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Yesterday I loaded up 250 rounds of .38 Special. I used up the final 150 Speer 158 grain LSWCs I got when my brother and I split my dad's reloading components last year. These were loaded over 3.5 grains of Titegroup with Aguila No.1-1/2 small pistol primers. I've chronographed that load in the past and from a 4" .38 Special revolver it goes about 775 - 780 FPS, which is comparable to what factory 158 grain lead loads do.
I also had my first dud primer in quite some time today. It was one of the Aguilas. I hit it two or three times in a S&W Model 10-8 and then once more for good measure in a Pietta Pistolero (Colt SAA replica). No dice, so I'll put down that round and punch out the dud primer.
Aside from the Titegroup loads, I also put together 100 rounds with a Lee TL358-158SWC cast bullet over 4.7 grains of Unique, with Servicios Aventuras primers.
Results:
That's a large standard deviation and extreme spread, but not unusual with Unique. It's positionally dependent in the case which can lead to large spreads. That said, it shot well, albeit with a lot of smoke. The combination of the Lee Liquid Alox bullet lubricant and Unique powder makes for a very smokey smokeless load.
I don't have the ability to measure chamber pressure but the performance is definitely in the +P category. IMO, this would make a good woods load for Pennsylvania, and with proper shot placement would likely do well if defending yourself against a criminal. Even though the Lee SWC is not a hollowpoint it's got a very wide meplat and will penetrate well.
Judges and prosecutors aren’t immune to being held accountable — if sanity is ever restored to this country.
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Hunting season? The .22 for squirrels, the shotgun for birds, the serious rifle for deer or bigger. For those of us who carry guns, the weather dictates what we wear that covers, well, what we wear. Since July or so I’ve been mostly carrying a Glock 19, a 15+1 capacity 9mm semiautomatic. It’s actually much […]Guns for Me but Not for Thee: Sen. Warnock Spent $360,000 on Private Security in 9 Months [More] I say judge him by the content of his character. Not that anyone stupid and prejudiced enough to vote for him care. [Via bondmen]
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A November 3rd fight in the parking lot of the Backwoods Icehouse in Guadalupe County has led to criminal charges for several individuals, including current and former law enforcement officers. [More] “The first rule of Only Ones Club…” [Via bondmen]
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Let’s see if we can find out more. [Via bondmen]
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It’s not a surprise that Washington state, Oregon, and California are all in the top ten rankings for total crime. Most of their major cities are in chaos. [More] Forgetting something…? [Via bondmen]
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Well, it very likely arrived some time ago but now it's confirmed:
In mid-September 2025, we detected suspicious activity that later investigation determined to be a highly sophisticated espionage campaign. The attackers used AI’s “agentic” capabilities to an unprecedented degree—using AI not just as an advisor, but to execute the cyberattacks themselves.
The threat actor—whom we assess with high confidence was a Chinese state-sponsored group—manipulated our Claude Code tool into attempting infiltration into roughly thirty global targets and succeeded in a small number of cases. The operation targeted large tech companies, financial institutions, chemical manufacturing companies, and government agencies. We believe this is the first documented case of a large-scale cyberattack executed without substantial human intervention.
This is very interesting, and is very bad news. This is one heck of a tool:
In Phase 1, the human operators chose the relevant targets (for example, the company or government agency to be infiltrated). They then developed an attack framework—a system built to autonomously compromise a chosen target with little human involvement.
Essentially, this is the cyberpunk version of "fire and forget" weaponry. The only thing that would be more ironic is if they had a Clippy front end ...
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Trump Redirecting BSCA Grant Money Away From ‘Gun Violence’ NGOs to Fund Deportation of Illegals [More] And two steps back… [Via Michael G]
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Hawaii: 60% of violent crime goes un-solved [More] Don’t book ’em, Danno!
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An attorney representing a California man who is challenging the state’s ban on firearm silencers argued to a panel of judges in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that the devices are protected under the Second Amendment. [More] Shoot, anyone who’s not a moron or a monster knows that.
