I recently started posting here, and never really made an introduction, and I am sure that I have yet to make anybody feel gratuitus, but I would like to say one thing about this forum and why I like it:

Even though we (for the most part) don't get into all the politics and emotional issues that lots of people are very passionate and vocal about, everybody respects everybody else. Other forums, especially survival or emergency preparedness related ones, are full of very vocal individuals that rather rudley make there position known on any given issue, and completley insult if not down right offend the individuals on the other side of the fence.

This very notion might be why it is so difficult for the vast majority of people who are into preparedness to be seen as reasonable, practicle and normal, because the 5% or so of the "crazy survivalists" (as the stereotypes lean to) give everybody else a bad rap.

Hope that made sense?

Oh well. I too would like to thank all those who make this a site that I check everyday. Wasn't it grandma that said "you learn something new everyday"? Guess this is one of the means to that end.