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Congress changed hands last night, and not by a small margin. Come January, the Democrats will be fully in charge. Michigan elected a socialist and Texas turned purple. That seems to be the over-arching result.
Louisiana elected Julia Letlow to replace Bill Cassidy. It was not a forgone conclusion as Democrat Jamie Davis ran a credible race, getting within two points of Letlow. It was a near thing.
The House races are another thing entirely. Predictably, Democrat Troy Carter won his race out of New Orleans. That was no surprise. Republicans Mike Hohnson, Steve Scalise, and Cla y Higgins won easily. Two House districts are in a runoff situation. Both the 5th and 6th districts will have final elections in December. I live in the 5th District, which is trying to flip from D to R. Generally, December elections in Louisiana are low turnout, so the candidates will have to have a good ground game to get their voters to the polls.
The next two years are going to be interesting and the 2028 Presidential race starts today.
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By Dave Workman A new report from the Second Amendment Foundation’s director of legal research and education has once again shown how the gun prohibition lobby is more interested in ratcheting down on the rights of law-abiding gun owners than reducing violent crime. It is a subject TGM has previously discussed how groups such as […]
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NC: Spindale - Worker/Owner of Business Confronts Combative man, Is Attacked, Shoots, Kills Attacker
The police department said Rhodes briefly walked away from the area, but he returned, approaching the suspect while yelling and screaming. The suspect was standing in front of the shopping plaza, directly before the entrance of the business and also said he was carrying his firearm for protection, police said.
According to video footage, police said Rhodes "animatedly" or in a lively manner approached the suspect, and after a verbal exchange, Rhodes lunged at the suspect, appearing to strike him. Police said the suspect fired one shot, hitting Rhodes and ultimately killing him.
A witness told investigators Durham entered the business and punched another man in the face. The witness then heard two gunshots and saw Durham run from the building.
Investigators said the other man fired a handgun during the confrontation, striking Durham in the hand. The man was taken to Willis-Knighton North with minor head injuries.
According to police, the witness said Durham had previously threatened to harm the man because he believed the man was having an affair with his wife.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said 36-year-old Natalia Gaviria, of Kissimmee, got heavily intoxicated before entering the Dollar General. Once inside, she reportedly pulled out a knife, began waving it around and threatened customers.
Store employees quickly ushered customers out of the building and called 911. During the encounter, investigators said Gaviria stabbed a soda bottle inside the business.
Two residents drew their concealed firearms and held Gaviria at gunpoint until law enforcement officers arrived. Sheriff Judd noted that under Florida law, residents do not need a permit to carry a concealed firearm.
According to authorities, an 80-year-old homeowner called to report the break-in. At some point, the suspected burglar was shot and killed.
When deputies arrived, they found the 80-year-old victim, who was unharmed, and took him to the hospital for a minor medical concern.
James Thacher's Military Journal 75-6 (1823) recounts his contemporaneous and often eye-witness experience of the war. Some of these stories are not new to me or likely you but there are details that are for me:
October. By some gentlemen from head quarters, near New York, we are amused with an account of a singular machine, invented by a Mr. D. Bushnell of Connecticut, for the purpose of destroying the British shipping by explosion. This novel machine was so ingeniously constructed, that, on examination, Major General Putnam was decidedly of opinion that its operations might be attended with the desired suc- cess ; accordingly he encouraged the inventor, and resolved to be himself a spectator of the experiment on the British shipping in New York harbor. Mr. Bushnell gave to his machine the name of American Turtle or Torpedo. It was constructed on the principles of submarine navigation, and on trial it has been ascertained that it might be rowed horizontally, at any given depth under water, and the adventurer, concealed within, might rise or sink, as occasion re- quires. A magazine of powder was attached to it in such a manner as to be screwed into the bottom of the ship ; and being now disengaged from the ma- chine the operator retires in safety, leaving the in- ternal clock work in motion ; and at the distance of half an hour, or an hour, the striking of a gun lock communicates fire to the powder, and the explosion takes place. It was determined to make the experi ment with this machine in the night, on the ship Eagle, of sixty four guns, on board of which admiral Lord Howe commanded. General Putnam placed himself on the wharf to witness the result. Mr. Bushnell had instructed his brother in the management of the Torpedo with perfect dexterity ; but being taken sick a sergeant of a Connecticut regiment was selected for the business, who, for want of time, could not be properly instructed. He however. succeeded so far as to arrive in safety with his apparatus under the bottom of the ship, when the screw, designed to perforate the copper sheathing, unfortunately struck against an iron plate, near the rudder, which, with the strong current and want of skill in the operator, frustrated the enterprize ; and, as day light had begun to appear, the sergeant abandoned his magazine, and returned in the Torpedo to the shore. In less than half an hour a terrible explosion from the magazine took place, and threw into the air a prodigious column of water, resembling a great water spout, attended with a report like thunder. General Putnam, and others who waited with great anxiety for the result, were exceedingly amused with the astonishment and alarm which this secret explo-sion occasioned on board of the ship. This failure, it is confidently asserted, is not to be attributed to any defect in the principles of this wonderful machine ; as it is allowed to be admirably calculated to execute destruction among the shipping.
