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Last week, the Atlantic hurricane season blew through its traditional peak—which comes around September 10—with nary a tropical wave in sight, let alone a storm or hurricane.
This is remarkable. Usually this is the time of year when sea surface temperatures reach their warmest in the tropics, and with a favorable atmosphere it should be smooth skating for tropical systems. But this year, the main region where most tropical systems develop is choked with Saharan dust and wind shear.
No one is complaining. Landfalling hurricanes are incredibly destructive for coastal areas and have the potential for considerable inland rainfall. Even storms at sea, in the Gulf of Mexico, can send energy prices skyrocketing—the last thing needed this year.
This has never happened
Nevertheless, the quietude is historic.
Beginning in 1944, the United States began monitoring the Atlantic basin, which includes the Gulf, Caribbean Sea, and northern Atlantic Ocean, with aircraft to detect hurricanes. Dating back to 1944, a hurricane had formed every year by September 11. The latest “first” Atlantic hurricanes came in 2002, with Gustav, and in 2013, with Humberto on this date.
Atlantic hurricane records officially go back to 1851, although older records are less reliable because observations of storms developing at sea were reliant on reports from shipping vessels. So some storms were missed. If we extend the hurricane record all the way back to 1851, every year still records at least one Atlantic hurricane. But in 1941, the first hurricane did not form until September 17. This is the date of the latest first Atlantic hurricane on record.
I’m here to tell you that the Atlantic will not produce a hurricane by the end of Thursday. The National Hurricane Center is presently monitoring a single disturbance in the Atlantic, but it gives this system a “near zero” percent chance of becoming a tropical depression or storm during the next two days. The likelihood of it ever becoming a hurricane is low.
Officials from the Justice Department and Education Department alleged Wednesday that the University of California’s Berkeley School of Law favors Black applicants over white and Asian applicants, in violation of federal law.
In a letter to attorney Tania Faransso, who is representing the law school, Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said the institution “deliberately discriminated” against Asian and white applicants based on race.
By doing so, Berkeley Law violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bars the use of federal funds to further racial discrimination, Dhillon alleged. The Justice Department is seeking to enter into a resolution agreement with the college to ensure it complies with federal law.
“This discrimination is apparent from the significant disparity in objective academic metrics between racially preferred applicants, and applicants from non-preferred races,” Dhillon wrote, accusing the law school of discriminating by using racial proxies and certain essay prompts in admissions.
This is a sensitive subject for me because when I graduated high school, I was coming from a home below the poverty line. Another student from an East Indian family who lived in the nice neighborhoods north of Montana Blvd., back when East Indians were still considered oppressed minorities, received a full ride scholarship.
When I started working, racial discrimination in hiring was explicit: "Because this position is currently held by an EEO double pointer, it must be filled with same."
In February of last year, authorities confirmed the details of a grave medical accident.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) diagnosed a fatal rabies infection in a patient from Michigan.
The circumstances of transmission were unusual. The deceased man, an organ recipient, had received a donated kidney infected with rabies.
The source of the kidney was a man in Idaho who had died only weeks earlier, donating his organs for others in need. At the time of his death, nobody realized his body was infected with the deadly virus.
Subsequent investigations revealed the Idaho man had recently been scratched by a skunk on his rural property – an infectious encounter that ultimately claimed his own life, and that of the man to whom he gave his kidney.
Records show it was only the fourth time in US history that an organ transplant procedure had transmitted the rabies virus (Lyssavirus rabies) from an initially undiagnosed donor.
But what if these kinds of records are wrong?
A new analysis published in Communications Health suggests that official figures may dramatically underestimate how many human cases of rabies are actually circulating in the US each year.
According to researchers from the Pandemic Sciences Institute at the University of Oxford, the extremely low count of confirmed human rabies cases in the US each year – just 2.4 cases annually on average from 2000 to 2024 – seems much lower than it should be.
The reason why it seems low is that a relatively high number of rabies cases are subsequently confirmed after infected organ transplants, like the sad case of the kidney recipient from Michigan.
And why would you check a donated organ for a rare disease that had nothing apparently to do with donor's death?
