VIDEO: "Satan's Storm"

 On June 15, 1960, temperatures in the town of Kopperl, Texas, spiked to near 140 °F (60 °C). 

VIDEO: "The Night Texas Hit 140°F (60°C) During a Thunderstorm"
Swegle Studios (24 min.)

In-N-Out Shooter Lost Bravado When He Came Under Fire

From the New York Post: "Hero civilian says In-N-Out shooter’s ‘bravado immediately crumbled’ after he fired back." The relevant part:

    Jordan Salinas, 35, told ABC News that he noticed Chad Williams, 24, aiming his rifle at passing vehicles outside the Twin Falls fast food chain on Saturday when he decided to leap into action.

    “I peeked around the right-hand side of that sign closest to the road, and that’s when I saw the individual with his rifle pointed at the vehicles,” Salinas told the outlet in a sit-down interview alongside his girlfriend, Emily Cohelo.

    Salinas, a healthcare worker and the full-time caregiver for his brother, said Williams appeared calm as he aimed at cars — but his confidence quickly faded when he realized he was also in the line of fire.

    “He seemed unusually comfortable aiming that rifle at those cars,” Salinas said. “As soon as some rounds started coming at him, everything changed immediately. All that bravado he had immediately crumbled.”

    Salinas raised his FN Five-Seven – a semiautomatic pistol equipped with a suppressor – with both hands and squeezed off a round.

    It was the first time he ever aimed his weapon at a living target, he told the Idaho Statesman. 

So not a hunter. This was also interesting: 

He said he had trained for the moment after witnessing the 2021 mass shooting at the Boise Towne Square mall, in which two people were killed, and several more were wounded. 

And below is the ABC News report with an excerpt from the interview:  

VIDEO: "Hero civilian describes gun battle at Idaho In-N-Out restaurant"
ABC News (2 min.)

Leftists Are Evil

Kurt Schlichter writes about "Democrats Want to Close the Prisons, Except Not for People Like You," discussing why Democrats favor letting criminals run wild, explaining:

    ... Socialism is not about making lives better or creating prosperity or security or any of those things. It’s about jerks living out their personal psychodramas while they get off on making you miserable.

    Nothing demonstrates that more than the idea of defunding the police and getting rid of prisons. After all, you wicked normal people deserve to have thugs, junkies, murderers, rapists, and other Democrat constituencies turned on you to make you pay for the crime of being you. You need to understand the deep hate that lives within all these people, and that’s why, in every single leftist sector of society, you see the actual criminals not merely being ignored but being idolized. The DSA types would free these barbarians for the express purpose of allowing those barbarians to hurt you, because you deserve to be hurt. You deserve to be killed. You deserve to be raped. Why? Because these freaks don’t like you and it amuses them to see you in pain. 

[snip]

    So all this stuff about closing the prisons is just nonsense. Same with defunding the police. The DSA types have no intention of ending prisons or ending the police. They just intend to change the target demographic from actual criminals to people like you who stand up and demand your rights. In the socialist paradigm, the only real crime is opposing the socialists. And they would not hesitate to lock you up or murder you if you get in their way. 

He also notes:

No, the evil of socialism is not a bug, but rather a feature. Remember, it’s driven by hate—hate of the normal, hate of the smarter, hate of the better, hate of your parents who just didn’t get you. And every single time it’s put into practice, we see the same thing. Since everything in socialism goes against human nature, you need an apparatus of repression designed to force people to accept what nature rejects. There’s not a socialist country without thuggish police. There’s not a socialist country where you can speak freely. There’s not a socialist country where you are free because your freedom defeats the whole purpose of socialism, which is ensuring your submission to the cadres. 

Even importing the third world is a part of this evil. In "Nick Shirley’s New Video Dismantles the Left’s Narrative on Ceuta's Migrant Crisis," Aaron Hanscom points out that the recent invasion of the Spanish enclave of Ceuta is because of Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his promise of amnesty to illegal aliens residing in Spain. But why would Sánchez do this? 

If they allow this to become the Third World, they know — people in power — they know they will be able to do whatever they want. They will increase their power because a ruler in the Third World is a real ruler. The thing here is that people in power know that if they become this, the Third World, they will increase their power and their money even more. That's the thing because they can control the society in an easier way. I mean, if, if you keep this full of third-worlders, you can do whatever you want if you are in power. 

