Philippe watch, ($18K today) and had the band replaced with an 18 carat gold intricately woven one, ($?) which was actually a ladies bracelet. I also bought a dinner ring in 18 carat gold with a very nice colored Jade. ($?) As I remember, I paid $200 or $300 for all. Unfortunately stolen, during a move in the states.

When *'Corner Car' Larry showed me the picture, he said you look young in this and I said, well  I'll just  have all pictures taken with my face hidden....:)

*Larry "Corner Car' Bach.  My Citroen  had an electrical problem which was never found, for at times the motor would cut off when you turned a corner, hence the name. :)

The Founding Fathers of the Public (government) School System in America

Alex Newman has written an excellent article in the February 4th issue of The New American magazine entitled From Educational Excellence To Mediocrity in which he brings up several issues I have also dealt with in the past.

He noted that the Puritans in Massachusetts were “outliers in America” in the area of having the government start to enact governmental education laws. For all the good things the Puritans may have done, in this one critical area, the promotion of governmental education laws was a horrible mistake. In fact, labeling it as a grievous error would not be an exaggeration.

Mr. Newman has written: “The first giant step away from traditional, classical, Christian education toward socialistic and humanistic indoctrination and the dumbing down of American education began under Horace Mann. In 1837, again in Massachusetts, Mann was appointed as the first-ever ‘Education Secretary’ of an American state. And as a Unitarian who rejected the Bible as the inspired and inerrant Word of God,  Mann had big ideas about reforming the highly successful educational system that existed at the time. His efforts would ultimately lead to the fundamental transformation of education in America, putting it on course to end up where it is today.”

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