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On December 30, 1861, Associated Banks in New York City — innovators in credit clearing circles (pictured above) — halted gold payments to government and investors, to disrupt Abraham Lincoln‘s US bank reform program. — December 30, 1865 was the birthday of Rudyard Kipling. — Today’s feature article is a product review, written by Field Gear Editor Tom Christianson. — We need more entries for Round 122 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. More than $978,000 worth of prizes have been awarded since we started running this contest. Round 122 ends on January 31st, 2026, so get busy writing and …
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I recently tested a number of FrogLube products for effectiveness for firearms cleaning, lubrication, and corrosion resistance. I tested FrogLube Lubricant-Protectant and FrogLube Extreme Lubricant and Preservative for corrosion resistance. I tested FrogLube Super Degreaser and FrogLube Solvent for cleaning. I tested FrogLube Extreme Lubricant and Preservative for its effectiveness as a lubricant. My standard gun care products are kerosene for cleaning and Breakfree CLP for lubrication and corrosion resistance. I found the performance of FrogLube products to be roughly comparable to my standards under temperate conditions. In my limited testing, I felt that FrogLube Extreme Lubricant and Preservative was …
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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. News Video: Montana rancher begins to excavate potentially record-setting T-Rex. (Pictured above is a smaller T. Rex that was found in Alberta.) In north Idaho, two new Destination Rove videos: New roof before winter hits?, and Bonus: Yamaha vs. Arctic Cat ATV. Fascinating video: Montana Predator Trail Camera Videos. Send Your Media Links Please send your links to media from the American Redoubt region to JWR. Any photos …
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“Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.” – Henry Ward Beecher
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If you were an Armor of Caverly Officer in the70s or 80s, there were three places woven into the knowledge base of those who served. Grafenwoehr in Germany, Camp Casey in Korea, and Area 5 North at Fort Knox.
I didn't know Belle when I was a soldier. We met after I had retired. I was reminiscing tonight about the times I spent at Knox and she commented that the next time we were in Kentucky, we needed to take an extra day and visit the post. Knox is no longer the home of Armor and Cavalry, it is now some sort of Finance Center. I pulled up Google Maps and started looking for places that were instrumental during my younger years.
My basic training barracks is gone. The place where I billeted the company I commanded is gone. The housing area where I lived has been bulldozed. The one place that the Army could not bulldoze is still there. Area 5 North, a maneuver area thoroughly revied by everyone who spent miserable weeks on that piece of ground. The scars are still there and can be seen from space.
An hour after midnight Jan. 1, as a small brush fire blazed across Topanga State Park, a California State Parks employee texted the Los Angeles Fire Department’s heavy equipment supervisor to find out if they were sending in bulldozers.
“Heck no that area is full of endangered plants,” Capt. Richard Diede replied at 9:52 a.m, five hours after LAFD declared the fire contained.
“I would be a real idiot to ever put a dozer in that area,” he wrote. “I’m so trained.”
Winnebago County Sheriff’s Deputies were called to a home in the 2000 block of Anjali Way, near AMC Showplace 14, around 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, December 26th.
A victim reported that he interrupted a burglary at his home. According to police, the victim struggled with King and a shot was fired.
King fled the scene, but later showed up at a Rockford hospital suffering from a gunshot wound.
DOJ, despite publicizing its championing of rights restoration, officially disagrees. [More] “What do we have to do to be considered?” seems a simple enough question gun owners who put this administration in office deserve an answer to.
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Firearm Ownership in America by Year [More] Household percentages were higher back in the day, but they were asleep at the switch so that infringements could sneak in. A friend of mine sent me an American Rifleman from 1949, and there were plenty of great gun ads, and anyone could get one in the days … Continue reading "Quantity Has a Quality All It’s Own"
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What WAS a surprise was that the technician was spray painting the colored markings for the gas line work ON THE SNOW, which was already melting.
Yes, every Village has an idiot. We just have more than one.
When did common sense go out the window? Is it something I just noticed once I got to the "Get Off my Lawn" age, when it's so easy to forget the dreams and illusions of youth in the cynicism that creeps in as we pass 60? I was reading a fairy tale to my youngest grandchild once, and I suddenly thought, "Look, A pumpkin turns into a fully-outfitted, gilded coach, and Cinderella just blindly gets in it and rides away. Who in their right mind would DO that? Apparently, Cinderella did and found her Prince and a happy ever after. The rest of us? We usually get a sharp dose of reality and glass slippers that REALLY hurt to wear.