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‘Slender Man’ stabber Morgan Geyser escapes group home, cuts off ankle monitor – 11 years after horrifying attack [More] Knowing she can’t be trusted with a knife, what kind of incompetent custodial care allowed her access to cutting tools? [Via Michael G]
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Japan suffered deadliest month of bear attacks in history, with 7 deaths and 88 maulings in October [More] Then again, it’s always been that way for Nihonjin… And before anybody starts in on guns and crime, there’s not only a fundamental demographic difference, but violent crime among the millions of peaceable members of U.S. gun … Continue reading "Land of the Writhing Son"
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The Derek Chauvin case just took a seismic turn. A 71-page post-conviction filing reveals false testimony, withheld evidence, and expert manipulation that the jury never saw. What’s in this document is stunning. [More] Shoot, I could’a told ’em knee-to-neck is a “time-honored” Only One tactic: Here’s ATF applying it in 2006 in a situation so … Continue reading "The Truth Will Out"
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All this and snitch on someone who may be hiding? 7-Eleven clerk fired after shooting attacker [More] Oh, thank Heaven? Hey, no skin off their nose. [Via Michael G]
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So Now Brady Has a Problem With Us Having ‘Less Lethal’ Weapons? [More] They would literally rather see you dead. And their biggest supporters are those least capable of defending themselves, further corroborating that “liberal” women are idiots. [Via Michael G]
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2 men charged with break-in at firearms training school in Holliston [More] A cursory risk/benefit trade-off analysis says the haul wasn’t worth the price. But as dumb as they are, their accomplice still has the rifles, although his life can’t be very good at the moment. He’s gotta know his “friends” have already given him … Continue reading "Today’s Low-Hanging Fruit Report"
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I’m not going to link to the @$$#)!e because no sense feeding trolls, which is what he is, by rewarding him with attention and clicks, plus the responses are exactly what you’d expect. I did go to his main page and found he’s a damn Afghan refugee rescued from that $#!+hole and brought here at … Continue reading "Commie Sense"
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While the man who was killed has not been identified, the homeowner is sending a message to the family now grieving their loved one. “I apologize. Taking a life was never my goal. I wasn’t trying to kill him. I was just trying to save myself,” he said. [More] Way to give police and prosecutors … Continue reading "Gură Mare"
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So DOJ is just following orders? Precedent says that’s no excuse: In the case of the US v. Josef Altstötter, et al., an American military tribunal tried members of the Reich Ministry of Justice as well as jurists and prosecutors of the People’s Court [Volksgericht] and Special Court [Sondergericht]. As for voting to change the … Continue reading "‘Just Following Orders’"
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Update to “Bear Minimums“: “Teachers successfully repelled the bear using pepper spray and a bear banger.”… Tamara Davidson, British Columbia’s minister of environment and parks, called the teachers who fought off the bear “true heroes,” adding that they were well-prepared…” [More] Do government flacks know how to do anything but gaslight to keep the obvious from … Continue reading "Bear Maximum"
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According to the preliminary investigation, four suspects arrived in the area and attempted to enter the home by force. However, the homeowner, who was inside his residence at the time, shot towards the suspects, striking one of them in the upper extremities. The other three suspects fled the scene in an unknown direction.
Ring camera video obtained by CBS News Miami captured the moments shots rang out in the neighborhood.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue responded to the scene and took the injured suspect to a nearby hospital in critical condition, where he died, MDSO said.
The 911 caller said they had been attacked inside their home by a known acquaintance armed with a gun.
The suspect allegedly hit the victim with the gun during the attack and the victim defended themselves by firing a gun at the suspect.
Police say the 17-year-old suspect sustained two gunshot wounds as a result.
The teen was taken to an area hospital by ambulance and was later transferred to an out-of-state hospital. They said the teen was reportedly in stable condition.
Police say the victim had minor injuries that did not require medical attention.
They also arrested a second juvenile suspect for charges related to the attack that started the incident. That juvenile has been charged with armed robbery, unlawful use of a weapon, mob action and battery.