An Ontario judge has ruled that “colonialism” was primarily to blame in a deadly driving crash that saw a First Nations man kill a 12-year-old girl.
According to police reports, Darris Wilson’s Dodge Ram pickup truck was strewn with empty and partially consumed cans of beer when, in 2022, it slammed head-on into a vehicle carrying a mother and daughter en route to a sleepover.
Sierra Beverly, 12, was killed at the scene. Her mother, Naomi, suffered debilitating brain injuries for which she still requires 24-hour care.
But in a sentencing decision released last week, Ontario Justice Gethin Edward predominantly focused on how Canada’s “colonial past” had turned Wilson into a dangerous driver.
Wilson, he ruled, was suffering from cultural “disconnection” as a result of colonization, which “crystallized into the tragic events of Feb. 11, 2022.”
Cheers!
Torrance, Cal. (1973)
02/11/1973: Police investigated a missing person report and four theater employees. They were at first unsure if the victims were shot or stabbed to death It turned out that he used a gun to get compliance but used a knife to slit their throats. They could not be identified at first because of the amount of blood on their bodies. The safe was open.
Subsequent investigation into a similar business robbery that only resulted in one murder and the suspect’s suicide in jail led police to surmise that a long-time criminal, 30, with an extensive psychiatric history, which included repeated warnings that he was a murder-in-training. Police arrested him for misdemeanor traffic warrants; he committed suicide in jail. He committed the murders after a detailed casing of the theater. He told his roommate that “if he didn’t come back there was no reason to feel guilty. If everything went right, he would have $2,000 owed to him and his roommate would read about in the newspapers.”
Category: public
Suicide: no
Cause: robbery
Weapon: knife[1]
It's a popular meme in science fiction, dramatized by Arnold Schwartzenegger about the day that Skynet became self-aware. Great movie and scary gloom and doom about computers are going to kill us all.
Now in an Orwellian twist, I see that the tech giants on the forefront of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are asking government to regulate them. That is the most bizarre thig I have ever heard. Huge companies asking government to get involved in their business.
The huge fallacy here is that government is capable of intelligently regulating technology that so few of us understand. My congressman, for example, is incapable of regulating himself. He's an idiot. Come November, he will be out of work, but I don't hold out much hope for his replacement, at least in any technical field. Congress is the last body I want to see regulating AI.
As for these tech giants, are they incapable of regulating themselves? They need Big Brother to keep the genie locked in the bottle?
Lets note the timing. We are less than two months away from the mid-term elections. I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but both the subject matter and timing are suspicious. This whole idea is so bizarre as to beg for conspiracy theories. What is the real play?
Something is afoot and all we are seeing is the smokescreen.
- "However much you think the Iran war is sapping U.S. military readiness, it's probably more than that."
- Mexican cartel crypto mining farm running on stolen electricity.
- The U.S. military's bizarre infatuation with the German way of war.
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On April 18, 2026, a 58-year-old man committed a mass murder in Kyiv, Ukraine, using a legally registered firearm. Two police officers fled the scene. The Minister of the Interior, Ihor Klymenko established an administrative working group to consider the creation of a national law to allow citizens to carry handguns for self-defense. The working group was established on June 11, 2026.
Ihor Klymenko was replaced as Interior Minister on July 16, 2026. Ivan Vyhivskyi is the current Minister of the Interior. It is not clear if the working group has submitted recommendations to the parliament, or if the working group is still working.
On August 9, 2026, an article published in sud.ua describes a petition submitted to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. The petition is No. 41/010504-26ep. The petition outlines reasons for the Ukrainian government to solidify requirements to purchase, possess, and carry handguns in Ukraine. The current system is regulated by acts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The Ministry of Internal Affairs has control of the police forces of Ukraine and the National Guard. In effect licenses to possess or carry handguns have been handed out, very rarely, by officials within the National Police force of Ukraine, pretty much at their discretion. Not many are handed out. Requirements for shall issue permits suggested in the petition are these:
- have reached the age of 21;
- have no unexpunged or outstanding criminal record;
- have no medical contraindications;
- have completed mandatory training on safe handling of weapons;
- have successfully passed theoretical and practical exams;
- have concluded a compulsory civil liability insurance contract for the weapon owner;
- have registered the weapon in the Unified State Register of Weapons and obtained the appropriate permit.
