Ron Helwig

At the most recent Porc Fest, I had the pleasure of listening to a presentation by an extended family that is working very hard to become self-sufficient. They talked for over an hour on all the various aspects of such a life, but what I found most interesting was the mention of danger.

Yesterday Dalebert posted the second cartoon based on my suggestions. This one is part of his new series on the reasons why some people can't quite accept full anarchy.

In Ayn Rand's book "Atlas Shrugged", there is a place where the masters of production go to hide and wait out the eventual collapse of government and society. The collapse takes many years to get going but escalates in an exponential fashion.

We had our second Pink Pistols shoot here yesterday. I think it went pretty well. I was scrambling all about because of our 3 rangemasters, two were gone and the third was a little late. It was fairly hot and humid, but the rain held off until evening. We also had two video crews here shooting footage.

June 2008 Pink Pistols crowd

The First Church of the Gun is doing well. We've had many parishioners over the last few weeks. The video shows one of the newest, a visitor from a far away land, partaking in the sacrament of the flintlock.

Thanks go to Anthony for bringing his holy device. Thanks also to Jeremy for his help in preparing the sermon. Finally, thanks to Kate for providing the repast.

An excerpt from the scriptures

In the beginning was the 1911, and the 1911 was the pistol, and it was good. And behold the Lord said, thou shalt not muck with my disciple John's design for it is good and it worketh. For John made the 1911, and lo all of his weapons, from the designs which I, the Lord, gave him upon the mountain.

Sects

The First Church of the Gun has two major sects: Browningites and Panhoplophiles.

Browningites

There is no God but God and John Moses Browning is his prophet.

Here is an excerpt of the scriptures.

Back when I was in the army, I could have gone "hard-core" and been a gung-ho soldier. Thankfully a friend of mine had introduced me to Arlo Guthrie in high school. I spent a lot of time listening to Arlo's music, which I contend saved me from a life of soldiering. I considered Arlo my personal saviour.

OK, I'm on break.

After Otis broke his pelvis chasing the plow guy, we got a week long visit by 10 young Ron Paul supporters. These guys were great, and joined dozens more coming in from all over the country to campaign for Ron Paul. I hope most of them join the Free State Project and move up here soon.

Today got off to a good start with some woodsplitting. The weather was excellent for winter outdoor work. Then I took off to Manchester for the LPNH board meeting. That was mercifully short and business-like.

Then I went over to Murphy's Taproom and had an excellent dish of Portabello Parmesan Pasta while getting some good work done on the laptop. Rich Tomasso and I talked a bit about silver, and I got to show him the new sites ShireSilver.com and ShireSilver.org.

Then a group of us got together and held signs at the Obama/Oprah event at the Verizon Wireless Center. There was a good sized group of people who were out standing in the cold trying to combat global warming (idiots!) and some Kookchinich supporters. I got interviewed 5 times by media, including the short scene in the video.