November 24, 1434: The River Thames in London froze over. Later, “Frosts” were celebrated with drunken faires. — November 24th marks the day that John Knox died, in 1572. (He was born in 1514.) AtheistAgendaPedia says: “Born near Haddington Scotland. He was influenced by George Wishart, who was burned for heresy in 1546, and the following year Knox became the spokesman for the Reformation in Scotland. After imprisonment and exile in England and the European continent, in 1559 he returned to Scotland, where he supervised the preparation of the constitution and liturgy of the Reformed Church.” — Today’s feature piece …
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A Cautionary Tale “If something seems too good to be true, then it probably is.” (Modern Proverbial Warning, circa late 20th century). “For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” (Alexander Pope, circa 1711). One day, when the battery was running low in my scam detector and my gullibility meter was running high, I ordered a new “Benchmade Knives Barrage 583SBK limited edition white” on eBay. The knife eventually proved itself to be a counterfeit. In fact, after examining the postings for other “Benchmade” knives offered for sale on eBay, I have come to the conclusion that most of …
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The following simple recipe for Cuban Eggs is from The New Butterick Cook Book, copyright 1924, now in the public domain. That is just one of the dozens of bonus books included in the 2005-2025 20th Anniversary Edition of the waterproof SurvivalBlog Archive USB stick that will be available to order in January of 2026. Ingredients 6 eggs 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup sausage meat Pepper 1 teaspoon chopped onion Directions Cook the meat and onion together for five minutes. Beat the eggs until light, add the seasonings. Pour into the pan with the meat. Cook slowlv, stirring constantly, until the …
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Today’s graphic: 50 States With Equal-Population. (Graphic courtesy of Reddit.) JWR’s Comment: This certainly illustrates the low population density of The American Redoubt. 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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“It’s not an endlessly expanding list of rights – the ‘right’ to education, the ‘right’ to health care, the ‘right’ to food and housing. That’s not freedom, that’s dependency. Those aren’t rights, those are the rations of slavery – hay and a barn for human cattle.” – P. J. O’Rourke
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Blessed Miguel Pro's final request was to be allowed to pray to his heavenly Father.
After which he refused a blindfold and faced the firing squad bravely, proclaiming ¡Viva Cristo Rey!
This week is Thanksgiving* and so calls for what is perhaps the most American of all classical music, Aaron Copeland's Appalachian Spring. Most of the composers we see here on Sunday Classical were child prodigies, going to the Paris Conservatoire before they were 12 years old or such. Not so with Copeland, who was a distinctly American self-made-man story.
His family wasn't musical, and when he was young you would have thought that his older brother was the only musical talent in the family. He got his first piano lessons from his older sister, who he was very close to - but that only took him so far. And so he signed up for a Music Correspondence Course and got lucky. His teacher was a no-nonsense German who schooled him in Romantic era composers. As he said later in life, "This was a stroke of luck for me. I was spared the floundering that so many musicians have suffered through incompetent teaching."
What stuck ended up making him hugely popular with general audiences in the USA. His Fanfare For The Common Man is perhaps his most recognizable work. Artistically, you can compare this with Norman Rockwell's famous Freedom Of Speech painting:
Artistically, you can pair Appalachian Spring with Rockwell's Freedom From Want painting. You cannot find a more iconic portrait of Thanksgiving than this:
Of course the "Serious" Art Establishment hated both Rockwell and Copeland. Audiences didn't care, since both artists captured the essence of America itself. And so spend some time with this music which is accompanied with a lovely series of photographs of the Appalachian Mountains. They too, capture the essence of America itself.
*Offer void in Canada.
Investigators said three suspected burglars allegedly tried to force their way into an apartment when someone inside allegedly started shooting. Two of the suspects were killed, and the third ran to an SUV and fled the scene.
Police are still searching for him. Inside the apartment, officers said they found a large amount of marijuana and several guns. The alleged shooter has been cooperating with investigators.
He’s allegedly the man responsible for shooting and killing a man inside his home on Belle Wood Drive West shortly after midnight.
He said a neighbor ambushed him, forcing him to defend himself.
“I would never kill a person,” homeowner Mike Downey said. “But he was trying to kill me.”
Mobile police found a man dead in Downey’s home. He explained to News 5 what happened between him and his neighbor.
“The gentleman that lived in that house right there came over here, and he was very inebriated,” Downey said. “And, threatened to kill me and my whole family. And so I pushed him. He fell down. And he tried to pull out, I got bows and arrows, and he tried to pull out an arrow to stab me with it, unsuccessfully. So he reached for his pocket knife. And I shot him.”
