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A meme I've seen recently.
America: I'm your huckleberry
Iran: Fights not with you, America.
America: I beg to differ, sir. We started a game we didn't get to finish. "Death to America", remember?
Iran: I was just fooling about.
America: I wasn't.
EJ brought home a flu bug (one that apparently the "flu shot" didn't cover this season), and I got it, and had to go to the hospital with some breathing issues. Spent most of the week there, getting treatment with a respiratory therapist and a bunch of other anti-flu drugs, and am home now, recovering nicely.
As I was sitting in my hospital bed drinking the "Ensure" they gave me I thought "great, it's just because I'm old. . . ." The nurse read my mind and said, "3 other people hospitalized with the same thing here this week were in their 30's.
I felt a little better.
But be watching, this particular strain of Type A Influenza goes into pneumonia very easily, and there have been several thousand deaths in the US already this year from it. Personally, Covid for me was like any other head cold; this was nasty.
I'll be back in a week, taking some time away from the computer to just chill and recover. - Brigid
I have reached a milestone that is probably small to many of you and doesn’t mean much but to me its a big deal. This is my first ever benchrest rifle built around a lonestar action. I was having a bit of regret to be honest after I started seeing not so great comments about […]
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Law enforcement said the gunfire followed a verbal altercation between McKever and the 19-year-old victim. Investigators said both men suffered gunshot wounds during the exchange and were treated at local hospitals, where the victim remains in critical condition.
- Three F-15E Strike Eagles got engaged by friendly SAMs over Kuwait, according to CENTCOM. All the Mudhen crews ejected safely.
- In Congressional briefings, administration officials contradict the narrative that we had intel that Iran was preparing a strike Epic Fury was preemptive.
- Dwindling weapons stockpiles could hamper operations.
- Oil prices rising, gas prices will inevitably follow.
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On March 2, 1793, Alexandre de Beauharnais, the first husband of Joséphine de Beauharnais, was arrested during the Reign of Terror. He was later executed. — And on March 2, 1799, Congress standardizes US weights and measures. — Please pray for peace in the Middle East, and the replacement of Iran’s Islamic theocratic regime with a reasonable, limited government. After 47 years of tyranny, the Iranian people deserve better! — Today’s feature piece is by Field Gear Editor Ton Christianson.
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Built around a rugged windage and elevation adjustment tool for the front sight of AK-pattern firearms, the Midwest Industries AK Multi Tool is a great range-bag-companion for the AK owner. Constructed of heavy-duty, nickel-plated 4140 steel, the tool provides a gas tube wrench, handguard cap lever wrench, and multi-function knubs for muzzle brake detents or recoil button compression in addition to the windage and elevation adjustment tool. The tool comes with a clear set of directions for those who are new to adjusting the sights on an AK. It is made in the U.S.A., and cost $84.95 at midwestindustriesinc.com at …
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The following recipe for Braised Spring Vegetables is from SurvivalBlog reader Ellen H. She says:\ “This is my variation on a recipe that I found posted online a decade ago. I now make this in springtime, every year. Ingredients 4 scallions or 1 spring onion, trimmed and thinly sliced 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped 3 tablespoons of olive oil 3 tablespoons low-sodium chicken broth, or water 8 ounces asparagus, woody ends trimmed off. Cut the stalks into 1-½ inch pieces 1 cup shelled fresh fava beans (from about 1 pound pods), peeled, or sugar snap peas, trimmed and halved crosswise …
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Today’s graphic: Percent of Population without Health Insurance, by County (U.S.). (Graphic courtesy of Reddit and ZipCrawl.) The thumbnail below is click-expandable. From the ZipCrawl website: NOTE: Gray indicates insufficient data or a suppressed estimate. Explore the geographic distribution of uninsured Americans across every county in the United States. This map traces the consequences of Medicaid expansion decisions, immigration patterns, and labor market structures – revealing how a single state policy choice created dramatic coverage disparities at state borders, and how the Texas-Mexico corridor has become the uninsured capital of the developed world. JWR Adds: Illegal immigration is …
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“The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is engulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them.” – Thomas Jefferson, letter to Judge Spencer Roane, March 9, 1821
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Watching news this afternoon, we learn that at least five US service members have been killed as a part of the ongoing operations against Iran. We mourn their loss.