Some of what might be considered common sense is innate intelligence, and that's all relative. I always thought I was pretty clever, then one day I went to the U of Pennsylvania, where my former father-in-law, a robotics pioneer, was professor of computer information science in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. In his lab, there was a robotic arm that would play ping pong with you and win. It was built by a freshman. At that moment, I felt incredibly stupid. I muttered "beer, donut" and quietly left to liberally sprinkle some chicken and myself with some white wine as I made dinner with my mother-in-law.
Some of my aerial adventures certainly decry any semblance of good sense. But even on my worst day, I didn't imagine some of the things I encountered over the course of my later career in the aviation equivalent of "hold my beer". Most survived, and with a legal slap on the wrist or just a stern talking-to, never did such things again. But there were just some fools who seemed to dare us to come out to be the witnesses and guarantors of the outcome of the very act we spent so much time trying to prevent. But some just didn't listen or learn, and the day inevitably came when I ended up at a front door. I know I'm supposed to start with “I'm sorry for your loss,” but I couldn't. I merely stood there as someone who had just aged before my eyes, grabbed onto me like a lifeline, breaking into tears. I remember one woman on a small drought-ravaged farm. She couldn't have been much more than a hundred pounds and felt like a bundle of sticks against my muscled form as she cried, sticks that had weathered so much for many years, only to be tossed upon a fire, for which I could offer no healing rain. You don't forget that.
Somewhere in the Good Book it says know thyself, and though my interpretation of that was likely well out of context, I learned early on about limitations and tried not to exceed them, or red line. Looking in the mirror this morning, I note the scar where I got whacked hard by the bungee cord of a CF700 engine cover standing out in relief on alabaster skin that shows every worry, every tear. I realize that I, too, made mistakes that changed a life, often mine, in ways other than good, and that it was only through fate, luck, or a God who factored in my own stupidity when putting a calling on my life, that I am still here.
I didn't learn immediately; there was something about the unknown, the unexplored, the "what if?" in life. I was the kid that even though I got straight A's, fidgeted in class, couldn't sit still, looking at the whole "classroom" aspect of life as a waste of time which drove me half-consciously, out into the world as soon as that bell rang away from a comfortable berth, from the menace of the mundane, to the wonders of a world beyond walls. Even as a child, I understood the ancient human instinct of the chase, and I rushed out to claim what I thought was lacking in my structured upbringing: wisdom to acquire, adventures to behold, and fun to have.
Which again was quickly quashed by my mom, who was a former Deputy Sheriff for Multnomah County in Oregon. She had seen too many ways to end up in a body bag and passed on some of that wisdom. The lessons took; I attempted to daydream less and listen more, and later in life, as airmen say, to keep the pointy end forward and the rubber side down.
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Like my mom, I later learned the ramifications of physics too well. I'd like to say I retired without ever having to burn my clothes at the end of the workday, but I can't. I'd also like to think I could take in all that the world dished out at me like a trooper, but I can't. Sometimes late in the night, I'll wake from a dream, one I have often of an actual event, a crash where the aircraft broke apart as it hit trees and terrain, a fireball erupting from a fuel tank. Two were killed immediately, but another onboard wasn't at the scene. A grid was walked; there were footsteps in the snow and pieces of soot and burned fabric. The body was surprisingly far from the wreckage. He'd run clear, then walked, then crawled, already dead, just not realizing it yet as he strove to flee. I stood there and cried so hard that I had to don new PPE. It's an image I will take to my grave.
I wake up today to my mortality in a world that's full of those still wandering in happy denial. I can't change them; I can only change myself. I gave up alcohol years ago, I eat extra veggies and apparently when I was a kid and said, "I can't wait to grow up so I can stay up as late as I want", as late as I want apparently is 9:30. I can't undo past excesses, poor choices (never order the seafood at that restaurant in the terminal with little foot traffic at SFO International), and questionable taste in automobiles (seriously, I owned a Dodge Shadow??) But I can live with where it brought me. Moments of the loss of sense or self are nothing more than fate's little footnote, already fading, a scent, the sound of a voice, a flower pressed between pages, never to be opened again. Those regrets don't drive my day; they are a shade, a shadow, a whispered warning, perhaps, but a quiet one.