On November 23rd, 1644, John Milton published his “Areopagitica” pamphlet that decryed censorship. — November 23, 1869: The Clipper Ship Cutty Sark was launched in Dumbarton, Scotland, as one of the last clippers ever built. It is the only one still surviving. — On November 23rd, 1980, a 7.2-magnitude quake struck southern Italy killing more than 3,000 people. — Today’s feature piece is by JWR. — We still need some entries for Round 121 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. More than $970,000 worth of prizes have been awarded since we started running this contest. Round 121 ends on November …
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JWR’s Introductory Note: The following is an update and expansion to an early post that I made in SurvivalBlog back in December, 2005. It is part of a series of SurvivalBlog 20th Anniversary update re-posts, in recognition of the fact that the majority of readers did not join us until recent years. — I often have SurvivalBlog readers and consulting clients ask me about the “ideal” terrain for a rural survival retreat house. I must report that there is no single “best” answer because there are significant trade-offs related to terrain. Castles were situated on hilltops for centuries, for obvious …
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The latest meme created by JWR: Meme Text: The Genius Move: Glock Loses Millions To Create The V Series, To Stop “Switches” Only To Be Outsmarted Just A Month Later By Rednecks With Dremel Tools News Link: Glock’s New V-Series Just Hit a Major Problem: Reports of New “Switch” Compatibility Surface. 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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“And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more. Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. 2For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God. Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous …
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Why was my rectangle not completely square? I do not mean in the corners where a round emdmill necessarily guarantees the corner will be limited by the diameter of the endmill. Then I watched the endmill cutting circles. It was definitely bending.
This is a Kodiak 1/8" diameter, 3" long endmill, made in USA. This is a tradeoff issue. The extra length means deeper reach, but also it can bend a little. This also makes it less likely to break when overloaded. I am now using my Taiwanese Speed Tiger end mills which are 1" long. They seem to flex less. Again, this is a question that requires a level of knowledge by the machinist that I just starting to reach. Do you need the deeper reach? If so, slower feed rates to reduce flex, or a shorter endmill.
The flex doubtless increases vibration, making the endmill holder set screws less effective. I need to put a flat on the SpeedTiger endmill shank too.
My brother has a set of pin gauges to today I measured the cylinder throats on my .32-20 S&W M-1905, 4th Change Military & Police. I hypothesized that if they were too large it would be the cause of the low velocities I'm seeing with it.
Nope, every one of them measured 0.313". Combined with the barrel/cylinder gap of 0.003" to 0.008" it's in spec. The only thing I can think of is the barrel. Some barrels are just slower than others.
To be fair, this gun is for informal plinking and target shooting for me, since centerfire rifles and handguns aren't legal for small game in PA, and I have much better choices for self defense, so the low velocities don't really matter.
I was about to use my bench grinder to put a flat in my 1/8" carbide endmill when the grinder shorted out in a most spectacular way: sparks from the switch. I'm glad I was not close. Rather than buy a new bench grinder, I decided to buy one of these:
LINE10 Tools 1/2-Inch Drill Arbor Adapter for Buffing and Grinding Wheels.
I was able to mount my buffing wheel and grinding wheel (both of which I removed from the grinder before burial at toter), in my drill press. They work perfectly here and I have one less tool consuming desktop space.
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The stickers started with a couple from the Outer Banks and grew when we took our first long trip. Not every park or destination, but if I see one I like, it gets added.
We were at Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Our trip kept crossing paths with Teddy, Custer, and Lewis & Clark as will be evident in upcoming posts. We weren't going to camp, so we stopped in the visitor's center, and planned a ride into the park to see the bison. There were lots of them, and we took our pictures out of the truck windows.
The visitor's center had a lot of souvenirs. T-shirts, hoodies, hats, post cards, books and stickers.
Wife - "Look, honey, I like this sticker."
Husband - "You are not going to start putting g** d*** stickers on our camper."
Okay, then. I managed not to laugh out loud. Made my purchases and went back to the truck. I was cleaning the dust off a spot and placing the sticker when the couple went by.
They were parked behind us in a beautiful class A rig. The sunlight glinted off the chrome. The paint glowed under the wax. Sort of like this, only nicer.
I should have walked back and told the guy that I understood.