The article notes a similar sentiment from Victor Davis Hanson discussing why Democrat leaders favor open borders:

First of all, they are nihilist; they like the chaos. Second, they feel all these people will come, and they cannot assimilate or culturally integrate. They have no skills or background checks. No health care. And that means they will have enormous demands on the state, with bigger government, more taxes, more redistribution. And of course they are a constituency. They will be dependent on the state, and they are going to vote for a socialist ticket. And that is the subtext of both what is going on in Spain and what is going on over the border. And what the socialists have done here. 

So back to Schlichter's article. He concludes with this warning: "Understand what kind of America these DSA types want. Understand that they will use the engines of government, including the courts and law enforcement, against you. Understand that there will still be crimes; it’s just those crimes will be saying what you think, praying how you want, and owning guns." And, I would add, if you don't submit to them, you will likely be cut out of the economy, unable to buy or sell. The Flock cameras and cashless society will see to that. 

VIDEO: "Rappelling For The Prepared Citizen"

  

 VIDEO: "Rappelling for the Prepared Citizen - Introduction and Basics"
Echo Mike (46 min.)

¡No Pasarán!: The Real Reason For The Covid Panic

 In his piece, "'Fauci did his bit, played his part, and was lavishly rewarded by the press': So how did a virus with a ~.02%-.04% mortality rate become 24/7 headline news? It became battle prep for the 2020 election steal,"  the author observes:

So how did a virus with a ~.02%-.04% mortality rate become 24/7 headline news? It became battle prep for the 2020 election steal, an incessant drumbeat of death and lockdowns and an economy gone sideways, an endless news cycle of bad news. The dark powers went all in and, among other illegalities, introduced the loosey-goosey mail-in ballot to complement stay-at-home COVID bug-a-boos and hysteria. And who would've suspected if it had been a repeat 2016 squeaker, but the dark powers didn't want to beat Trump they wanted to humiliate him, break him, to politically memory-hole him. So they fabricated 81M+ votes for zombie candidate Biden from the fag-end of Obama 44. That's 11,784,985 votes over peak Obama (2008) and 6,265,888 over Harris's $2B+ mad money campaign (2024). [Pause.] Yeah.  

 On a related note, Declan Finn writes about "Fauci the murderer." He begins:

    Doctor Anthony Fauci killed my father.

    If he’s not a direct killer, he was at least an accomplice.

    When my father came down with an infection that played havoc with his blood sugar, the hospital treating him dismissed it as “just an infection,” and because hospital was operating on COVID protocols and couldn’t be bothered to do their job, they sent him home without stabilizing his blood sugar.

    My father was dead before the week was out. 

And he correctly points out: "In fact, everything labeled a 'conspiracy theory' was true, and if you had a big enough microphone to say that, Fauci made it his job to crush you" 

FBI Data: Murders By Race

From Guns America: "FBI Murder Data Reveals Who Commits Homicides, Who Victims Are." Not surprisingly to anyone that pays attention to facts over propaganda, "[a]ccording to the FBI data analyzed by the CPRC, Black offenders accounted for 56.4% of known murderers in 2024." Also, "[t]he report also compares each group’s share of murderers with its share of the overall U.S. population." And the results?

If every demographic group committed murders strictly in proportion to its share of the population, everyone would score 1.0. Instead, the CPRC found one group stood far apart from the rest. Black males registered 8.3, White males were 1.2, and every other demographic group came in below 1.0. 

And if you think the White ratio seems high, you are correct because it lumps Hispanics with Whites; and we know from other studies that Hispanics commit homicides at rates well above those of Whites. 

Fauci's Holocaust

Kevin Downey Jr. has a piece over at PJ Media entitled "COVID-19: Fauci's Holocaust." And I think he is spot on in his observations laying this at the feet of Fauci. Some of the points raised in the article:

COVID was nothing less than a modern-day Holocaust.  It killed roughly seven million people worldwide. Economies crumbled, and trillions of dollars were lost. Families were kept apart on holidays. We watched our grandparents die alone on tablets. Funerals were either not allowed or limited to 10 people. Children didn't go to school, creating years of educational and emotional damage they still feel today.

