I’ve been watching Fallout on Prime lately, and the sound track is just amazing. I can’t do the embed thing with the current state of the blog, but I can provide a link, so please enjoy “Crawl out Through the Fallout”!
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qwwd2uzmm44?si=1DLwLxQIAw-4rvNe
This article was written by Chris on Oct 23, 2012.
The GOODI bag is just another name for the 72 hour bag, otherwise known as the BOB. BOB stands for Bug Out Bag and GOODI stands for Get Out Of Dodge Immediately. What you call your ready bag really doesn’t matter. The name doesn’t change its purpose or function.The reason we use the term GOODI is it allows us to say, “Don’t forget your GOODI bag!” in front of anybody and they will interpret it as goody/treat bag.
So what is a 72 hour bag? A 72 hour bag is designed to keep you going for 72 hours with no outside help or resupply. It might be good for more than 72 hours, but 72 hours is the minimum.
But what goes into the bag? We refer to the Rule of Threes in order to determine what exactly should go into our bag.
This rule says that we need to make first aid our primary consideration. For our ready bags we use a simple first aid kit called the the Nick Fixer. It handles most of the problems we would normally foresee in an emergency situation plus it handles those everyday things that happen. These kits are not “for emergency use only” but should instead be used on a regular basis. Things you use every day are more likely to be with you, and hence you are more likely to have your bag with you.
Make sure you refill your first aid kit if you use things from it. This is one of the reasons we choose to use the Nick Fixer. The people behind it sell everything that is in the first aid kit as refills or add on modules.
We augment our first aid kit with SAM Splints, sting sticks, epi-pens and other first aid gear that we’ve gathered over the years. Yet all of this is small enough to fit into a Utility/Canteen Pouch. You might want to add things like breathing masks for giving mouth to mouth without contaminating yourself, and your own prescription medications.
For those that don’t know, an Epi-Pen is an auto-injector of epinephrine. This drug will reduce swelling (anaphylaxis, generally swelling of the throat and airway) and get people breathing again if they have a severe allergic reaction to things such as bee stings or eating shellfish. They are available by prescription only, but most family doctors are willing to prescribe them if you explain that they are for the family emergency first aid kit because your cousin, niece, aunt has allergic reactions to things like bee stings.
These are some of the things that should be in your ready bag.
Now that we are breathing, no longer bleeding, and sprains and broken bones have been dealt with, it is time to get out of the elements as soon as possible.
There are a multitude of different weather conditions that require shelter. A rain storm on a cold day can kill you from heat loss, and if it doesn’t you’ll still be wet and unhappy. A blistery cold day will suck energy and life from you while a hot day will bake you. A mild spring day with a clear sky can cook your skin (sun burn).
What is acceptable in the day might not be survivable at night. One of the things that kills people in the desert is the extreme cold of night. There can be a 50°F or more drop in temperature between daytime and nighttime.
Getting out of the rain and wind is the first step in getting shelter, and one of the best ways of accomplishing this is with a good, high quality, rugged poncho. The poncho takes a lot of grief because it is ugly and doesn’t seem like it should work as well as a rain suit or other rain gear. The truth is that a poncho will out-perform rain gear in many ways.
For the woman that needs to get into more appropriate clothing, tossing a poncho on and then changing under it gives not only shelter but privacy. The same goes for a man that needs to change out of work slacks and into jeans because it is snowing out.
I once worked in an office with very casual attire. Even during the coldest months of the winter some of the men came in wearing shorts. Why? Because they kept the office at around 72°. It isn’t only the ladies wearing clothing that isn’t appropriate for survival.
A poncho is MUCH faster to put on and doesn’t require you to stand or move around to get it on. There are no pants to deal with. With snaps down the edges it will seal very well and if you hunker down it will trap heat.
The poncho sheds water, wind, and snow very well and should be an integral part of your bag. In addition to its use as outer wear, a poncho can be used to construct a lean-to, a tent, a simple roof, a sleeping roll, a ground cloth, and much more.
One other quick shelter that many forget is your car. Your car, for the most part, is rain, wind and snow proof. It might not feel like it but even in the cold it keeps heat inside the cabin. Don’t walk away from such great shelter if you have it and can use it.
Warning! Science ahead! This section is a discussion of the math of why getting out of the rain and out of wet clothing is so important. It also tells you that putting snow in your mouth to make water to drink is a bad idea.
Why is getting out of the rain and getting dry so important? The answer is “phase change”. A phase change happens when a material changes state from gas to liquid to solid. The amount of heat required to change state is much more than than the amount of heat required to just change the temperature of something.
Consider that glass of ice water you have at hand. If there is ice in it, the water it is 32°F provided there is solid ice. You might have to stir it a little to get all the slightly warmer pockets of water to the same temperature but the water will be at 32°. This is the temperature at which pure water changes state from liquid to solid or from solid to liquid. You have to provide heat or take away heat in order to accomplish this change.
