The lies about lard
(Via the Woodpile Report) Growing up, I remember both of my grandmothers cooking with lard. Biscuits, pie crusts, fried chicken–all of these things required lard.…
Central Nervous System stop
(Via Gab) Could you deliver a head shot, cold, under maximum stress, on demand? A Texas husband could and did. There is a reasonable chance…
Saving a DeWalt lithium battery
Something that’s guaranteed to jerk my chain is going to grab a battery powered tool and finding out that not only does it need charging,…
Internet Censorship–Brother, can you spare a mimeo machine?
(Via SurvivalBlog) As you may guess, I”m catching up on reading some of my blogroll. Rawles, it seems, has been on something of a roll…
Well this could be a little…chilling
(Via SurvivalBlog) Not everyone donates to political candidates, but some of us do, at least from time to time. While this my by law be…
Wise words
The Woodpile Report #536 is out; has been sine July 3. As usual, Ol’ Remus says it far better than I can. Please go read…
The Higher Education Racket
(Via the Drudge Report) The headline of the Boston Globe article reads “Lawrence Bacow promises a more outward-looking Harvard“. For those of you who have…
Unwanted guests
If you’ve ever made the mistake of trying to explain to people why they should be ready for emergencies, especially long duration emergencies, you’ve gotten…
Something that isn’t politics
(Via Gab) It’s simply made of awesome. Since we told cable TV to take a hike, I’ve been watching all sorts of things (at the…
Data points…we’ve got data points
(Links from Drudge and elsewhere) Dammit, politics again. Democrats encourage violence against supporters of President Trump. SCOTUS upholds the travel ban that named several majority…
Home invasions get worse
I’m sure some of you are thinking “Someone or a group of people has just busted through the door–how is this going to get worse?”…
SPLC, thy name is LOSE
It seems the Southern Poverty Law Center (which is none of those things) has lost a court case to a former Islamic radical that it…
“They’re coming for you next.”
(Via Breitbart) Once again, even though I’m trying not to do a lot of politics on the blog, I have to go there. The weekend’s…
Blogger strikes again
Yes, I know, I really ought to get off Blogger. I’m guilty of taking the path of least resistance here, but I suppose I’m going…
Home invasions
I don’t want to belabor this subject too much; I know we’ve gone over it before. However, this one happened in a nearby small city,…
Just a couple of points
Armed bystander shoots, kills gunman in Walmart parking lot. Point #1: You are your own first responder. Point #2: It isn’t fireworks or balloons popping.…
The rest of the story
(With apologies to the late Paul Harvey for stealing his famous tag line.) A few posts ago I did a little thing about how the…
When things don’t go quite the way you thought they’d go
I’m not sure whether I feel sorry for these sanctimonious turd burglars because they’re being taken advantage of by unscrupulous adults who don’t give a…
The top X items that will disappear from the shelves when something horrible happens
So how many lists have you seen along the lines of that title? Five, 6, a dozen? 50 items, 100 items–crap, if something bad enough…
Again, we remember
While those few that remain are still young in their memories, and many who were were once young will forever remain so, those of us…
What we have here…
Is an amazing lack of situational awareness. Along with some amazing stupidity. The swarm of teenagers milling around the Village at Sandhill on Saturday evening…
Do you blog? Have a Facebook account?
Then the Department of Homeland Security is probably going to be creeping on you. I suppose I should apologize for all those times I made…
“Their safety equipment took the search out of search and rescue.”
We preppers sometimes let ourselves go down the garden path thinking that prepping is about big emergencies like hurricanes or economic collapse. But stories like…
Upgrades for your AR
(Via The Woodpile Report) Practical AR Enhancements That Work From practical experience, I can endorse reliability enhancements I, II and IV. I feel that III…
Low budget wind turbines
(Via Gab) So the world has gone all Mad Max on you and you need to make some energy. You didn’t stock up on solar…
Today, we honor those who didn’t come home
The National memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. Honolulu, Hawaii
Reason #4,237 why we go armed in public
(Via the Drudge Report) 18-year-old wants-to-be-famous bad guy walks into a restaurant and shoots a mom and her daughter who are celebrating a birthday. On…
The inversion continues
I have tried to keep off of politics on the blog lately, with the exception of the gun thing, which I’ll never lay off of.…
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”
That statement, attributed to Rahm Emanuel, mayor of the gun-controlled paradise of Chicago, takes on new meaning in light of the news that Obama-ear Education Secretary Arne…