Outside, there is snow. I'm going to go out in footwear that is not suitable, fueled by a bowl of Frosted Flakes and too much caffeine, and seize the day. I have my lessons, years of patience, and extreme care that got me through broken clouds, turbulent air, and unforecast change, where the senses of my command brought me out to safety. How slow had been those flights of passage, and how quickly they were over.
So, for today, I'm just going to explore, laugh, and wonder in the world. The snow is melting, and the laundry will hold. For what is one day? A short space before the light too soon, and the echo of an owl's wings brushes against the windowsill. Just a brief interlude in the sun's dance.
My past may have brought high winds, bent trees, and fire; a helter-skelter of responsibility, fear, danger, and the occasional fractured heart. Such is what I did, and such
is what I am. But for today, I'll embrace what comes my way: the trees, a refuge of familiar order; the few remaining leaves; a brace of tattered flags against ancient wood, not knowing yet that they are dead.
I watch as a leaf flutters down from above, resting on the ground immobile, stilled forever, as it were, until the breeze picks it up and spins it aloft towards the sun which breaches the perimeter. For now, I have the light, some of the sense my mom instilled in me, and a snowball the size of a small planet in my hand, just waiting for my husband to leave the house.
A new day awaits.
For years I've touted (and recommended) Linux, the Free Open Source Software (FOSS) that is the heart of Internet servers, Internet routing nodes, and Android. I have a lot of experience with Linux, having run it since kernel version 0.99 back in 1994 or so. Slackware on 25 pounds of 3.5" floppy disks FTW.
One question that comes up regularly is what non-technical people can do. While Linux has become a lot easier to install and run, there are still the occasional weirdnesses that some up, link the Brave Browser's refusal to print to anything other than PDF. This means that if you live in a Linux world, you regularly have to come figure out workarounds.
And thus, the questions. It's pretty easy for someone like me with 30 years of Linux experience* (good Lord, can it really be that long???), but for everyday folks who don't dig kernel versions and package dependencies, it's a daunting prospect.
As it turns out, there is a ton of high quality FOSS software for Windows and Mac users, and as your current computer ages and falls out of support, these can be a great way to extend the life of your computer.
I highly recommend this article from The Register on where to find high quality, non-malware FOSS packages. It's very long and information-rich, so if you have an aging computer and you really don't want to load Linux on it, it's worth 10 minutes of your time.
Strongly recommended for normal computer users. Techie users will stay with sudo apt-get install foo but that just sort of proves my point.
About the only thing you won't get for your old Windows or Mac computer are security updates once the OS is end of life. That's a big issue these days, and while it is possible to lock down a (say) old Windows OS to minimize your risk, it probably takes more tech savvy that installing Linux. But if you are still getting security patches, FOSS can help you adapt to your apps demanding you upgrade the OS.
* Interestingly, each year for the last 20 years has been "This is the year of Linux", and it really hasn't because the workarounds haven't ever gone away. I'd argue that the only place where Linux is truly easy to use is Android, because Google invested a ton of money smoothing it out.
However, there were some other things Codrea asked about that weren’t specifically answered, such as what Congress should do about gun-free zones and what kind of role Congress should play with regard to the supposedly pro-gun DOJ continuing to side with the Biden-era positions on Second Amendment cases. [More] And that, to me, needs to … Continue reading "An Incomplete Response"
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In April 2024, Patel appeared at a city council meeting in Bakersfield, California. She stepped up to the microphone and delivered a furious speech about Gaza, metal detectors, oppressors, and revolution. She concluded her remarks with a blunt threat to the elected officials, “We’ll see you at your house, we’ll murder you.” [More] I wonder … Continue reading "A Mental Disorder"
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‘Child assassin’ aged 12 detained in Sweden after ‘shooting wrong person in £20k hit’ [More] I’ve got 10 bucks says his name isn’t “Nils” or “Lars.” [Via bondmen]
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“To My Haters… F You!” – Outgoing DC Police Chief Goes on UNHINGED Screaming Meltdown During Walkout Ceremony [More] Y’ever notice how the least deserving act like they’re the most entitled…? [Via bondmen]
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Awoke this morning to a chilly north breeze, requiring that I break out the flannel. Yesterday, the high was close to the 80s. Today, the high will stretch to make 50. Belle has turned off the AC in the house and has lit the heater. We're expecting a frost tonight.
I know that up north, the Midwest is facing a severe winter storm. My thoughts are with y'all.
We're in the slack time between Christmas and the New Year. 2026 is going to jump off busy, and I'm enjoying the down time. It's time to consider the piddling projects that are best done in the wintertime.