The explanation that I have read in the past is that the failure to get an adequate bite into the copper bottom meant that turning the screw just spun the submarine. This makes more sense.
- After recent PLAN live fire exercises in the area, an object turned up on the beach in Papua New Guinea. The Chinese embassy said it was probably a wine bottle and nothing to worry about. (The object in question.)
- Another warning that AI's financial rewards aren't being reaped by anybody but AI companies.
- A defense contractor gave their personal AI agent access to sensitive Pentagon systems.
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Today is election day. Please get out and vote. I know that our votes don’t mean a lot in some instances, but in many mid-term races they still do. (For example, pro-gun candidate Brandon Herrera is running for Congress in Texas’s 23rd District.) Also, please pray for smaller and more responsible government. – JWR — Soon after last Tuesday’s blog was posted, I heard that Walter Koenig passed away. He will be missed. Ironically, he long outlived Anton Yelchin, who also played Ensign Pavel Chekov in the much more recent Star Trek movies. (Yelchin was accidentally crushed to death at …
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The short answer is maybe. To increase your possibilities of survival, read this article. As we were reviewing our food storage and other supplies, my Mom made an interesting observation which resulted in a conversation about why many people won’t survive and a potential solution. My mother is our chief logistician–meaning that she plans and coordinates the purchasing and storage of our food and other supplies. Most women are the logisticians for their family with sometimes over 90 percent of the food purchasing done by women. When our truck or a semi-truck needs to be unloaded, the men in my …
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The following recipe for Hamburger A L’Italienne is from Good Housekeeping’s Book of Good Meals. This 1927-copyrighted book (now in public domain) is one of the 11 books that I paid to have professionally scanned that will be added to the extensive library of bonus books included with the SurvivalBlog 2027 Edition waterproof archive USB sticks. (Available for ordering in mid-January, 2027.) Ingredients 2 peeled onions 1 cupful salad oil 1 pound hamburg steak 2 cupfuls stewed tomatoes 1 cupful grated cheese 1 teaspoonful salt 1/2 teaspoonful pepper 1/4 tsp Worcestershire sauce 1 cupful egg noodles Directions Brown the onions, …
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Today’s graphic is a map that shows States with a smaller population (in brown) than Los Angeles metropolitan area. (Graphic courtesy of Reddit.) The thumbnail image below is click-expandable. — If any SurvivalBlog readers have personally taken or otherwise hold the copyright to a particularly nice landscape photo or other photo of particular interest to preppers that is in a wide horizontal format (to match our blog template) then please send it in as an e-mail attachment, and I will consider posting it as a Graphic of the Week, or as a Top Note photo. I can of …
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In Economics & Investing Media of the Week we feature photos, charts, graphs, maps, video links, and news items of interest to preppers. Economics & Investing Links of Interest Binance hacked: Bitcoin exchange hit by ‘biggest crypto hack in history’ – $5bn. Binance hack: Investigators in a ‘cat and mouse game’ to recover $6.3 billion in stolen funds. Precious metals prices rebounded on Monday (November 1, 2026.) Gold was up 1.96% to $3,967.70, and Silver up 3.31% to $51.56. Mapped: Where Data Centers Have Raised Power Prices the Most. Published by the WSJ last Thursday (19/29): Alphabet Sheds Half a Trillion in …
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SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods. This column is a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from JWR. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. In today’s column, even more AI predictions. AI Safety Leader Says AI Will Kill Us All in the Next 10 Years Over at YahooTech: An AI safety leader says he stopped …