An article in sud.ua, published on August 18, 2026, gives more details about the proposed Ukrainian weapons law. The proposal would create a "shall issue" system of permits to allow veterans to purchase, possess, and carry concealed handguns. The article shows more details from the petition No. 41/010504-26ep, as it applies to veterans. The requirements are a bit different from those listed in the August 9th article.
- State registration of each weapon.
- Identity verification and confirmation of the absence of legal grounds for refusing a permit.
- Medical and psychiatric assessments.
- Confirmation of knowledge regarding safe handling rules.
- Periodic confirmation of the right to possess weapons.
- An absolute prohibition on carrying weapons while under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
- Suspension or cancellation of the permit in legally defined circumstance
The petition makes the point such reforms are becoming popular in other countries in central Europe. It lists the Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Moldava, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. Those countries have instituted forms of shall issue carry permit systems, and have not suffered from increased crime.
It is unclear if the change of Ministers of the Interior of Ukraine means a change in support for a Ukrainian law regulating the ownership and carry of handguns. Since the war, attitudes toward the citizen ownership of weapons have changed. Some polls indicate a majority of citizens now favor a weapons permit system.
The current system has been accused of being riddled with corruption. A Ukrainian publication indicates handguns, sub-machine guns, and assault rifles have been issued as "award pistols". The claim is made such could be had for a price of $30,000. If that sort of money can be made inside the current system, there is certain to be opposition to reform legislation.
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On September 14, 2026, at approximately 4:34 p.m., the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Emergency Communications Center received a 9-1-1 call from a resident in the 3900 block of Walnut Street in Eureka reporting that he had shot a male subject who had forcibly entered his residence. The resident reported the suspect fled the area on foot toward Walnut Drive.
Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to the scene, along with officers from the Eureka Police Department. A male subject matching the description of the suspect was located in the area of W Street and Glatt Street suffering from a gunshot wound.
According to Goose Creek police, someone tried to get inside an apartment, prompting an exchange of gunfire. The person inside the apartment returned fire.
No injuries were reported. Investigators said they found no signs that the suspect was struck by the returned gunfire outside the apartment.
By Lee Williams SAF Investigative Journalism Project When I first started writing about Patrick “Tate” Adamiak’s plight about 21 months ago, I never thought he would be an honored guest at the Second Amendment Foundation’s Gun Rights Policy Conference, or that I would be able to interview him about his undeserved four years behind bars, […]
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In our first 7.62×39 vs. .300 Blackout comparison, we tried to level the playing field as much as possible. Both cartridges were fired from quality SIG Sauer platforms with 16-inch barrels, using similar-weight bullets and the same powder family in our handloads. That first test covered supersonic performance from 0 to 300 yards, and the […]
The post 7.62×39 vs .300 Blackout Subsonic — The Rematch first appeared on Day At The Range.Talking with a friend last week, he told me that our local gun shop, Bulletproof Outfitters, had some old Colt revolvers on consignment. I was intrigued.
I dropped in this morning and asked about Colt revolvers. I found nothing that was suitable fr Cowboy Fast Draw, but they did have some interesting Colt New Frontier revolvers. The New Frontier was introduced in 1961 to compete with the Ruger Blackhawk. Basically, the New Frontier is the old SAA with adjustable sights.
The tag says .44 Mag, but the barrel is plainly marked 44 Spc. It's a nice revolver, but I have mine. Mine is a Lipsey's Blackhawk in .44 Special. We call it the Poor Man's #5, in tribute to Elmer Keiths revolver.
They also had an over priced Ruger #1 in the rack, but I wasn't interested in .308 and didn't feel like dickering.
Suppressors on shotguns aren't common, but they are pretty great. What big can is best? We tested them all to find out!- Watching the Watchmen: A surveillance of Flock cameras in the Bay Area.
