VIDEO: Master Ken Teaches How To Defend Against Someone In A Wheelchair

I'm tired of all the serious news, so here is some humor instead.  

VIDEO: "Wheelchair Defense"
EnterTheDojoShow (4 min.)

UK Police Have Learned Nothing

You would think that the police in the UK would have learned something from the the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak by an Indian migrant with a strong assist from the responding police officers. But no. As Gateway Pundit reports in its article, "WATCH: Group of African Thugs in England Attacks Young White Man – UK Police Rush in to Arrest and Charge White Victim, Ask People Not to Share Footage of Incident!", the police--this time in Birmingham--once again jumped in to help the attackers by continuing their assault on the hapless victim:

    In the video referenced, the young White man is clearly seen being surrounded and screamed at by a group of African men before one tackles him unprovoked. As he attempts to get up, another man is seen punching him in the head from behind.

    But instead of going after the perpetrators, a female officer rushes in and slams the White victim up against a wall. Seemingly out of confusion, the young man swings at the officer, likely without knowing she’s a cop, but instead thinking she was one of his attackers.

    The officer then began screaming profanities at him and placed him under arrest.

[snip]

    In another snippet of the encounter, the female cop drags the handcuffed victim, saying, “You’re gonna walk to the f*cking car you d*ck,” as he pleads with the police, saying, “Please, I’m trying to go home.”

    Another clip shows the cops manhandling him and shoving him into the car the wrong way. “Get in the f*cking car,” a male officer says as he shoves the man’s head down into the car with his back facing the front. 

Just like the Nowak case, this is another instance of the UK police acting as accessories to the crime. And their guilt is underlined by the fact that they requested people to not share copies of the video.  

Wilder: Latest Civil War 2.0 Weather Report

 John Wilder has published a new Civil War 2.0 Weather Report. In this latest report, he takes a look at the evidence that the elites hate you and want to replace you with immigrants from the third world. And, in this regard, he points out:

 And it is clear that all of the education, all of the rhetoric, all of the media are slanted to create the idea that the only people who can’t have a homeland, the only people that can’t belong are white people.  This is now becoming noticed.  When commentators as mainstream as Matt Walsh are freed to X® about it, well, you can tell that the hour is short.

Illegals Caused Massive Spike In Housing Costs

From the New York Post: "Biden’s illegal immigration surge triggered 30% rise in home prices, $ [sic] 20% in rents, Fed paper finds." I guess immigration is a strength for the wealthy. 

Horde of Black Teens Pummel South Carolinia Cops

I had to fix the original headline, which read: "Horde of teens pummel South Carolina cops breaking up July 4th party in wild brawl." In fact, the word "black" doesn't appear anywhere in the title. You have to watch the video to get that vital information. Also you will notice two of the worst offenders were women.

VIDEO: Gog And Magog

 I'm old enough to remember when the predominant theory of the identity of the land of Magog was that it was the Soviet Union. But today most recognize that Magog refers to Asia Minor (i.e., Turkey) and, of course, Gog is the leader of the people of Magog.

The video goes over both the peoples and area from which Gog and Magog come, while also addressing arguments that the prophecy of Gog and Magog already took place in history. The video explains why the events still lie in the future. Gog seems to be the Anti-Christ from the Book of Revelation.  

 VIEW: "Gog & Magog Isn’t What You Think…"
Joel Richardson (31 min.)

VIDEO: South African Anti-Immigration Protests

June 30 had been a deadline imposed by citizens in South Africa to drive out illegal immigrants, culminating in protests several days ago. 

 VIDEO: "Chaos erupts in South Africa as anti-migrant protests sweep nation"
Sky News Australia (6 min.)

Gun & Prepping #88

Some links that may be of interest: 

• "Goodbye M7, Hello XM8"--The Firearm Blog. Key bit:

The Pentagon's FY2027 budget request booklet outlines continued investment in the Generation Squad Weapons program but previously planned procurement of more M7s will now be replaced by the XM8. The US Army hasn't procured any M7 rifles in Federal FY2026 (which began on 1 October 2025).    