Part of the problem, as I see it, is that the freedom-loving Iranian patriots have nothing to fight with. How difficult would it be to gather a bunch of AKs, load them into gun cases with a couple of magazines, and "leaflet drop" them in areas where freedom-loving Iranians might find them. Sort of like what we did with the Liberator pistol in World War II?
I do mourn the loss of American service members and pray for their souls and that their sacrifice bears fruit.
- CENTCOM denies IRGC claims about striking the USS Abraham Lincoln with four ballistic missiles, saying they didn't even come close.
- "This war brought to you by Draftkings Sportsbook..."
- Maersk avoiding shipping routes in the Red Sea and Persian Gulf less than a month after resuming normal Suez traffic.
NEW from Rise Armament comes the REV 535! A new AR-15 trigger with a ton of great features.Needless to say, I support Anthropic here. I’m a sensible moderate on the killbot issue (we’ll probably get them eventually, and I doubt they’ll make things much worse compared to AI “only” having unfettered access to every Internet-enabled computer in the world). But AI-enabled mass surveillance of US citizens seems like the sort of thing we should at least have a chance to think over, rather than demanding it from the get-go.
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“I started shooting at him. The guy hit me and then he got out of his car and he started hitting my window,” Farden told the dispatcher. “I was the one who was doing the shots because he was banging on my window.”
Farden tells the dispatcher that he is armed with “a long rifle 22.”
“So, basically, I was taking the exit and then he came,” Farden told the dispatcher. “We was coming down the same highway. I got it on video. He was trying to like run me off the road. I don’t know why he was trying to run me off the road, and then we got to the exit and we got to like the three lanes and he was behind the car that was behind me, so I guess he was trying to cut in front of the car that was behind me, and then he came. He was speeding so, when he came, I was merging into the other lane too, so he hit me. That’s when he pulled my door open and when he pulled my door open, that’s when I cocked the rifle back and I just shot him. I have got a video of him walking up to my car. I don’t know why he stopped.”
March 1, 1872: Yellowstone became the world’s first national park. — Today is the birthday of actor and former WW2 commando David Niven. His full name was James David Graham Niven. (1910-1983.) — Today is also the birthday of the late singer, songwriter, and cowboy poet Allen Wayne Damron. Damron was quite the Texan, through and through. (Born 1939, died August 13, 2005, in Terlingua, Texas.) — All eyes are on the Middle East. The Iranian ex-pat news service Tousi TV seems to have the most complete coverage. But note that they have a strong bias toward Shah-in-Exile Pahlavi. — …
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JWR’s Introductory Note: This photo-intensive article was written by our long-time friend Patrice Lewis. It was posted at her excellent Rural Revolution blog. We highly recommend bookmarking it. Last fall, if you remember, we had a bumper crop of spaghetti squash. With this much abundance, we were tasked with how best to store the sheer volume. In the end, we divvied up the ripe squash from the unripe, then stored the ripe squash in the well house. The unripe squash was stacked in crates in the library, where it slowly ripened over a …
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The latest meme created by JWR: Meme Text: Finally, Some Epstein Co-Conspirator Arrest Warrants But Pam Bondi is Baffled Why There Have Been No Arrests News Links: 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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“I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, 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 …
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Thunderbird was not the problem. There are vendors of IP blacklists for either users or ISPs with systems that spam, or are infected. Somehow, Sparklight ended up blacklisted. This should surprise no one. Lots of people spam for a living; I know one person who did for a couple years before his conscience got in the way. My mail host relies on the blacklist services. They whitelisted my IP. The problem persisted.
