[JR: Seems to sum it up quite nicely to me?]
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MEME: PSA about “free sppeech”
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
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POLITICAL: When to clean the slate and start the next cycle anew?
Wednesday, September 17, 2025https://survivalblog.com/2025/09/03/survivalblog-readers-editors-snippets-228/
SurvivalBlog Readers’ & Editors’ Snippets
James Wesley Rawles September 3, 2025
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Reader R.W. in Oregon had this comment:
“Well, it took a long time but I’ve come to the conclusion that politics is like the weather. People can bitch about it but there’s not a d*mn thing they can do about it. Politics is gonna happen with or without us.
Our votes haven’t meant sh*t since before reconstruction, the “Parties” and “Machines” captured or created by bankers and industrialists made short work of that. There’s no “Right” or “Left”, it’s just “Us” vs “Them”.
Thank God for people like Smedley Butler who had the courage to call it like it is. What he said applies to the entire world, not just us. Read: “Against the Grain”. Greed and avarice breed tyranny.
The most insightful, wise and thoughtful dissection of that premise, in my opinion, is still the Federalist Papers and various books of the Bible.
Eventually, every corrupt and rotting government finally picks a war (all wars are bankers wars) or drives their economy and culture into the ditch and the people won’t take it anymore. Our job is to know when to clean the slate and start the next cycle anew.
That is the one thing we can do. And, as we are one of the last peoples on this planet to retain that one very important right, the rest of the world is looking to us to do it.
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A most interesting dictum to us all. When is enough enough?
Do we wait for “them” to start herding us in to freight cars? We know from history what comes after that!
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . .” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Or do we, like “quiet quitting” and “quiet firing”, just refuse to kowtow to ever more increasing intrusive demands, diktats, and “trends”?
I think that ₿itcoin is the first step. Instead of “saving” in “dollars”, I’m “saving” in ₿itcoins, GoldBacks, junk silver, and gold rounds. Let them figure out how to “inflate” those.
YMMV
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IOS: IOS26 upgrade — issues list
Tuesday, September 16, 2025IOS26 Upgrade — Issues list
2025-Sep-15
- Big download and long delay getting it
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NEWJERSEY: Mikie Sherrill’s voting record is bad news for the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee
Tuesday, September 16, 2025If given the chance? Sherrill will turn N.J. into a giant Charlotte light rail train.
September 10, 2025 — Matt Rooney
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I don’t care what a politician says, Save Jerseyans.
Especially once they’ve developed a record? I care what they actually do, and Mikie Sherrill’s voting record in the U.S. House of Representatives gives me reason to believe she’d be a law-and-order DISASTER as New Jersey governor.
New Jersey is already struggling under the current cashless bail regime, and as the stomach-churning murder of a young immigrant woman on Charlotte’s light rail system vividly illustrates, the consequences of having a leaders who aren’t tough on criminals are inevitably fatal.
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Typical “democrat” soft on everything important!
For a veteran and pilot, I’d have expected a more realistic platform and record.
Not that the R is much better.
Argh!
To quote from the movie “The Far Side of the World” Master and Commander Capt. Jack Aubrey: “There! I have you! You’re completely dished. … one must always choose the lesser of two weevils?”
It’s just about as significant.
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MEME: About last night’s “emmys”
Monday, September 15, 2025
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ENCOURAGING: “Forbidden” llists are counter-productive to censorship
Monday, September 15, 2025https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/from-forbidden-to-top-sellers?r=3snn7d
From Forbidden to Top Sellers
- If books are any indication, the Bio-Pharmaceutical Complex is losing in the marketplace of ideas.
John Leake — Sep 09, 2025
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The dummies who tried to impose a censorship regime in the United States should have understood that their scheme wouldn’t work.
Key actors in the “censorship-industrial complex,” as Michael Shellenberger calls it, should have understood that their enterprise was doomed to fail, just as the Catholic Church’s Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Index of Forbidden Books), maintained between 1560 to 1966, was doomed to fail.