Heat is measured in Calories. The calories in your food and drink are measured in KiloCalories or 1000 Calories. It takes 1 Calorie of heat to raise 1g of matter 1°C. Since a liter is 1000 grams it would take 1 KCal to raise the temperature 1°C.
To take a liter of water from freezing (0°C) and raise itto boiling (100°C at sea level) would require 100 KCals. To take 1 liter worth of water from -1°C to 2°C takes a bit more because of the the phase change. It takes 80cal to convert 1g of water from a solid (ice) to a liquid (water). This means it would take 82Kcal to change a liter of ice into a liter of water.
Thus, using your own body heat to melt snow is going to take 80 food calories per liter of water converted. Emergency rations are generally in the 800 Kcal per day range.
As scary as that number might be, there is another number of interest: the amount of heat it takes to convert water into steam. To convert 1g of water to 1g of steam requires 540cal. To convert 1 liter of water would take 540Kcal or just about your entire day’s Kcal allowance when on emergency rations.
You might be thinking, “But I don’t boil water with my body,” and you are right, you don’t. Something else happens. Water on your body is first heated to around 54°C then as the wind or dry air moves past the liquid water it evaporates. Evaporation is a phase change, similar to boiling, though it happens at a much lower temperature.
When you are wet, some water is always evaporating and the process is cooling your body. As your hair gets soaked you can see it “steam” on a cold day and that is cooling you. This process is the reason why putting a damp cloth on the back of your neck works to cool you on a hot summer’s day.
Get out of the rain as soon as you can. It can mean the difference between life and death.
Once you are out of direct elements it is time to work on staying warm. A space blanket and a space bag are two low cost useful items for your bag. You can get them cheap or you can get good quality. A cheap space blanket can be had for as little as a dollar and the good ones for a bit more than five dollars.
A space blanket/bag is a Mylar sheet that is reflective in the infrared spectrum. What this means is it reflects heat back in (or out) if needed.
To explain why this works and why it is important you should know that heat is transferred in three different ways: convection, conduction and radiation.
Convection is heat transferring to a moving liquid or gas which then carries the heat away. In other words, a cool breeze on a summer’s night is convection. Conduction is the transfer of heat via contact with something colder. Place an ice cube on the back of your neck and it transfers heat from your body to the ice. Radiation is the heat that leaves as radiant energy. The warmth you feel when you hold your hand over an electric burner is radiant heat.
A space blanket is designed to deal with radiant heat transfer. It blocks radiant heat from going through and reflects it back. Because it is a plastic sheet it also stops most convection heat loss as well. It provides some insulation from conductive heat loss but not as much as a good woolen blanket.
Due to the space blanket being thin coated plastic — between 2 and 5 mils (0.002 and 0.005 inches — it folds into a space just a little larger than a travel tissue package. They weigh very little so they are something that you can have with you all the time.
Your clothing is the next step in staying warm or cool. Though many people don’t realize it, clothing can help keep you cool by providing circulation of air for convection cooling and evaporative cooling.
The first important thing about having clothing in your bag is that it allows you to get out of wet clothing and into dry clothing. Some fabrics do a better job of holding in heat when wet than others. Wool retains most of its insulating properties even when wet. Cotton does not. Silk is amazing for insulation purposes as well.
The second thing extra clothing in your bag allows to happen is it lets you start layering. Layering is the process of creating pockets of air to hold heat. The more layers, the warmer you will be. It isn’t just about bulk; it is about the air spaces between layers.
A few years ago they found the body of a mountain climber from the late 1800s on the side of one of the better known mountains. The amazing thing was what he was wearing. He really did look like he was dressed in a suit and not a parka. He was wearing multiple layers of wool clothing and while he died on that mountain he did not die of exposure.
To test this, a couple of modern climbers tried the same climb in the same type of gear as this 1800s climber. They found that it was keeping them just as warm as modern gear but at the cost of extra weight and less mobility.
Layers WORK for heat retention.
One of the best things to keep you warm and safe in an emergency is a good sleeping bag. The bag my parents bought me before I headed out to collage is still a part of my gear. I remember that they paid around $180 back in the ’80s. It was light-weight yet good to 20°F.
Today you can buy a bag just as good for $30-$50 at your local WalMart or Target store. It is lighter, stuffs down smaller and is easier to clean and care for. Getting a real sleeping bag is likely to make your ready bag that much more useful for you.
The be-all and end-all of sleeping bags is the modern sleeping system.
A sleeping system is a combination of a bivy sack and two sleeping bags. These bags and the sack are designed to fit one inside the other, providing the user with multiple options as to what degree of protection from the elements they actually need.