Sex trafficking on Meta platforms was both difficult to report and widely tolerated, according to a court filing unsealed Friday. In a plaintiffs’ brief filed as part of a major lawsuit against four social media companies, Instagram’s former head of safety and well-being Vaishnavi Jayakumar testified that when she joined Meta in 2020 she was shocked to learn that the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that reportedly engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”
“You could incur 16 violations for prostitution and sexual solicitation, and upon the 17th violation, your account would be suspended,” Jayakumar reportedly testified, adding that “by any measure across the industry, [it was] a very, very high strike threshold.” The plaintiffs claim that this testimony is corroborated by internal company documentation.
The brief, filed by plaintiffs in the Northern District of California, alleges that Meta was aware of serious harms on its platform and engaged in a broad pattern of deceit to downplay risks to young users. According to the brief, Meta was aware that millions of adult strangers were contacting minors on its sites; that its products exacerbated mental health issues in teens; and that content related to eating disorders, suicide, and child sexual abuse was frequently detected, yet rarely removed. According to the brief, the company failed to disclose these harms to the public or to Congress, and refused to implement safety fixes that could have protected young users.
I hear a lot of leftist whining about how greed drives so much. It does. So that is why Meta backed Biden. It is not like Zuckerberg is going to be out on the street, begging for clicks and food.
I am supervising the mill. While watching it cut pieces, I am sitting in front of a PC anyway. The replacement of the slow WiFi adapter with a fast one makes blogging possible.
When Professor Loeb started talking about 3I/ATLAS as an interstellar spacecraft, it was an interesting, but implausible idea. But he is sticking with this idea in absurd ways. 11/21/25 Medium:
Today a new image of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS was taken by M. Jäger, G. Rhemann, and E. Prosperi and reported here. The image stacks 20 exposures of 100 seconds each, observed at 4:15 UTC on November 20, 2025. The displayed field has dimensions of 16.7 arcminutes on a side, equivalent to 1.6 million kilometers at the 3I/ATLAS distance of 326 million kilometers from Earth. The image shows two narrow jets directed opposite to each other and oriented vertically from the 3I/ATLAS-Sun axis. Together with the tail and anti-tail along this axis, the sideways lines constitute an X-shaped pattern. They extend out to a distance of about a million kilometers from 3I/ATLAS.
The simplest interpretation is that these lines are the streak of an Earth-based communication satellite which coincidentally intersected 3I/ATLAS in projection in the sky for a few seconds. There is another line near the bottom of the image, also likely to be a satellite streak....If not a satellite streak, these straight and narrow sideways-jets is that they are lines highlighting the trail of gas or dust associated with the linear path of small mini-objects that departed from 3I/ATLAS. If the mini-objects started their journey near perihelion — at closest approach of 3I/ATLAS to the Sun on October 29, 2025, they traversed a distance of a million kilometers in 22 days. This corresponds to a speed of 500 meters per second relative to 3I/ATLAS.
The mini-objects could either be pieces of ice that broke apart from the surface of a natural comet nucleus or small probes that were released from a technological mothership. By monitoring these components in the coming weeks, we should be able to distinguish the two interpretations.
Occam's Razor. Of course, if we see this:
Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of Earth’s mantle and ejecting a huge debris disk that later formed the moon. Scientists have long wondered what Theia was made of and where it came from. Now they have evidence that it formed very close to home.
The original giant impact model of the moon’s creation, proposed in the 1970s, predicted the moon was made mostly of Theia’s material. This scenario implied there should be differences in the chemical composition of the moon and Earth, but research has found that the two are nearly identical—far more similar than two independent planetary bodies should be. A new study, published today in Science, took a close look at other things Theia gave us beside the moon: additional molybdenum and iron left behind in the collision.
Ancient Earth would have had these heavy elements accumulate in its core but not in the rocky mantle closer to the surface, so any iron present now in Earth’s mantle likely came from Theia and can tell us about that planet’s composition, says study co-author Thorsten Kleine, director of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen, Germany.
That is the teaser for a serious article from a publication largely taken over by the left since I stopped subscribing about 1981. The fun aspect is how the 11/20/25 New York Times covered this with a title that mocks the "9/11 Was An Inside Job" bumper stickers popular with the Alex Jones fans:
The Moon Was an Inside Job
New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon, came from closer to the sun.