Also:

The Army states that the XM8 is approximately 3.5 inches shorter and over a pound lighter than the M7. The XM8 features a slimmer barrel, a shorter suppressor and new 25-round magazine. The XM8 also has improved hanguard rigidity and a fixed, rather than folding stock.

• "Field Shooting Positions & Real-World Hunting"--American Hunter.  The author observes:

    The reality is, hunting is chock full of randomness. Sure, you can pattern animals’ travel and, to an extent, timing, but everything else—such as where a big-game animal stops, the angle of its body, etc.—is unsystematic. Perfection is rare. And so it is with shooting, too.

    When a suitable shot is presented, and you’re confident in your abilities, you must do so at the earliest moment; procrastinating can cost you an animal, and potentially that once-in-a-lifetime trophy. Learning about, as well as practicing from, the various shooting positions can prepare you for whatever you encounter.

    In the subsequent sections, I detail some of the real-world field shooting positions, ranging from prone to standing, unsupported or “freehand,” along with middle-ground techniques. Not all shooters are comfortable with all of them, but the more versed you are, the better. Let’s begin with the most stable shooting position—prone. 

• "5 Red Dot Pistol Drills to Find the Dot Faster and Shoot Better"--Ammo Land.  This is an updated version of a 2025 article. The author begins by noting that it is not easy to switch from iron sights to a red dot, before giving a presentation drill. Alternatively:

    Another great way to get better at finding your dot is to work the draw and presentation in reverse. Start with the firearm extended and the dot on target, then reverse the presentation, breaking it down step by step. This is a great drill to do dry, but can be done with live ammo as well.

    Start in the ready position, on target. I use a B8, but you can use anything. With the dot on target, fire a shot, and then break the position down. Pull the weapon inward to the pre-presentation position, but try and keep the dot on target until the gun dips below your eyesight.

    From there, you can reverse the draw and reholster the firearm. Now you can draw and do a presentation drill. Then, repeat the process: start in the ready, fire a shot, and then break the form down, constantly looking for that dot.

• "Silencer Saturday #438: Wheel Gun Suppression With Revolver Seal"--The Firearm Blog.  In interesting product: a shroud that goes around the frame and cylinder of a Heritage Rough Rider to seal the cylinder gap when using a suppressor. 
• Mixing two great things: firearms and the Cthulhu Mythos: "The Tandemized Ruger MK IV"--The Truth About Guns: 

    I talked to the folks at TANDEMKROSS last year at GunCon and had a chance to shoot some of their customized guns at range day. Late last year I followed up with them and picked up the parts to do a build of my own. While TANDEMKROSS does offer complete pistols, I opted to put one of my own together.

    The MK IV is a pretty popular mod platform so you can buy just about any component you want individually. I picked up a new 22/45 Lite barreled upper in Flat Dark Earth as my base. It came with a threaded barrel, iron sights, and a Picatinny rail, but no bolt. From TANDEMKROSS I got one of their Cthulhu grip frames, bolt with Halo extended charging ring, compensator, fiber optic sights, and upgrade components for 22/45 magazines. 

    The primary upgrade piece from TANDEMKROSS is their Cthulhu lower. Cthulhu is an ancient eldritch horror from H.P. Lovecraft’s 1928 short story, The Call of Cthulhu. He’s represented as a colossal being with a tentacled face and is pretty much the epitome of uncaring evil. Why is the TANDEMKROSS lower named the Cthulhu? You’ll have to ask them that. I’m an H.P. Lovecraft fan so I’m good with it. I will say though, there’s nothing evil about their Cthulhu. 