Somewhere within their SMTP server, my now legitimate emails were getting stored in the Sent folder and then quietly, without warning, discarded. I do not why, but they fixed it.
One of the reasons that I do not pull my Televue-85 out and use it as often as I would like is that it is a very expensive telescope. To put it on the mount requires holding the tube with one hand while putting it in the dovetail while using the other hand to tighten the clamping screw.
As I( was putting it on the mount last night I realized that I have a solution staring at me. This is the 3" Televue clamshell ring:
This ring both simplifies positioning it on a mount and attaching various finder attachments. Those are 10-32 screw holes. After a long useful chat with SuperGrok attempting to find a furniture handle with the right dimensions, I realized the solution is to buy a 4" x 2" x1/8" wall rectangular aluminum tube. Cut a .625" slice, then drill through holes 1.25" apart in one side. Sand everything smooth run it over the polishing wheel, and use some stainless steel socket head screws to lock it down. The hole will fit my hand comfortably and I will be far less afraid to mount it with a really solid grip on it.
I can convert the rest of that 12" tube into 15 more handles for sale. There is almost no labor involved. Cut the slice, mill to .65" wide. Put in mill and drill two holes in one side, sand with 320 grit, then polish. I suspect that I will find vuyers.
The Iranian bully Khamenei is deceased. It's about time. I understand that Israel is claiming that one of their planes dropped this particular warhead on him.
It couldn't happen to a nicer guy. I wonder how many of the other top leaders got taken out? I'm sure that we will learn more as time goes on.
That whole "Death to America" crap should have conse1quences.
And of course, slavery as well: The peasants are not subhuman, just a lesser class of humans whose natural function is to work so that we may do important things that they barely understand. See Jefferson's description of this: "the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god."
I stumbled across this and like it. Not sure if it's Country or not, but if it's finger-pickin' then you're at least Country adjacent.
It looks like US forces struck Iran in a daylight raid while we slept last night. I awoke this morning to news of the raid. Iran stuck back, sending missiles to Israel and Bahrain.
It will take time to asses the damage, but it appears we struck more than military targets. One reporter was saying that the Iranian parliament and the Judiciary was hit as part of the raid. Other reporters were talking about the number of air assets we have staged in the region. It's a fairly hefty force.
On the home front, I've been busier than a cat in a sandbox lately. Lots of stuff going on. None of it worth reporting here.
On Saturday, Mr. Trump announced that “major combat operations” were underway in Iran. The Department of Defense has called the strikes “Operation Epic Fury.”Did they poll middle school Call of Duty players for the operation name? I miss the good ol' days when we named them after strippers, like Odyssey Dawn.
Official Pentagon spokesman PubliusMaximus1488 announced that “We’ve totally mogged Iran with Operation Based Bombmaxxing. We’d like to thank the best president ever for making America great again.”Fundamentally unserious people.
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On February 28, 1638, Scottish Presbyterians signed the National Covenant at Greyfriars, Edinburgh. — February 28, 1810: The first US fire insurance joint-stock company was organized, in Philadelphia. — And on February 28, 1844 a 12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton exploded, killing US Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur, Secretary of the Navy Thomas Gilmer, and other high-ranking federal officials. — Today, we present a guest piece by fellow blogger Mrs. Alaska. She is a long-time SurvivalBlog reader who lives off-grid and off-road in the interior of Alaska. — We still need entries for Round 123 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction …
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The following describes my approach at pressure canning meat and dairy products, with some comments on fruit, vegetables, and other preservation methods Pressure canning cookbooks, like Ball’s Blue Book, include recipes for making and canning meat broths, but, in my experience, most do not for meat itself. Similarly, they lack recipes for canning most dairy items. However, families have canned both for generations. Below, I share my positive experience of canning meats, cheese, and butter, for shelf-stable pantry items, based on the advice of friends whose families have done so for decades, and from my own experiences over many years …
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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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“Truly my soul waiteth upon God: from him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved. How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence. They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah. My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him. He only is my rock and …
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