Defend Thyself

It’s that time of year again, time to reflect on things. Time to reflect on life, family, friends, and memories. So much has happened, and we are grateful for another day to enjoy them. Life can’t always be easy, and even though you have set-backs and obstacles, look at them as hurdles to overcome, not road blocks to stop your progress.

I just hit the big 50, and would rather do it on my own, than ask for a hand-out from Uncle Sugar. It’s been almost 3 years since I started my two online businesses, Defend Thyself and EyeSpyPro, when my $150,000 a year job started to show signs of not being able to sustain that.

I was right, last March I went full time with these two online businesses and have not looked back. However, I could not have done it without you, our customers. Some of you are not customers yet, however, we wanted to send this message to you also.

So I wanted to take a moment before we shut down for the Holidays and say “Thank You.” Thank you for all your support, kind words, and encouragement. It’s not easy, though nothing good ever is, eh? The only thing constant is change. If you don’t adapt, you die.

So no matter if you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Festivus, or whatever, have a great time with your loved ones this season. We will be closed tomorrow, Thursday the 24th and Christmas day. Back in the office on Monday, my wife Mindy & I are driving to Phoenix to meet up with my family.

Merry Christmas!

Chris Winkler
Owner
Defend Thyself and
EyeSpyPro

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Merry Christmas! Gack, I sorta look like the Grinch that stole Christmas!

Wendell the Chameleon
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Happy Holidays! Love Pinky…

Pinky Sparkadero

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Stay safe this Holiday! Merry Christmas from Sparky…

Sparky the Stun Gun

I love my wife, Minh Le. We met online after I was bitten by the Asian bug when I had to travel to Thailand on business. She’s from Viet Nam, and one of the sweetest girl in the world. While her English is really good, however, some words she has dyslexia, and pronounces or spells them wrong. In Viet Nam, they structure their sentences different.

I made some seared scallops the other night and she called them kalops, and even sent a text message that I should eat them for lunch.

Then I get a text message she is leaving her work, and to “Please star babecure.” Yes, I’ll star the babecure…

And finally, we hit Knotts Berry Farm, and who do we get a picture with? Noospy!

Heres a pic of Mindy & I with Noospy.

You gotta love it…

Chris Winkler
Defendthyself.com

After upgrading our cart to the latest version, we had errors and could not take orders for our Self Defense, Personal Safety, and Home Protection store, and the site had a different look.

We are happy to report that all is well, we are back online, and we moved over to Comodo for our secure transactions. We just posted the Comodo certified logo to know we have safe & secure online transactions.

And check out DefendThyself on Twitter for special offers only to our Twitter friends.

Thanks for bearing with us!

Sparky the Stun Gun
Self Defense Products Expert
>DefendThyself.com/SelfDefense

We reported last year that you can include fireworks as another leading economic indicator. From my old days as a licensed securities dealer, we had to study these things and what it means is that there are things statistics that show how an economy is doing as of today.

There are three types of economic indicators, leading, lagging, and coincident

Leading indicators are things like hours worked, new unemployment, new manufacture orders for consumer goods, stock indexes, the spread on long & short interest rates, and consumer expectations.

I lump fireworks in that category, and here is why. I had a great job about 3 years ago, and I was making low 6 figures. Life was good and we though it would never end. I dropped a couple hundred bucks on fireworks and it was no problem. You could also hear the neighbors lighting off fireworks for at least 30 days before the 4th.

2 years ago, that job started slowing down, and we started Defend Thyself and our sister store, EyeSpyPro, a Spy & Surveillance gear shop, and both have steadily grown. I think I might have spent about $100 bucks on fireworks, still a good chunk of cash. Still a lot of activity before the 4th from the neighbors.

Last year, that great job was dying, and I did not spend any money. I spent more and more time growing both businesses, knowing I would be doing this full time shortly. There were only a couple pops before the 4th.

Earlier this year, the day job was dead, and I transitioned to full time, and I have not looked back. Though this year, I only heard a couple pops before the 4th, and as of 2pm today, I have heard very few pops. I bet the fireworks people are not too happy about that.