[snip]

 The COVID virus and the responses were some of the most evil, premeditated tactics humans have ever wrought upon mankind. What we also endured was a years-long propaganda-fest that would ideologically tear families apart, cost people their livelihoods, and have people at each other's throats in what many were duped into believing was an existential threat to everyone on the planet.

 Here's what we know:

• Fauci decided to sidestep restrictions on gain-of-function research in the U.S. so, through grants and contracts, pursued gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
• There, researchers created the COVID-19 virus which, whether by accident or deliberately, was released, quickly spreading in China and, thence, to the rest of the world. 
• Fauci's diary states on February 8, 2020, that he believed that COVID's fatality rate at 0.2-0.3%, but on March 10, he stated it was 10 times higher, which lie he repeated in testimony to Congress.
• He was a key figure urging the lockdowns, notwithstanding that COVID was no more fatal than seasonal flu. And he "admitted in his diary that he convinced elected leaders to continue the lockdowns for as long as he deemed necessary."
• He was a key figure behind mask mandates although he knew that the masks did nothing to prevent the spread of the virus 
• He used the lockdowns as a way of forcing people to get the vaccination.
• And he did all of this for fame, money, and self-aggrandizement.  

14 Abandoned Towns And Cities From Around The World

Pyramiden, Svalbard--a Russian coal mining settlement abandoned in 1998

The article is "14 Abandoned Cities Around the World With Eerily Beautiful Architecture" from Architectural Digest. The cities range from ancient settlements like Mesa Verde (Colorado) to more modern abandoned towns and settlements in California, Russia, the UAE, and more. Some I was already familiar with from other articles or videos, but some were new to me. 

Gun & Prepping News #92

 Some links that may be of interest: 

• "Hero armed citizen opened fire on Idaho In-N-Out gunman, tried to stop shooting that left 2 dead, 7 wounded: harrowing video"--The New York Post.  
• "The Case Against FliteControl" by Travis Pike, The Truth About Guns. The author, who admits to using the 8-pellet Winchester buckshot with the FliteControl wad in his self-defense shotgun, writes:

For me, the biggest argument against FliteControl is the same argument for FliteControl: the pattern is tight. When dealing with typical home defense ranges, every shotgun load is firing a fairly tight pattern due to the limited range. A standard shotgun pattern is tight enough that the likelihood of an errant pellet is quite low.

When we reduce the pattern to a hole slightly larger than a 12-gauge slug, we are losing out on a big benefit to throwing multiple pellets per trigger pull. The little bit of spread we are getting at home defense ranges can help us put pellets where it matters.   

What I believe he is getting at is that you just don't need it for self defense inside the home because the distances are so short.  

• "August 2026 Rangemaster Drill of the Month: 3 Seconds Standard, Vers. 2.0"--The Tactical Wire. Revisiting a point made in the Weekend Reading column:

“The DEA in 2007 had 44 incidents in which shots were fired against criminals. The average engagement distance was 14.6 feet. The typical American sedan is 16 feet long, so we could just say, about a car length. 

“In the case of our students who had to shoot in self-defense, the distances involved were: 

Contact distance 4% 

3-7 yards 91% 

Beyond 7 yards 4%

“The 3 shootings beyond 7 yards were at 15,17 and 22 yards, so some work at that sort of distance is needed, but not a lot. 

“So, we put the vast majority of our effort in class on fast, reliable vital zone hits at the 3,5, and 7 yard lines, with a heavy emphasis on 3-5 yards. Three yards could be classified as conversational distance” and is the zone in which we normally talk to strangers. Five yards is essentially one car length. 7 yards is across a large room. If you think in those terms, the reason 91% of our shootings took place at from 3 to 7 yards makes a lot of sense. Keep this in mind when structuring your practice sessions.” 

• Conversely: "The Long Line – Practice for Precision"--Tactical Wire.  

If you want to be able to shoot at all well at 25 yards, you train at fifty yards. That’s the take from a bullseye shooter – at least one and likely many more. It’s also the take of Pat McNamara, a name familiar to those interested in the tactical/personal protection aspect of firearms. 