- The AI Doomsday Panic is completely out of control.
- The humans who read your ChatGPT sessions.
Brother in Law came over yesterday to eat lunch. He shard a photo from his trail camera. He has a small deer lease near Trout, LA and like many of us, has trail cameras set out to watch wildlife. Trail cam resolution is what it is and he had a photo on it that needs opinions.
Some sort of cat. Larger than your garden variety tabby, but bigger than the bobcats we normally see in the area. Maybe a small panther. I took the photo and ran it through the computer. Came up with this image.
I'm voting bobcat, based on the stripes we see on the cats leg. I don't think it is a panther. But I could be wrong. However, based on what I know about local bobcat, that is a big-ass bobcat.
Wha say ye?
A West Easton man is accused of fatally shooting his mother’s boyfriend after intervening while the boyfriend was attacking her at their borough home.
Ryan James Yaindl, 26, of the 100 block of Spring Street, is charged with felony criminal homicide. Yaindl was arraigned Saturday before District Judge Robert Christian Weber, who denied bail.
This Week in History: On September 15, 1600, the Battle of Sekigahara, (Sekigahara Kassen Byōbu『関ヶ原合戦屏風』) marked the rise of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan. — September 15, 1774: Cossack pretender to the Russian throne Yemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev was captured. — On September 16, 1620 the Mayflower departed Plymouth, England, with 102 Pilgrims and about 30 crew for the New World. — September 17,1776: The fortress Presidio of San Francisco was founded in New Spain to gain a foothold in Alta California and secure the San Francisco Bay for Spain. — And on September 18, 1851, the first edition of The …
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We finally did it. We crossed 40 trillion dollars ($40,000,000,000,000) in national public debt on August 18, 2026. Congratulations to all the people who said we could get there if our politicians were just a little more irresponsible, foolish, short-sighted, careless, feckless, and every other way to describe our national march toward the cliff. We did it at even a faster pace than anticipated. Now, we can get to 80 trillion even faster. Forward, March over the Cliff into the Economic Collapse, Fellow Americans! As you are reading this, the United States has already crossed a critical milestone: The United …
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The Mingo Ultimate Firewood Marker enables someone who is processing firewood to buck logs into rounds of remarkably uniform length. It does this by placing a spot of inverting marking spray at precise intervals onto a log that is being prepared for bucking. This precision is especially helpful for those who heat with smaller wood stoves. The fireboxes of smaller stoves have less margin for error than the fireboxes of larger stoves. A piece of cordwood even one inch too long can make it impossible to shut the door on the firebox of a smaller stove. Variations of the Marker …
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Today’s graphic is a map that shows relatively what US states would look like at New Jersey’s population density. (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 …
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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. This week: A map showing Vacation Homes in the Contiguous United States. (Graphic courtesy of Reddit.) The thumbnail below is click-expandable. Economics & Investing Links of Interest The next financial crash: a scenario AI debt could spark a chain reaction. Copper Hits All-Time-High As Physical Economy Reprices Scarcity. The recent increases in copper and nickel have brought the melt value of a current U.S. 5-cent piece nickel (still composed of 75% copper and 25% nickel) …
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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, the horrendous driver’s license data breach. Data Breach Compromised 150 Million Driver’s Licenses TechCrunch reports: ID verification giant IDScan confirms data breach with more than 150 million driver’s …
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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. — Space Force picks Texas as US home for trinational DARC space radar network. (The photo above shows a DARC reflector being assembled in Australia. DARC is a US/UK/Australia trilateral partnership. Photo by Mike Kortum of Four Sea Group Inc., courtesy of U.S. Space Force.) o o o Tom Knighton, at Bearing Arms: …
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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. REDOUBT NEWS LINKS Yet another great Gravity Knight flying video, with some awesome scenery: Landing at Flying B Ranch Idaho – Badlands Traveler. Now, that is a truly remote ranch — with micro-hydro power! Oh, and at the four-minute mark, take note of the Quest Kodiak STOL plane parked along the river side of the grass strip. Those are manufactured in Sandpoint, Idaho. And the classic trail-dragger seen …
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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: Taxation is Theft Even When Thieves Wear Stinking Badges 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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“When I speak of home, I speak of the place where—in default of a better—those I love are gathered together; and if that place were a gypsy’s tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.” – Charles Dickens
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Today I got the Pedersoli Mississippi Rifle back to the range and tried a few different loads. All groups were 5 shots, fired at 50 yards from a bench rest, using 70 grains of Goex FFg black powder.