41 Members Of Congress Demand DOJ Halt Gun Control Defense In Fiery Letter [More] Why so few? And will Trump now call them “lowlifes”? [Via bondmen]
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Manhattan D.A. Claims Lawful Carry is ‘Dangerous’ and ‘Disruptive’ Conduct [More] I guess that depends on the conduct being disrupted. Besides, he’s got his. Funny, how that works. Prosecutors against guns. How original. [Via Michael G]
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The other M4 is finally available in the feature set it was meant to have! Full 7+1 capacity, and no compromises.Woman in Florida Barnes & Noble stabbed to death, police seek motive [More] Probably the same motive as here, and here, and…
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Milwaukee families honor loved ones lost to gun violence at annual vigil [More] The real story here is that no one was shot. It’s kind of a thing. I could * do this * all day…
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Opinion: I’m a lifelong gun owner. Don’t tell me more guns and less mental health resources will save our children. [More] I believe in the Second Amendment BUT… Where have we heard that before? Who’s saying dangerous crazy people can be trusted with guns? Is it fair to wonder if this pediatrician gave clot shots … Continue reading "False Alternative"
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By Adam Kraut SAF Executive Director Special to TGM As 2025 comes to an end, I wanted to share something remarkable with you: This has been one of the most significant years in Second Amendment litigation history. Major Victories in 2025 Reese v. ATF – The Fifth Circuit ruled that federal restrictions on handgun sales […]
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openmindedseptic Folks who advocate for legalized guns never seen to take into account the effect that guns have ion others who are not using, like children who are dependents. They never calculate the cost to families, or even the public. The cost of homeless, much of which is due to addiction to guns, imposes a … Continue reading "Closed-Minded"
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Jewish gun club grows in popularity amid wave of antisemitism across US [More] So… how do they vote? Everybody sees the problem with treating all new gun owners like a win for “our side,” right? Old ones, too…
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“Now, being [one of the first people] to actually wear it, I feel proud and empowered as a Muslim woman,” PC Nas said… “In comparison to ones I used to wear, I always had that element of worry that I would be strangled while on duty. [More] See? People are the same all over the … Continue reading "Meanwhile, Across the Pond…"
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New video has emerged of the Christmas Day carjacking of a female Washington State Patrol lieutenant in Seattle, and it shows the suspect casually walking up to her, opening her door, and yanking her out with almost no fight from her. [Watch] On the plus side, she didn’t shoot a cooperative black man.
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Adams told deputies he had been shooting a new Glock .45-caliber handgun he bought for himself for Christmas, and he showed police where he had been shooting in his backyard at a Red Bull on the ground. [More] So… what the hell’s this: And what do those “basic rules” they sign off on in #14 say? See, … Continue reading "Home on the Range"
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- Crossover skills from other hobbies that can improve your pistol shooting.
- 1965 Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight Luxury Sedan: The Rocket Action Car!
- Techbros are still failing to beat the “Don’t understand Tolkien” rap in their corporate naming practices by naming a super premium home security company after a guy killed by burglars.
- "When A.I. Took My Job, I Bought a Chain Saw": When a copy writer kept losing work to AI, he asked a chatbot for career advice. This piece did not go in the direction that I, cynically, thought it was going.
- An extremely cool piece about the fastest cars available in the United Kingdom, decade by decade. Lavishly photographed automotive pornography.