• Some firearm history: "Beretta 1934: First Hit by the World’s Oldest Gunmaker"--Breach Bang Clear. Although Beretta is 500 years old, the article indicates that they didn't actually start manufacturing whole firearms until WWI. The Beretta 1934 was a .380 caliber that was adopted by the Italian military in 1935 and continued in production until 1991. The article discusses the history in more detail as well as describing how to field strip the pistol. 
• ".30-30 Winchester Ammo — Performance and Top Loads"--Mag Life. An excerpt;

    Shooters can expect 20 to 30 inches of penetration with the .30-30 Winchester. Traditional soft point ammo tends to penetrate about 20 to 25 inches, while solid copper monolithic rounds can achieve over 30 inches. Because of the slower velocity and heavy bullet design, .30-30 will typically travel through light barriers and bone without much deflection.

    Both soft point and hollow point rounds expand to roughly twice their original diameter, resulting in 0.60 to 0.65 inches. .30-30 is known for its excellent weight retention, and quality expanding loads retain 80 to 95 percent of their initial weight. Again, this is due to their moderate velocities, which prevent the intense forces that tear bullets apart. 

• "50/200 Yard Zero Simplified for 5.56 and .308 Rifles"--Ammo Land. The author writes:

The concept behind a 50/200 yard zero is straightforward: zero your rifle at 50 yards, and the bullet will cross the line of sight again at approximately 200 yards. This means that within this distance, your point of aim and point of impact will be very close, minimizing the need for adjustments. This is particularly advantageous in dynamic situations where quick target acquisition is crucial. I live in Northeastern Ohio where the longest shot I would realistically take is 200 yards, so this zero makes sense for my area. 

• "Concealed Carry Corner: Useful Vs Necessary Concealment Items"--The Firearm Blog. The author discusses three items: red dot; "upgraded" parts; and weapon lights/lasers. He considers the red dot to be necessary and the other two items as unnecessary. I am going to have to disagree. Red dots work well with race guns and openly carry duty weapons, but create snagging problem and increase bulk with concealed carry making it more difficult to conceal carry a weapon. Thus, they also fall into the "useful" category and, I would argue, actually detrimental with pocket carry. 
• "One Law at a Time: How Congress Dismantled the Second Amendment Over 90 Years"--The Truth About Guns. How Congress usurped the Second Amendment starting with the National Firearms Act, which tested the waters by justifying the violation of the Second Amendment as merely a form of taxation; and then when nothing happened, abandoning the taxation excuse and just moving on as if Congress had the inherent authority to regulate firearms. 
• "How to Vacuum Seal Rice for Long-Term Storage"--Modern Survival Blog.  Short version: "Yes, you can vacuum seal rice for long-term storage. For best results, use dry white rice, seal it in smaller vacuum sealer bags, keep it cool, dry, and dark, and protect the bags inside a bin or bucket so they do not get punctured."
• "14 Survival Supplies Most Emergency Kits Are Missing"--SHTF Preparedness. Some things that can be easy to overlook: a manual can opener; extra eye glasses; important documents; work gloves; dust masks or respirators; etc. I was a little disappointed to see no reference to nail files or clippers which are important to avoid injuries (and infections) that would result from a torn nail, and just plan hygiene benefits by having short nails which won't accumulate dirt and other material. I would also include nail brushes. 
• "How to Sharpen a Knife"--The Alpha Survivalist.  The author begins by noting that "[i]f a knife is properly taken care of,  it should never have to be “sharpened” it should only have to be honed or touched up. So to start honing your knife you can use many different things, but for this I will  just use the tools that are made for the job. I’ll start with an Arkansan sharpening stone."
• "How Many Gallons in a 20 lb Propane Tank?"--Modern Survival Blog. From the article:

Quick Answer: A properly filled 20 lb propane tank holds about 4.7 to 4.8 gallons of propane. Many exchange tanks contain only 15 lb, which is about 3.6 gallons.     