Notable authors on the Index included Jean-Paul Sartre, Michel de Montaigne, Voltaire, Denis Diderot, Victor Hugo, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, André Gide, Nikos Kazantzakis, Emanuel Swedenborg, Baruch Spinoza, Desiderius Erasmus, Immanuel Kant, David Hume, René Descartes, Francis Bacon, Thomas Browne, John Milton, John Locke, Nicolaus Copernicus, Niccolò Machiavelli, Galileo Galilei, Blaise Pascal, and Hugo Grotius.
Rather than censoring and banning ideas, it’s always better to discuss and debate them.
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I remember in Catholic High Skrule each week, the Diocesan newspaper (I forget the name) would print the Forbidden Books and Forbidden Movies lists. And the good Christian Brothers would make a point of reminding us that these would damage our souls. Little did they realize it was, just like Adam and Eve, tempting us. I know everyone tried to read or see these “evil demons”. Most of us succeeded. Word quickly spread which were worth the effort and which weren’t. Laugh!
I don’t think it made a difference.
If I was the Principal I would have put the summer required reading list as “Prohibited” and it would have gotten read.
Sigh! Those were the “easy days”.
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ETC: Links I thought were interesting
Sunday, September 14, 2025Ten Years Post “Cheating” – EPautos – Libertarian Car Talk
More On Charlie Kirk, The Qatar Strike and the Russia’s Netcentric Military Doctrine
A Common Trait Among Mentally Disturbed Women: Deviant-ated Septum
Some Catholic Schools Adding Armed Response After Annunciation Shooting – Bearing Arms
We betrayed Russians in 1945. We’re doing it again in 2025. :: Jeff Jacoby
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MEME:Teach the criminal to fear the victim by LtCol Jeff Cooper
Sunday, September 14, 2025
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GUNS: Lessons from the Charlie Kirk assassination
Sunday, September 14, 2025Charlie Kirk assassin most likely ‘internet shooter’ who took advantage of low-security spot: elite sharpshooter
By Nicholas McEntyre
Published Sep. 11, 2025, 6:31 a.m. ET
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Ranstad believes the gunman used a high-powered rifle during Wednesday’s shooting.
“I don’t think it was an AR, the crack had too much base in it, not a crack like an AR,” he said, claiming it was either from a .308 bolt action or a 7.62 x 39mm.
He called on investigators to check local gun ranges for any unusual activities in the weeks leading up to Kirk’s murder.
“Any bloke can go to the range three or four times and make that shot. I would start looking at range time if I was police,” he told the outlet. “They should get all the videos, who’s got what rifle and who isn’t properly trained so don’t know how to control their blood pressure and adrenaline.
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IMHO “easy shot”. 200 yards. Slightly down. No real security. One shot. Smells professional — except for one fact.
I bet all politicians and bureaucrats will be better protected now.
This is the stuff that you see in the movies.
Definitely someone with some training, maybe a lot.
Could be an experienced deer hunter with that type of weapon,
Not your average “mass shooter” kid on drugs, or gang banger.
Given what is known publicly, he may never be found.
Unless he carelessly left brass, fingerprints, dna, or some type of trash, there may not be a lot of physical evidence,
Unless they have a picture of him that they have not released, it’s going to be a tough case.
The one fact that says not a pro — If he was “camouflaged” at least his face, then I’d suspect a professional. Otherwise, I’d bet on a “deer hunter”.
But what do I know?
Technically any good shooter could have done it, but this is not the work of a noob.
We shall see.
I’m sure that all the survivalists and patriots are watching this one. Like the internet memes, always point out — if guns were the problem, you’d know it — “You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.” — apocryphal unsourced quote attributed to Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto — Rambo movie about body bags. —
Dona Nobis Pacem
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Update: “Investigators say the suspect left palm prints on the roof and a shoe imprint as he fled— a grave mistake.”
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MEME: In reaction to the assassination of Charlie Kirk
Saturday, September 13, 2025Paratattein (παρατάττειν) “Form the line!” — attributed to Leonidas to prepare his men for battle at
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