• "Civilian Marksmanship Program Announces Sale of M14s"--Bearing Arms. No details on prices or availability. In its announcement, "the CMP revealed that the rifles will be modified to be 'permanently and irreversibly semi-automatic rifles,' and will be 'fully compliant with CMP enabling legislation authorizing the transfer and sale of military surplus .30 caliber rifles.'" My guess--and it is only a guess--is that this means that they will be shipping them with new receivers.
• This looks interesting: Sightmark has released a red dot they are calling the G-Shot. What makes it unique is that the red dot is incorporated into a chassis or frame that is designed to fit over the rear of a standard Gen 3, 4, or 5 Glock slide with no modifications to the slide or need to remove the rear sights. 
• "Deep Concealment: Shedding Light on Pocket Carry"--Athlon Outdoors.  

    While deep concealment is the most common, pocket carry shines in a backup-gun role. Many armed citizens and law enforcement officers have long relied on small revolvers or compact pistols carried in a pocket as a secondary firearm. This provides access to a weapon if the primary gun becomes unavailable or if one hand is occupied. Carrying a backup gun in the support-side pocket can create additional options during a defensive encounter. While not everyone needs a second firearm, pocket carry remains one of the most practical methods for those who choose to carry one.

    For others, pocket carry may simply be the only realistic option. Physical limitations, work attire, body type, or daily activities may make traditional waistband carry difficult. The best carry method is often the one that a person can realistically maintain every day. The key is being honest about your situation. Carrying a smaller firearm in your pocket is far better than leaving a larger firearm at home. However, that decision should be made thoughtfully and not solely for convenience. 

• "Review: .45 Long Colt — History and Ammo Recommendations"--The Mag Life. This is one of only a small number of cartridges that successfully made the transition from black powder to modern smokeless powder. 
• "Marines Just Added AI That Turns M240 Machine Guns Into Drone Killers"--Military.com. A system that automates the tracking and targeting of the drones. 

    According to specs provided to Military.com, the system relies on passive sensing rather than radar, which helps keep the host platform’s signature low. Pointing accuracy is listed at less than one minute of angle.

    In the M240 configuration, the cyclic rate is 850 rounds per minute, and the company has repeatedly highlighted a cost per kill measured in the low tens of dollars, driven largely by the price of the ammunition itself. 

• "Sawyer Mini Not Flowing After Storage? How to Restore It"--Modern Survival Blog. The author explains:

    If your Sawyer Mini barely flows after months or years in storage, do not assume it is worn out. The hollow fibers may need to be fully re-wetted. Sediment or mineral deposits may also be blocking the small passageways.

    The best first step is to run clean water through the filter in the normal direction. Then backflush it forcefully with the included syringe. A stubborn filter may need a warm-water soak or a separate white-vinegar soak.

    This matters for anyone who keeps a water filter in an emergency kit. A filter that worked when stored may seem almost useless when you suddenly need it.

    That is especially true when the kit has never been opened or tested since the day it was purchased.

The remainder of the article provides more detailed directions and explanations.

• "Boot Care: How to properly care for your boots."--Joint Force Tactical.  Instructions on cleaning, drying, water proofing, and conditioning of the boot material. 
• "Best Hand Saw for Cutting Logs and Firewood"--Modern Survival Blog. The "best" is somewhat a misnomer because what is best depends on what is the size of the wood and whether you have someone to help you or are working alone. But he goes over different saws what where they excel. 
• The inevitable result of a natural disaster: "Looting breaks out in Bordeaux's empty suburbs as wildfire inferno so big it makes its own lightning storms moves to just seven miles from city"--Daily Mail.  
• "Parasite outbreak explodes to more than 10,000 cases in one state as hundreds are hospitalized nationwide"--Daily Mail. The state is Michigan, and the parasites discussed in the article are not Somalis but cyclosporiasis, "a sickness that causes diarrhea and stomach pain." 

VIDEO: The People You'd Meet On A Medieval Road

 Back when most people walked or used small carts and most of Europe was but empty forest, travel was not as frequent or distant as today. And this impacted the type of people you might encounter on the road. 

 VIDEO: "STRANGE people you meet on a MEDIEVAL ROAD"
Modern History TV (46 min.)