For nine months in 2022, moss lived in space.
It wasn’t in a lab aboard the International Space Station, like other gardening experiments conducted in orbit — rather, the moss was attached to the station’s exterior, fully exposed to the harsh environment of the cosmos.
The purpose of the space moss test, reported in a study published Thursday in the journal iScience, was to see if moss — an early land plant capable of thriving in some of the most extreme environments on Earth — could survive long-term exposure to the vacuum of space.
Surprisingly, the researchers found that the moss spores not only endured, they “retained their vitality” and were still capable of reproducing when they eventually returned to Earth.
“Most living organisms, including humans, cannot survive even briefly in the vacuum of space,” Tomomichi Fujita, the study’s lead author and a professor in the department of biological sciences at Hokkaido University in Japan, said in a statement.
If you read Crichton's phenomenal novel (in my case, at one sitting; was I wreck for high school the next morning) you will recall that Project Scoop, which brought the nasty organism to Earth was a space survivor of early Earth organisms. The idea of anything surviving the extraordinary conditions of space (vacuum, no water, radiation, heat, and cold, is like implausible science fiction.
n 1947, the United Nations General Assembly committed the UN’s original sin when it partitioned Palestine to create Israel. This launched the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of the Indigenous people, and the establishment of a settler colonial state.
Now, 78 years later, the UN Security Council has committed the UN’s second cardinal sin. It enshrined Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian lands, put its imprimatur on Israel’s genocide, and granted colonial control over the lives of the Palestinians to the United States, which has aided and abetted the genocide.
Another bunch of idiots who do not know what genocide means.
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
- Killing members of the group;
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
- Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
- Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
- Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
The IDF's actions are not targetting Palestinians, Arabs, or even Gazans. They are targetting military forces of a group that has engaged in acts of war (and not even lawful forms of war) against Israel. Arabs in Israel are in no danger of disappearing, or elsewhere, hence the willingness of Arab nations to go along with this treaty.
WhatsApp messages have revealed how a prominent MEP for Nigel Farage's Brexit Party took bribes as part of a pro-Russian influence campaign in the European Parliament.
Nathan Gill, who went on to become leader of Reform UK in Wales, has been jailed after admitting taking money from an alleged "pawn" of the main security agency in Vladimir Putin's Russia.
Gill was paid thousands of pounds to give TV interviews in favour of a key Putin ally and to make speeches in the European Parliament between December 2018 and July 2019.
The 52-year-old father-of-seven had pleaded guilty to eight counts of bribery and was sentenced to 10 and a half years at the Old Bailey on Friday.
Prosecutors found WhatsApp chats between Gill and a Ukrainian called Oleg Voloshyn, a former member of the Ukraine Parliament for a pro-Russian party.
Gill, an MEP for six years, was also paid to host Putin's most trusted associate in Ukrainian politics at the parliament in Strasbourg.
The problem with foreign influence on our elections far precedes the recently exposed proxy funding of Obama's election. 6/23/2000 New York Times:
Mr. Gore then replied, "Well, that's right. That is more accurate. Let me, let me amend that. That was first time it was alleged to be, to have been a fund-raiser."
The Hsi Lai event, which was held on April 29, 1996 in Hacienda Heights, Calif., was one of the most embarrassing episodes of the 1996 campaign finance scandal. The event was organized by Maria Hsia, a longtime political ally of the vice president who had collected money before the event from monks and nuns, some of whom had taken vows of poverty.
As a tax-exempt religious institution, the temple was not allowed to serve as a venue for political fund-raising or to make political donations itself. Mr. Gore was asked repeatedly in late 1996 and 1997 about whether he knew the event was a fund-raiser, and according to Mr. Conrad responded with differing statements.
Ms. Hsia was convicted in March for hiding $109,000 in illegal contributions and making false statements to federal regulators about the temple luncheon. She is awaiting sentencing.