December 29, 1812: The USS Constitution, under the command of Captain William Bainbridge, captured the HMS Java off the coast of Brazil after a three-hour battle. — This is also the birthday of inventor Charles Goodyear (1800–1860.) — The 20th Anniversary SurvivalBlog 2005-2025 Waterproof/EMP-Resistant Archive USB sticks are now available for Pre-Ordering! This year, we are also offering a limited number of them in steel keepsake tins, with keychains. Orders should start to be mailed in the third week of January. To be sure that you get yours, order soon! — With the exceptionally large moves in the silver market, …
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I have some great news: The new batch of 32-gigabyte waterproof SurvivalBlog archive USB sticks is now available for pre-ordering. To order, see the 2005-2025 SurvivalBlog Archive USB stick ordering pages: Standard Edition Keepsake Edition in a custom steel tin, packaged with a keychain Many folks have asked about what is included in the new 20th Anniversary 2005-2025 SurvivalBlog Archive USB stick. There certainly is a lot! Of course, these sticks will have everything that has ever been posted in SurvivalBlog, dating back to its launch in August, 2005, and up to December 31, 2025. In my humble opinion, the …
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Spot silver jumped 10.35% to $79.59 per troy ounce in just one day, on Friday, December 26, 2025. On that day, there were new all-time highs set for silver, platinum, and gold. Spot silver has gained a phenomenal 166% in value in 2025. And now, amazingly, a $1,000 face value bag of pre-1965 non-numismatic “junk” 90% U.S. silver coins now sells for $56,840. Though prices vary, that effectively means that the melt value of one U.S. pre-1965 silver dime (10-cent piece) is now $5.68. And today? In Monday morning trading in China, (that was early Sunday evening, in the United …
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The following recipe for Senator Dan Sullivan’s Alaska Seafood Newburg comes to us by way of SurvivalBlog reader Mike in Alaska. Mike writes: “I got this in an e-mail from my friend U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan of Alaska. He has given permission for publication. We used some Copper River Silver Salmon we caught fresh from the river, one very large fillet in our recipe. It was absolutely wonderful. My wife made the sauce, baked the salmon in the oven and then poured the sauce over the salmon. Fresh caught salmon has a taste that is impossible to beat.” Ingredients 2/3 …
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Today’s graphic: Weapons and Camouflage Patterns in Europe. (Graphic by “Ausspanner”, courtesy of Reddit.) The thumbnail below is click-expandable. — Please send your graphics or graphics links to JWR. (Either via e-mail or via our Contact form.) Any graphics that you send must either be your own creation or uncopyrighted.
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“For all being Kings as much as he, every Man his Equal and the greater Part no strict Observers of Equity and Justice, the enjoyment of the Property he has in this State, is very unsafe, very unsecure. This makes him willing to quit this Condition, which however free, is full of Fears and continual Dangers: And ’tis not without Reason, that he seeks out, and is willing to join in Society with others, who are already united, or have a Mind to unite, for the mutual Preservation of their Lives, Liberties, and Estates, which I call by the general …
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As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon;
let the brow o'erwhelm it.
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
-William Shakespeare - King Henry V
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According to the Barnesville Police Department (BPD), officers were sent to the home on Kate Ct. at around 1:50 a.m. Thursday, when they spoke with a woman who said 35-year-old Gregory Young, her ex-boyfriend and children's father, kicked in the door of her home.
She told police an argument began, leading to a shooting between Young and another man inside the home. BPD said the 31-year-old man was shot in the abdomen, and Young fled the scene.
Police now have warrants out for Young's arrest for two counts of aggravated assault, reckless conduct, 2nd degree home invasion, and possession of a firearm in the commission of a crime. BPD said he has not been apprehended and is last known to be traveling north in a 2006 Chevrolet 3500 Pickup truck with a North Carolina license plate tag.
12/24/25: Aggravated Assault: 2924 Ridgeview Dr SW
On December 28, 1867, the United States claimed Midway Island, the first territory annexed outside continental limits. — December 28, 1793 was the day that Thomas Paine was arrested in France for treason. The charges against him were never fully detailed, but he was tried in absentia on December 26 and convicted. Best known as the author of Common Sense, he moved to Paris to be part of the French revolution. Initially welcomed, the tide soon turned against him, because he was opposed to the death penalty and the French revolutionaries were sending hundreds to the Guillotine. — SurvivalBlog Writing …
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(Continued from Part 4. This concludes the article.) Truckers. Contrary to popular belief, the depiction in the movies of truck drivers being a prime source of hitchhiking rides, just isn’t true. Maybe I’ve been doing something wrong all these years but in all my hitchhiking miles I’ve only been picked up by a trucker once. He explained that between company policies and insurance regulations, they’re not allowed to pick up hitchhikers. So, even though it won’t hurt to try, don’t expect to get many rides from truckers. Comedy. Humor can also help get a ride sometimes. On a cold day …
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The latest meme created by JWR: Meme Text: The Artist, Formerly Known As Prince The Commoner, Formerly Known As Prince News Links: Andrew stripped of ‘prince’ title and will move out of Royal Lodge. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor faces ‘real blow’ as ex-prince has ‘gun licence revoked’. 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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“With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love; Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts …
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Embattled Rep. Ilhan Omar’s husband’s venture capital firm quietly scrubbed key officer details — including former Obama officials — as scrutiny grows over the family’s skyrocketing wealth, The Post has learned.