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Our weekly Snippets column is a collection of short items: responses to posted articles, practical self-sufficiency items, how-tos, lessons learned, tips and tricks, and news items — both from readers and from SurvivalBlog’s editors. Note that we may select some long e-mails for posting as separate letters. Pictured above is world travel adventurer Karl Bushby. — First up, in The New York Times: After 28 Years Walking Across the Globe, He’s Almost Home. A brief excerpt: “Earlier this month, he swam across the English Channel, arriving in his home country after spending half his life away. His trek began in southern …
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REDOUBT NEWS LINKS This weekly column features media from around the American Redoubt region. (Idaho, Montana, eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, and Wyoming.) Much of the region is also more commonly known as The Inland Northwest. Idaho: Amazon Prime Air drone delivery launches in Nampa. Montana: Friday-night Eureka shooting leaves 2 injured, 2 dead including a deputy. Ambition Strikes: Finishing The Roof on our Abandoned Mansion. Inside Idaho’s Yankum Ropes: New Burley facility fuels off-roading growth. Wyoming Game and Fish speaks on “unusual” wildlife roaming in 2026. 3 dead after helicopters collide midair in Oregon. Montana Public Service Commission to take …
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To be prepared for a crisis, every Prepper must establish goals and make both long-term and short-term plans. In this column, the SurvivalBlog editors review their week’s prep activities and planned prep activities for the coming week. These range from healthcare and gear purchases to gardening, ranch improvements, bug-out bag fine-tuning, and food storage. This is something akin to our Retreat Owner Profiles, but written incrementally and in detail, throughout the year. We always welcome you to share your own successes and wisdom in your e-mailed letters. We post many of those — or excerpts thereof — in the Odds …
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The latest meme created by JWR: Meme Text: Sarah Connor Says: I Tried To Warn You 35 Years Ago, But Now You’re Using AI and You’re Thinking: “What Could Possibly Go Wrong?” Notes From JWR: Do you have a meme idea? Just e-mail me the concept, and I’ll try to assemble it. And if it is posted then I’ll give you credit. Thanks! Permission to repost memes that I’ve created is granted, provided that credit to SurvivalBlog.com is included.
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“We must be as stealthy as rats in the wainscoting of their society. It was easier in the old days, of course, and society had more rats when the rules were looser, just as old wooden buildings have more rats than concrete buildings. But there are rats in the building now as well. Now that society is all ferrocrete and stainless steel there are fewer gaps in the joints. It takes a very smart rat indeed to find these openings. Only a stainless steel rat can be at home in this environment…” – Harry Harrison, The Stainless Steel Rat
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Tomorrow is a state holiday in Louisiana. The schools are closed and the mail won't run. The polls will be open, though. Tomorrow is the last day for voting in Louisiana. Early voting was several weeks ago and mail-in ballots are due no later than COB today.
The Democrats are hoping for a blue wave that will flip the House and the Senate. We'll see. They have the history of the midterms, but several of their candidates are batshit crazy. Here in Louisiana we have a machine Republican that not a lot of people are happy with, versus an old-style Democrat. The Democrat is a farmer from North Louisiana. The Republican is a white woman; the Democrat is a black man. It is an interesting conjunction, and many people say that the race is close.
I voted early, which is a lot easier than going to the poll on voting day. I'll be watching tomorrow, paying attention to Michigan, Texas, Alaska and Louisiana. Will Congress change hands tomorrow?