• "My 10-Step Guide to Preparing for an EMP"--Modern Survival Online. The author discusses each, but the basic 10 steps are:

1. Stock up on basics;
2. Assess vulnerabilities;
3. Get a generator;
4. Invest in radios;
5. Consider an older vehicle;
6. Protect critical gear with a Faraday cage;
7. Have an alternative method of heating your home;
8. Get analog tools and gadgets;
9. Establish a family contingency plan; and
10.  Improve your skills or learn new skills to become a Renaissance man.

• "Real World Solar Charging"--Blue Collar Prepping. 

    This winter, my parents gifted me a set of RV solar panels that they have no real use for as virtually all of their RV time is spent in parks with full hookups. Most of mine is as well, but there are places that I enjoy camping that do not have utilities at each site. In these places, you're constrained to what you can haul and what you can generate, and these constraints mean I have 58 gallons of water and whatever amperage my batteries are charged to when I leave home. When I reach the ends of that, I need to either be headed home or have a way to resupply.

    Today we'll look at recharging those batteries. Without an electrical outlet to plug into, my charging options are pretty limited:

•  I can hook my truck electrical system to the trailer, similar to jump starting, but that's very inefficient and doesn't provide a good charge to RV batteries. 
•  I can hook a generator to my trailer and create 120v power, which works very well with regards to convenience and utility, but it is quite loud, which the neighbors don't appreciate. Generators are also fairly heavy, require regular maintenance, and take up quite a bit of space. 
• Use a small solar array.

RPG Saturday: Getting Players Invested

Time got away from me this weekend, so I wasn't able to finish my planned post for this week's RPG Saturday column. So let me leave you with this excellent video from Seth Skorkowsky giving advice to game masters on how to get your players more invested in their characters and the NPCs. If you like the Monster Hunters Inc. books by Larry Correia, you will probably enjoy Skorkowsky's "The Valducan" book series.

 VIDEO: "Getting Players Invested - Running RPGs"
Seth Skorkowsky (16 min.)

Happy Independence Day

 

The Declaration of Independent did not come out of nowhere. It was not simply a revolt against taxes imposed without any representation. Rather, it contains a long list of grievances which had been brought before the British King and had been ignored or punished:

• He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
• He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
• He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. 
• He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
• He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
• He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
• He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
• He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
• He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
• He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. 
• He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
• He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
• He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
• For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
• For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
• For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
• For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
• For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
• For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
• For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
• For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
• For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
• He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
• He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
• He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
• He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
• He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

    We could draw up a similar list of grievances against the federal government.  For instance:

• The federal government and its courts routinely act outside the authority given under the Constitution or expressly forbidden in the Constitution, up to and including the overturning or nullification of state laws (e.g., laws concerning marriage and firearms); and thereby, "has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance."
• It routinely involves us in foreign wars without Congressional approval as required by the Constitution.
• It has refused to protect our borders but instead encouraged hordes of aliens and savages to enter the country without our consent; thereby waging war against the citizens of the various states and diluting their political power and disenfranchising them. 
• It has imposed excessive taxes to pay for federal programs, aid, projects, etc., that lie outside its authority given under the Constitution, and funnels money to other countries, political parties, and private organizations and individuals contrary to the Constitution and the duties of Congress to properly account for its funds and budgets.
• It routinely violates the Fourth Amendment directly or indirectly through private actors. 
• It routinely acts in secrecy without public knowledge or oversight.
• It has, without our consent, changed our systems of governance in the diverse states thereby eliminating laws to protect the rights and representation of rural peoples in favor of rule by urban populations (e.g.,  Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533 (1964) which forced state senates to be apportioned by population, effectively just making them a second house of representatives at the state level). 
• It routinely changes laws or creates new laws by recourse to court decisions rather than through acts of Congress. 
• Congress has improperly delegated its law making authority to bureaucrats of the Executive Branch or creation of independent agencies and bodies.  
• Congress has improperly transferred authority and duties of the treasury to private banks and independent bodies.  

I'm sure you can think of more.