More from the far left 2/19/01 American Prospect:
The Buddhist temple. In April 1996, Gore attended a fundraising luncheon at the Hsi Lai Buddhist temple in Hacienda Heights, California. This event, which was organized by Maria Hsia and John Huang, raised $166,750 for the Democratic National Committee (DNC). Much of this money was raised illegally; the laws broken were far from being trivial or outdated. There were $55,000 in contributions laundered through monks and nuns, who made the contributions in their own names and were then reimbursed by the temple from its general funds. At least three of the contributors were foreign nationals. In addition the temple, which enjoys tax-exempt status as a religious institution, was used illegally for partisan politics. Insofar as the monks were reimbursed with temple funds that came from tax-free donations, American taxpayers indirectly subsidized Gore’s fundraising effort.
An Indonesian businessman has agreed to plead guilty to making illegal campaign contributions to US President Bill Clinton, US officials said.I sometimes wonder how much of Tucker Carlson's Hitler whitewashing is his pursuit of clicks vs. foreign funding.
The US Justice Department said that billionaire James Riady had agreed to pay an $8.6m fine for contributing foreign funds - the largest fine ever levied in a campaign finance case.
Mr Riady pledged $1m in 1992 to back Mr Clinton, then Arkansas governor.
Foreign campaign contributions are illegal under American law.
The businessman has agreed to surrender and was scheduled to appear before a judge in Los Angeles on Tuesday, despite Indonesia having no extradition treaty with the US.
After the technical-type questions, for which I did O (why yes, I CAN give a discourse on retrating blade stall and fully articulating rotor systems), came the deal-breaker: "Describe your organizational skills."
I thought of all those university classes, I thought of Peter Drucker's books and multi-attribute utility diagrams; I thought of getting a big box of an airplane across a big desert with steam gauges and sweat. One never forgets those flights, suspended in space, hanging from a point between mobility and absolute motion, thinking there is no better job as you chase the wind, knowing it's too good to last. I thought of budgets and acquisitions and purchase orders, and how none of them do you any good when you're looking down at 200 miles of open water, the EICAS panel lit up like a Christmas tree, and everyone is looking at you to make a decision before the other one flames out.
All those things I thought, but what came out of my mouth without pausing for breath was "I once cooked Thanksgiving dinner for 23 pilots, including real mashed potatoes and pie without a microwave, and everything was hot on the table at the same time.
"Oh, Crap, did I just SAY that?" I thought as I felt a breeze on my cheek, the axe falling, most likely. What's next, a conversation about dishware and shoes?
But I got the position. A couple of days later, I was riding herd on several hundred people. I hoped they didn't all expect pie.
So, for tonight, a little lesson on creativity and timing. Sometimes it all comes together, sometimes it's "Hello Aurelio's?" There are a million cookbooks out there, but some of the best meals are when you just get creative with what's in the kitchen. Sure, there is the occasional disaster (duck wings and chicken wings do NOT cook for the same amount of time unless you have a craving for rubber bands, and you too can make fresh-caught fish taste JUST like elastic by ignoring the instructions). But, after taking some instruction from cookbooks and with practice, most folks can learn to craft such a meal without resorting to a sodium-drenched frozen something that costs three times as much as making it yourself.
It started with a pack of two turkey tenderloins I got as a (buy one - get one free) for $10, some fresh veggies, and some dry goods.
It ended up as this.
Turkey Tenderloin in White Wine Reduction with Garlic and Mushrooms served on Onion/Sage stuffing with Walnut Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Pear Cinnamon Balsamic glaze.
No recipe, no rules, and two big thumbs up.
Start with the tenderloin(s). Marinate in a dab of olive oil and a little lemon juice, then rub with garlic and roast until not quite done (about 10 minutes less than the package directions, still pink in the middle). While that cooks, chop a couple of large sweet potatoes into two-inch chunks, toss with a little walnut oil, and place in a cooking pan. While you're in chopping mode, chop 1 1/2 onions (the half onion into small pieces and the whole one into larger chunks) and chop 2-3 stalks of celery. Throw the whole onion, cut into larger pieces, with the potatoes. I have these nifty Ceramic knives that Old NFO gave me many years back that make it easy. Preheat oven to the temperature on the tenderloin package.
Get out a box of Stove Top stuffing (normally I make my own, but I got this for a buck on clearance), put water and butter per directions in a pan with 1/2 teaspoon of sage, and set on a cold burner.