Man caught in car with £14k of drugs as a lamb ate chips in the back seat avoids jail
Reloaders have made their own dippers for measuring powder charges for decades. I made a dipper from an empty .22 Long Rifle case and some copper wire, and tried it out with three different fast burning pistol powders: Accurate No.2 (AAC-2), Alliant Bullseye, and Hodgdon Titegroup.
I was hoping to get a dipper that would throw very small charges suitable for use in small, low pressure cartridges like .32 S&W Long. However, the charge weights are a bit higher than I'd wanted.
To measure, I threw 10 charges of each powder and weighed them individually on a Frankford Arsenal digital scale. I then took the average of those 10 charges.
My results (It is likely that yours will vary, see below!):
- AAC-2: 3.08 grains
- Bullseye: 2.98 grains
- Titegroup: 3.68 grains
To put these into perspective, with AAC-2 or Bulleye, these charges are good for loading .38 Special 148 grain wadcutters. They'd be light loads under a 158 grain semiwadcutter or round nose bullet, because those aren't seated as deeply in the case, thus lowering chamber pressure.
In .32 H&R Magnum, 3.0 grains of AAC-2 would be a mild load with a 100 grain lead bullet. Likewise, 3.0 grains of Bullseye would be a mild load with 96 - 100 grain lead round nose bullet.
The Titegroup load would approximate a .38 Special (not +P) 158 grain service load. It could also be used to load 85 grain JHPs in .32 H&R Magnum.
VERY IMPORTANT WARNING:
Before you rely on this data consult with one or more loading manuals. Use at your own risk.
If you try this make sure to create your own charge table. The amount of powder a dipper will measure will vary depending on the case used, the manufacturing lot of the powder, and your technique.
Since this dipper measures out charges larger than what I was after, I plan to make another one with a .22 Short case to see what that gets me.
Pulsar has just released the Thermion 3 LRF, the third generation of its classic-design thermal riflescope.
In mid-October an apparently mentally ill sixteen-year-old entered an elementary school in Bend, Oregon and murdered three children and an adult and wounded two more victims. His murder spree was cut short when a thirty-something father of two young students there happened to be passing by, saw the gunman approaching the school, and stopped his […]The post Unique Prototype FN FAL in .30 Carbine first appeared on Forgotten Weapons.
Charles County Sheriff’s detectives are investigating a homicide that occurred early this morning, October 31, at The Cut Bar & Restaurant, located at 2570 Business Park Court in Waldorf. At approximately 1:46 a.m., officers responded to the establishment for a reported stabbing and shooting. The preliminary investigation indicates an altercation occurred between two men inside the bar. During the confrontation, one of the men produced a knife and threatened the other man. A private security guard assigned to the business attempted to intervene and gain control of the suspect’s hand and the knife. As the confrontation continued, the suspect stabbed the victim once in the abdomen. As the suspect appeared to make another attempt to stab the victim, the security guard discharged his firearm, striking the suspect once in the chest. The suspect walked outside the establishment and collapsed in the parking lot. Responding officers located him with the knife still in his hand. Officers and emergency medical personnel provided medical assistance; however, he was pronounced deceased at the scene.
According to court filings described by The Columbus Dispatch, officers who arrived found Cusmaan lying partially inside the right rear passenger seat of a 2016 Chrysler 200 with a gunshot wound, and he was later pronounced dead by Mifflin Township medics. Investigators reviewing surveillance footage allege Ibrahim got out of the Chrysler from the rear driver’s-side door and began firing a handgun before fleeing, The Columbus Dispatch reported.
Court records also state that Omar, an employee of the mosque, was inside the building while a funeral service was being held before he followed several juveniles involved in the incident, The Columbus Dispatch reported. Omar was then seen pulling a handgun from beneath his thobe and firing at one of the juvenile suspects, according to those records as reported by The Columbus Dispatch.
By Dave Workman On the eve of a historic vote on whether Massachusetts citizens will keep or repeal onerous Chapter 135 governing gun law in the Commonwealth, the executive director of the Massachusetts Gun Owners Action League (GOAL) got a startling surprise when he tried to download gun laws already in effect in the Bay […]
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