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• Episode 151, Living With Chickens on Liberty Ridge

  

  We took delivery of a small flock of chicks in February 2013 and have been living with them ever since here on Liberty Ridge.Now's as good a time as ever to tal... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2014 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 150, Time to Vote Again?

  

  Well, it's midterm election time again. Oh, the pagentry, the drama. Democracy in action. Exercise your franchise. Vote or die! (Insert raspberry sound... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2014 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 149, Raised Bed Gardening at Liberty Ridge

  

  The first summer/fall growing season is coming to an end at Liberty Ridge. Time to assess what we did, how things turned out, and what we would do differently. Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2014 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 148, Liberty and Self-Reliance

  

  Liberty and self-reliance--I call it LASR for short. The two go together. It's hard to imagine one without the other. Liberty is doing as you like, exercising... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2014 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 147, Listener Don Shrugs Out

  

  Long time listeners will remember Don, who is himself a long-time listener to the podcast. Way back in July 2010, Don and a business partner, Bob, were in the... Read more

  Posted on 31 August 2014 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 146, It's About Turning Texas Blue

  

  The dissolving of what's left of the country's southern border looks like a plan to turn Texas from a red state to a blue state. Read more

  Posted on 14 August 2014 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 145, Ol Remus Trifecta

  

  A venerable blogger of the Survivalist/Collapsist persuasion says it all in three recent posts worthy of your time, with my synopsis here:Flash PointWhere are... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2014 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 144, Rainwater Irrigation

  

  Water is so very important that you should have at least two sources of this vital commodity.One backup source, rainwater, could even be the primary source of... Read more

  Posted on 14 June 2014 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 143, Slaves to Democracy

  

  Elections are coming.(They're always coming.)Exercise your franchise.(Exercise in futility.)Let's get out the vote.(Why not, you get plenty out of it.)Don't... Read more

  Posted on 03 June 2014 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 142, A Tractor for the Homestead

  

  A good, used, inexpensive tractor is hard to find, but with some careful research and some good fortune, it appears we have. There is probably no more useful... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2014 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 141, Unified Field Theory of Collectivism

  

  A listener sent me this brilliant piece by John C Wright entitled Unified Field Theory of Madness.In it, Wright explains how, in a more complete way than... Read more

  Posted on 16 April 2014 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 140, We Get Chickens

  

  Check out the latest addition to the growing family homestead here at Liberty Ridge--chickens!Pictured are a few of our Cinnamon Queen chicks, delivered to us... Read more

  Posted on 13 March 2014 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 139, Global Warming is an Excuse for Tyranny

  

  Lots of talk lately about global warming, or as the collectivists prefer to call it--climate change.President Obama and the EPA appear to be gearing up on... Read more

  Posted on 19 February 2014 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 138, Beating a Winter Power Outage

  

  In a prior show I talked about the first winter storm at Liberty Ridge, the first test of our emergency preps. We got through that storm unfazed--everything... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2014 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 137, 1978 Versus Now

  

  In this episode, I cover some recent events:Chris Christie's staff-inspired traffic tie-ups on the GW Bridge, and what it says about governmentA report on... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2014 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 136, Liberty Ridge in Winter

  

  Winter came early this year to Liberty Ridge, in the form of a major early December storm.Pre-storm hype had this event rivaling the infamous ice storm of... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2013 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 135, Setting Up the Vegetable Garden

  

  Winter is here, so now is the time to get the vegetable garden beds set up in time for the first spring planting.We're building our grow beds using concrete... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2013 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 134, Federal Employee All-Hands Conference Call

  

  In a first for the Shrugging Out Podcast, we have obtained a recording of a recent "all hands" conference call for employees of the federal government. Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2013 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 133, Obamacare as a Technology Disaster

  

  I call it OTIS--Obamacare Technology Information System. As an IT project, OTIS is a failure.Large software projects often fail. Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2013 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Episode 132, From ObamaCare to Death Camps

  

  Ok, an extreme theme for this podcast.Obamacare is here. It's still somewhat theoretical given the startup failures of the insurance exchanges. Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2013 DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY