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 08-01-2011, 11:29 AM | #1 | Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Indianapolis, Indiana Posts: 382 Liked 1 Times on 1 Posts
|  Doomsday Preppers on NatGeo
National Geographic Channel had a show on called Doomsday Preppers. Showed 4 different preppers and graded them on their preps. It was a fair presentation, didn't make them look like total kooks! My only problem with it was that it identified the folks by name and city, not a good thing. Then there was Dilbert the prepper in the Sunday paper. Looks like prepping is going mainstream. __________________
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| 08-01-2011, 12:39 PM | #2 | Dead Wolves = Good Wolves Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Rochester WI, Rochester WI Posts: 8,314 Liked 4 Times on 4 Posts
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Unfortunately its becoming a reality with a congress and president racing to level destruction through spending its prolly gonna beat the dec 21 2012 deadline. __________________
"Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound." — L. Neil Smith
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A Liberal lives life fearing the evil a man might do. A Conservative lives life celebrating the good a man does. -JonM | 
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| 08-02-2011, 01:54 AM | #3 | Supporting Member Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: , NC Posts: 420 |
Interesting show. I, too was really surprised that they allowed their names and homes to be showed...especially the woman who had food trucked in at night so the neighbors wouldn't notice that the 'Bedfords' stored food, then showed her home and on national television. Do you think that maybe the show uses false names, etc. to protect people? I just find it very hard to believe that she would go to that much trouble to blend in and then show her name and neighborhood on tv. | |
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| 08-02-2011, 10:07 AM | #4 | Supporting Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Ozark, AR Posts: 51 |
I wonder how much money the 4th guy had tied up in his setup. Looked fairly interesting. | |
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| 08-02-2011, 03:59 PM | #5 | Moderator Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Rochester, NY Posts: 5,562 Likes Given: 4
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It's kinda weird that anyone is a "doomsday" prepper. Having a store of food, water and other stuff for any problem, big or small, is smart. You don't end up spending any more money doing this and if you have a veggie garden you end up saving money.
I admit to starting my prepping as a reaction to current events, but since getting into it I wouldn't change anything if magically tomorrow current events did an about-face. __________________
When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them but protect them against you...you may know that your society is doomed. ~Ayn Rand | |
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| 08-02-2011, 05:11 PM | #6 | Sic Semper Tyrannis Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: , The Mother Lode Posts: 18,437 |
I got started because of the "Millenium" scare and just kept right on going. Looking back, I'm amazed at how unprepared and naive I was. __________________
Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) - a system of government where those least capable of leadership are elected by those least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to succeed or provide for themselves are rewarded with goods and services paid for by wealth confiscated from a diminishing number of people who actually work and produce.
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| 08-02-2011, 08:55 PM | #7 | Senior Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: , FL Posts: 645 |
Is this a series or a 1-time special? I looked to see when it is re-airing and couldn't find anything through the 16th.  __________________ "Ideology deludes, inspires dishonesty, and breeds fanaticism. Facts, experience, and logic are much better at leading you to the truth."
"Despite the conviction and seeming depth of knowledge with which ideologues speak, they are intellectual weaklings--joiners--who defer to systems of belief and charismatic gurus for their ideas." -- Daniel J. Flynn
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