Omar (D-MN) went from nearly broke to being worth up to $30 million in just a year — as a massive, up to $9 billion fraud scheme involving the Somali community in her district unfolded right under her nose in Minnesota.
Close to 90 people have been charged so far, including at least three with direct ties to the lefty Squad member, though she has not been charged.
Can you imagine the legacy media response to a Republican getting that rich that quickly?
One of the slicker hoglegs I have in my stable is this 4.75" Cimarron Pistolero, built by Pietta. It's a .357 but in my hands it's seen almost entirely .38 Specials. It's one of the guns I kept when my brother and I divided up my father's collection after he passed last year.
As a .357 on a .45 frame it's got a lot of extra metal, which means it soaks up recoil from .38/44-equivalent loads with a 178 Keith and a stiff charge of Herco. Standard pressure .38 Specials are mild to shoot in it.
It's a copy of the Colt Model P and has the original type lockwork, meaning it should be charged with "load 1, skip 1, load 4 and pull the hammer all the way back then lower it onto the empty chamber." For a safety it has a 2-position cylinder pin that when inserted all the way blocks the hammer from dropping fully. This is more to meet import points under the Gun Control Act of 1968 than to actually be used.
I'm waiting on some 158 grain LRNFP bullets from Missouri Bullet Co. with a black powder-compatible lube. I've wanted to try black powder .38 Specials and figure cleanup of a single action will be easier than one of my double action revolvers. (.38 Special was originally a BP round for those who don't know, with 21 grains of BP under a 158 grain LRN bullet.) I load other rounds with BP, btw, so I'm not a newbie at that.
It'll be interesting to see what it'll do with black powder loads.
Couple of months ago, I started looking for my binoculars. I, at one time, owned a nice Japanese binocular. Back in the 80s, I paid about $100 for them. They went with me to the woods, and to the training fields. 10X, bright and clear. The last time I recall suing them was on a deer lease in LaSalle parish, sometime after the turn of the century. I can't lay hands on them now, they seem to have gone away.
On Thanksgiving, I ordered a new set. This time it is Vortex Diamondback. For a bit over $200 from Optics Planet. They came in yesterday after Optics Plante's deplorable shipping methods. We found them shortly after dark last night when checking the mail.
I was sitting on the back patio, playing with them, when I noticed what I thought was a planet in the southeast sky. About 8:30 pm. Sure enough, it was Saturn. I could see the rings plainly through the lenses. Neat! They seem to have good glass at a fair price. Not as good as the Steiner binocs with the artillery reticle, but good enough for my uses.
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Surfing the YouTube, I happened to see the noted English physicist Brian Cox talking about astronomical things. He was saying that gold and diamonds are fairly common in the universe, but somewhat rare on Earth. He thinks that one of the rarest things in the known universe is weed. Earth is the only place in the solar system that has wood, and he suspect that it is uncommon in the broader universe. Interesting.
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Davis and Jenkins were booked on suspicion of attempted robbery with a deadly weapon, conspiracy to commit robbery, burglary while in possession of a gun or deadly weapon, and assault with a deadly weapon.
They were both still hospitalized as of Thursday, and it's unclear when they could make their first court appearances in person.
Davis has priors arrests for theft in 2019 and domestic battery in 2020 and pleaded no contest to both charges, per court records. Jenkins pleaded no contest to a reckless driving charge in 2021.
LVMPD said officers responded around 4:05 p.m. Tuesday to reports of gunfire coming from Haven Oaks Place, part of a residential community near Sky Vista Drive and Red Red Canyon Road. They learned a homeowner shot two men when they allegedly approached him in his garage while they were armed.
The incident occurred around 2 p.m. on Pardee Road near Goddard Road when a silver SUV in the left lane attempted to merge right, but the driver of a gray hatchback wouldn't allow it, according to Taylor Police Detective Phillip Wengrowski.
When the SUV finally moved in front, both vehicles became stuck in traffic. That's when the front seat passenger of the SUV exited his vehicle and approached the hatchback.
"The driver of the second vehicle saw the front seat passenger approaching him. He exited his vehicle with a mace and retreated to the rear of his vehicle," Wengrowski said.
The hatchback driver warned the SUV passenger to back up while spraying mace. The passenger then lifted his shirt to reveal a firearm tucked in his waistband.
"Once the individual who maced saw the gun, he retreated back into his vehicle," Wengrowski said.