Though the jobless rate of 10% means 90% are still working, and I am sure tomorrow there will be a lot of fireworks going off.

With that in mind, be safe this year & follow these 4th of July Safety Tips:

1. Go watch a professional fireworks display, instead of lighting fireworks at home.
2. Be careful with sparklers; while they look innocent, and we all played with them, they burn @ 1,800 degrees, enough to melt gold. Supervise your kid when they play with them & tell them never to touch the end.
3. Keep the kids away from the booze while all the activity is going on. You don’t need a drunk child wandering into the road.
4. Have a first aid kit ready, just in case.
5. Have an instant read thermometer near the food, because if it’s not cooked enough, someone can get sick.
6. Watch the kids, a child can drown in an inch of water…
7. Install secure, anti-entanglement drain covers in your pool so hair and other objects don’t get sucked in.
8. Keep kids and pets away from the grill & any fires.
9. Use lots of sun screen, as it’s easy to get burnt like a rock lobster.

That’s enough for now, go enjoy the celebration of our Independence, which we really need to renew, especially in these Socialistic times.

Defend Thyself

Sparky the Stun Gun
DefendThyself.com

We wish everyone a very safe & happy 4th of July and look forward to seeing you next week.

Chris Winkler
DefendThyself.com

One thing I am passionate about is my Government, or at least what I believe my Government should be at all levels. Well, when California put in place the largest tax hikes in the history of the country, I went back to being a Libertarian.

I stupidly though the people of this country wanted the kind of sanity Ron Paul brought to the table, so I gave up my Libertarian registration, and changed to Republican. Well, I and I am sure a few other people accepted this fact, and held our nose & voted for the piece of crud that stuck to the wall after all the others fell off; McCain.

What other choice did I have; Barr??? Give me a break; NO. So anyway, I changed voter registration back to Libertarian, and now we have to vote on some propositions.

They all stink, and are just more of the same, old same old. The people in Sacramento just don’t get it. We are tired of all this, so with that in mind, we have to vote NO on all the propositions, every one.

As soon as I received my mail-in ballot, I had it right back out.

NO, NO NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO NO, NO, NO, NO, NO, NO
Sung to the tune of Nobody But Me, by The Human Beinz. Here is a bad video of the song on lastfm.com, recorded on an old b/w t.v., with lyrics.

Don’t tax us any worse than what we are already taxed.

VOTE NO TO EVERYTHING!

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Sparky the Stun Gun

Pfizer Inc announced today that if you have been taking any of 70 of their best drugs, you could be eligible to receive them for free!

However, you have had to loose your job since January, and have been on them for at least 3 months.

Drat, no free pills for me, since I am not currently taking any, though maybe for you…

FYI…

Sparky the Stun Gun

In another sign of the changing times we live in, I read something a while back about people eating raccoon meat. This blog post has sat for a couple months until I got around to writing it, and now I see I did not save the link about it. Well that’s ok because I got plenty of new fodder.

I was driving to the post office to mail out the Upgraded Spy Pen Digital Video Recorder that our sister store EyeSpyPro.com sells by the ton, when I saw a woman standing near a stack of tires by their driveway with a 4-Sale sign on them. I had a huge laugh because out here it’s very common for people to slap on these wide, thin tires with deep dish rims. They look really ridiculous on huge SUV’s, or older vehicles, where the value of the tires & rims exceeds the value of the vehicle they are carrying.

So now the people who need some extra cash are selling their fancy smanshy tires, and I wonder who’s going to buy them? Then I see again someone pushing “coon” meat as a form of substance. The other dark meat I believe it can be called?

You won’t believe this, there’s this urban hunter that’s selling his fresh coom carcasses to the public. He’s also an old blues player who loves his drumsticks. You’re gonna die when you see the video clip.

To urban hunter, next meal is scampering by
Detroit retiree, 69, supplements his income by living off the land

Detroit – When selecting the best raccoon carcass for the special holiday roast, both the connoisseur and the curious should remember this simple guideline: Look for the paw.