Sauté the celery and the half onion bits in a pan with a little EVOO until the celery is JUST starting to get limp and the onion is starting to caramelize. Toss the celery and onion mixture into the stuffing water, then put the pan back on a cold burner.
Turn the heat on the water for the stuffing to a warm setting (you want it to heat, not simmer). In the same pan you sauteed the onions and celery, saute some sliced mushrooms and a child-sized handful of fresh basil. When the mushrooms are starting to soften, drain off any liquid and add 3/4 cup of white wine (the alcohol will cook off, but you can substitute apple juice), and a splash of lemon juice. Stir until the liquid begins to cook down slightly. Place turkey slices on top and let it finish cooking, stirring occasionally to let the wine reduction cook down, adding 2-3 tablespoons of butter at the end to thicken. Leave the pan on low, stirring occasionally, while the potatoes finish.
When the timer goes off for the potatoes (or when they start to get soft), drizzle 1/4 cup Cinnamon Pear Balsamic Vinegar over the top (available from Saratoga Olive Oil Company online). Stir and return to the oven for 10 minutes, or until the center is soft when poked with a fork.
Raise the heat under the veggie-infused stuffing water to boiling, then add the stuffing mix. Stir, cover, and remove from heat.
When potatoes are done, everything is done. Serve turkey over stuffing with sweet potatoes. Drizzle any extra juice from the glazed potatoes over the turkey and stuffing.
It might not be dinner for 23. It may just be dinner with your best friends of the two and four-legged variety; time to laugh, time to shed the worries of the week, watching them all fly away as toasts are made and thanks is given.
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The big political argument this week is rather specious. A bunch of well-meaning Democrats came out with a video that reminds enlisted members of our military that they are not required to obey unlawful orders. That is true, as the oath of enlistment spells out.
“I, ____________________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice”.
Patriots were outraged. While it is true that our military members can refuse unlawful orders, it is also true what President Trump pointed out, that sedition is punishable by death.
That is also true. Sedition is considered a bad thing in military service. One can be hanged, or shot, for sedition.
Both sides of this argument are telling the truth. No military member is required to follow an unlawful order. And sedition can get you shot.
Both sides are being silly, and I'm glad I could clear that up for you.
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The situation escalated with the man shouting threats towards a security guard and pulling at something in his waistband, indicating he was possibly armed, according to police.
The security guard told police that when the man raised his arm from his waistband, he fired shots and struck him.
The man was sent to a hospital in critical, but stable condition, according to SLMPD. He was found to be in possession of a knife.
The security guard, a 49-year-old man, had his firearm seized by police “pending further investigation.”
A man living in the home, believed to be in his 70s, reportedly told police that said someone armed with a gun broke in through a window in the back of the home. The victim said he was ordered into a back bedroom and forced to hand over his car keys and other valuables, according to JSO.
While in the bedroom, the victim said he was able to grab a gun and managed to shoot the suspect once in the shoulder. The suspect reportedly fled the home after being injured and drove off in the victim's car.
JSO says police were able to find the suspect inside the vehicle approximately 30 minutes later, just a couple miles away; he was taken into custody on Fort Caroline Road, near Jacksonville University.
On November 22, 1574, the uninhabited Juan Fernández Islands off Chile were discovered by Spanish sailor Juan Fernández. Later, they were famously the home of marooned sailor Alexander Selkirk, who inspired the novel Robinson Crusoe. — On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. — Today is the birthday of Adelbert Rinaldo Buffington, a well-known designer of military gun parts and acccessories. most notably the Buffington rifle rear sight. — Today is remembered as the birthday of the late Eugene M. Stoner. (Born 1922, died April 24, 1997.) He was the designer of the AR-7, …
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JWR’s Introductory Note: The following is an update and expansion to a very early post that I made in SurvivalBlog back in August, 2005. It is part of a series of SurvivalBlog 20th Anniversary update re-posts, in recognition of the fact that the majority of readers did not join us until recent years. — “Homeowners Associations [HOAs] are the classic definition of a tyranny. HOAs are a level of government, with the power to tax, legislate, judge, and punish its citizens.” – Michael Reardon I’d like to expand on my Criteria for Choosing Your Retreat Locale. You will gain several …
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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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“Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Therefore the ungodly shall …
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