I first tried pre-patched .526 ball with tied-on .010 patches lubed with October Country's Bumbling Bear Grease. These were intended to copy the balls loaded in cartridges for the US Army back in the 19th Century.
I loaded these with the "tail" facing up. Even though I used a thinner patch than during my first range trip, I needed to use my short starter.
Unfortunately they didn't work for me. While easy to load for up to 5 shots, accuracy was terrible. Based on the target it looked like at least one impacted the target with the patch still wrapped around the ball, but with the "tail" off-center.
The bullseye is 5.5" in diameter.
I recovered one of these patches, about 25 - 30 yards downrange, which is much further that untied patches travel.
I may try pre-patched balls again but use thread instead of hemp twine, to increase the chance the patches separate from the balls.
My second target was .526 balls in a .010 patch but seated normally. Accuracy was better although not great.
My final target was .520 balls in .018 patch. These seated very easily but still required the short starter, and the accuracy was on par with .526 + .010 combination.
For my last 2 shots of the day I loaded .520 balls in .018 patches and shot them offhand at an ~18" steel gong, both of which were hits.
Load development will continue.
Kerrville, Tex. (1973)
02/06/1973: Wife returned from work to find her husband, a justice of the peace shot to death. When police went to inform his son, they found the son and daughter-in-law also shot to death. Police were reluctant to suggest a motive, but another local justice of the peace described this as a “grudge killing.”
Category: family non-resident
Suicide: no
Cause: unknown
Weapon: firearm[1]
[1] "Triple Murder In Texas Kills Judge, Couple," [Eau Claire, Wisc] Leader-Telegram, Feb. 06, 1973, 7.
I could find no other coverage about this obscure rural justice of the peace or his murder. A rather complex novel is waiting to be written about these three lives ended prematurely. Mafia? Philandering judge? Inherited oil well stolen in legal proceedings? It could be anything. There is a saying from Judaic thought that:
Therefore the man was created singly, to teach that he who destroys one soul of a human being, the Scripture considers him as if he should destroy a whole world, and him who saves one soul of Israel, the Scripture considers him as if he should save a whole world.
Trace back all the lives touched by this J.P., his son, daughter-in-law and their orphaned daughters. There is a universe of human living, suffering, joy, and meaning there.
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Ubiquitous Flock cameras have provoked outrage on both sides of the American political spectrum, as witness the following: The Intercept News from the States AP News DeFlock Enough from me: what’s you readers’ take on the Flock camera issue?Quote of the Day The principle that heat spontaneously flows from higher temperatures to lower temperatures is a cornerstone of classical thermodynamics. While this principle holds true for macroscopic systems at equilibrium, here we show that, when a quantum system … Continue reading →
Continue reading →Something weird with Orcas started around 6 years ago in the Straight of Gibraltar: Orca pods started ramming sailing boats. Hundreds of boats have been attacked, so many that there is a Wikipedia page about the situation.
Well it seems that yachtsmen have started returning fire:
I dunno - a pellet gun is maybe not my first choice. But since this is Europe, it may be the best option they have.
Investigators said the 39-year-old went to the residence to confront another man about an alleged debt. Police said the resident, a 47-year-old Kerrville man, met him at the door, and the 39-year-old is accused of brandishing a knife during the confrontation. Police said the resident shot him.
Police said the resident is cooperating with detectives and has been interviewed. Based on preliminary information, detectives believe the resident acted in self-defense, police said.
Cheers!
But after spending a couple late summer days on a range in the bottomlands near the Wabash where the swampass is so bad you’ve nearly got beads of sweat trickling down your ass crack, I’m a believer.