“The paw is old school,” says Glemie Dean Beasley, a Detroit raccoon hunter and meat salesman. “It lets the customers know it’s not a cat or dog.”

Beasley, a 69-year-old retired truck driver who modestly refers to himself as the Coon Man, supplements his Social Security check with the sale of raccoon carcasses that go for as much $12 and can serve up to four. The pelts, too, are good for coats and hats and fetch up to $10 a hide.

I lost it when the guy interviewing him held up the skinned coon with the head still attached for the camera. It did sorta look like chicken. I had to rush back to finish this post, then I’ll go back and see the rest of the movie. It is incredible.

So there you have it, your next meal, BBQ Raccoon. They are cheap, and who knows what else is out there that you can eat to save a few bucks. While you are out there, though, you might run into some bears or wolverines.

Mace Bear Pepper Spray

Make sure you bring along some Mace Bear Pepper spray on your next hunting trip. It’s 9 big ounces, comes with a free holster so it’s always at your side, and it can spray up to 35 feet! It puts out a big cloud of fire, just like in hell. As soon as the bear gets a whiff of that wonderful Mace Pepper Spray, he will high tail it back home.

Then you can go and gather up your coons…

Sparky the Stun Gun
Self Defense Products Expert
DefendThyself.com/MaceBearPepperSpray

We started carrying the Sabre Red Pepper Sprays, and shortly we will have all their products. The reason we started carrying them is we found out that Charles Nix did a study on 20 pepper sprays and the hottest was Sabre Red.

Sabre Red is one of many formulas from Security Equipment Corporation, a 33 year old company that says they have “Been making grown men cry since 1975!” When you look at the company, there are many reasons to switch to Sabre Red.

First, they are ISO 9001:2000, which is a high honor for any company. It is a globally accepted quality management system and the certification means the company strives to constantly improve the product consistency, quality and, overall organizational performance and profitability.

They have a High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) laboratory that ensures each batch of Sabre Red pepper spray is exactly the same as the next. Chromtec, an independent testing laboratory and clearinghouse, has stated, “We’re very impressed with Security Equipment Corporation’s testing facility and commitment to HPLC technology. Their state-of-the-art laboratory increases the reliability and effectiveness of SABRE products.” SEC is the only defense spray manufacturer that has an in-house HPLC laboratory.

That’s pretty powerful. Now lets see why it’s the hottest pepper spray; if you look at that pepper spray heat chart again, it shows that Sabre has the highest concentration of capsaicinoids of any pepper spray on the market.

Another reason we like it is because it will spray for 25 one second shots, 4 or 5x a normal pepper spray, even though it is the same size as the competition. Those extra shots will come in handy if you have a crazed punk, or multiple punks intent on ruining your day.

And Sabre products spray upside down, another benefit, as most others won’t.

Oh, did we mention it went though extensive tests by the Arizona Department of Public Safety and the Phoenix Police tested 4 sprays for one year, and they chose Sabre Red because it was a water based, non-toxic, easy to decontaminate their people, lasted longer than competitors, and was the hottest they tested.

Now dozens & dozens of Law Enforcement departments choose Sabre Red Pepper Spray and you should too.

Next blog post, we will show you the Spitfire Pepper Spray, which is suppose to be the 2nd most hottest pepper spray on the market, and has several specific advantages over the Sabre and all other key chain pepper sprays.

If you don’t have a pepper spray on your keychain to defend you from all the new criminals that are hitting the street since they lost their regular job, you might want to pick up a Sabre Red Pepper Spray. If you enter discount code: YDPK7F2337 when you check out, you can take 10% off your next order by visiting our online store.

Remember, spray first, ask questions later…

Sparky the Stun Gun
Self Defense Products Expert
DefendThyself.com/SabreRedPepperSpray

This Halloween, make sure when you hit the streets that you have your tools to keep yourself safe from pranks; Pepper Sprays, Stun Guns, TASER C2.

Your treat? Take 10% off your order until Halloween by entering the discount code: “Boo” when you check out.

Defend Thyself!

Sparky the Stun Gun
Self Defense Products Expert
DefendThyself.com