In the simplest form a person might just use the bivy sack with a light blanket (poncho liner) inside. The bivy sack is designed as a water proof shelter for one. When inside, the sack zips up about 80% along the side, just like a sleeping bag. The top then continues up and over the head where a hook and loop fastener (Velcro) holds the top to the bottom.
Once inside it can rain cats and dogs and you’ll be dry and snug inside.
On a recent camping trip my son took my sleep system to use. The tent he was sleeping in wasn’t very good at keeping water out. But the bathtub floor was very good at keeping the water IN once it got inside.
My son slept in the bivy sack inside the sleeping bags. In the morning he climbed out dry and happy until he had to put his feet out to find a good inch of standing water! When the gear got home we wiped it down and that was all that was needed.
As the temperature drops you start adding sleeping bags to the bivy sack.
This system is designed to cover everything from a rain storm in the tropics at 80+ °F to -30°F in the frozen tundra. When it gets to about 0°F you do need to have appropriate sleep wear (long johns)
While all the above is great for keeping you going, a tent will do so much for your spirit that it should not be forgotten. While it is nice to be able to snuggle into your bivy warm and dry, it does not give you the same creature comfort of crawling into a nice tent.
This is part of “hope” section of the Rule of Threes. While a one man tent or bivy sack will keep you warm and safe there is something delightful to be said about snuggling up with your spouse or child in a tent.
Even if you don’t carry a tent, a cheap tarp and some cordage can be used to create a tent-like structure. Even a bit of paracord and some work can create a sheltered space out of things you find in the woods or urban environment.
After tent-like shelters, consider a shovel and ax to allow you to create your own building. While not something you are likely to do on a 72 hour march, it never hurts to know how to build your own home with simple hand tools.
Please see GOODI Bag part 2 for the next part. We will be finishing the section on shelter by talking a little bit about fire.
Things have been happening around here, but I have stopped posting regularly. Reading Divemedic’s consistent posts has been pushing me to get back into it.
What happened, in general, is that I’ve been getting healthier. I’m still losing weight, and my mental health has been improving. In addition, a change in other medications is also helping.
My wife’s job now includes a long commute. This means that when she gets home, I’m done on the computer. I’m out there in the living room with her. Spending time with her is more important than anything on my computers.
So what’s happening?
Home Depot was selling 1.5″ sch40 black pipe for $7+ per foot. My supply house sold me 21 ft sticks for $60 each. Much cheaper.
I will fill out some of these soon. Mostly the SCOTUS cases and the AI.
Meanwhile, I’m getting closer to being back to building steam engines.
October 30th:
Federal Reserve cuts interest rates for second time this year
https://justthenews.com/
The Fed cut the rate by a quarter of a percentage point…federal funds rate is now at 3.75% to 4%.
Federal judge wildly oversteps her bounds with Border Patrol commander in Chicago
https://www.theblaze.com/news/
“This ruling is ridiculous because it entails a district court judge becoming the supervisor of a senior DHS official on her own initiative. The executive power belongs to the president of the United States — not to Article III judges. Judges have the right to issue lawful injunctions; they do not have the right to micromanage law enforcement,”
Federal judge disqualifies acting US attorney from overseeing some criminal cases
https://justthenews.com/
“Nothing is changing,” First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said
California to deploy observers to watch DOJ poll monitors during election
https://justthenews.com/
“They’re not going to be allowed to interfere in ways that the law prohibits,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said
Acetaminophen-autism link research gets boost from Texas Tylenol liability fraud lawsuit
https://justthenews.com/
The company did not acknowledge its own recommendations in 2017 and 2019 not to take Tylenol at all during pregnancy because the drug wasn’t tested in that setting.
Transgender ID Plunge: Culture Shift Bombshell
https://unitedcause.com/
video – 00:04:25 – https://youtu.be/EFIhVxSiRnk
Trump says China to buy US farm products, export rare earth minerals in exchange for tariff cuts
https://justthenews.com/
Islamic Jihadis Slaughter Thousands of Civilians, Mainly Women and Children, To The Cries of “Allahu Akbar”
https://gellerreport.com/2025/
Nothing from the UN, human rights NGOS, nothing. No protests in the streets, not a word. No marches, No outcry. No black voices in America shouting from the rooftops. Where is BLM? When Muslims do the killing, the silence is deafening.
Biden Judge Releases Man Who Ordered $45K Hit on Pam Bondi
https://headlineusa.com/biden-
The Democrats are the assassins party. The federal magistrate judge, Douglas Micko, allowed Tyler Maxon Avalos to be released from a Minnesota federal prison as long as he does not travel outside the state and undergoes GPS monitoring.
(Magistrate judges are judicial officers of the U.S. district courts appointed by the district judges of the court to handle a variety of judicial proceedings. https://www.uscourts.gov/
Meanwhile in the Caliphate of Al Britannia
https://miguelgg.substack.com/
( comming soon to the Mandami’s Caliphate of New York City – jlr)
Rethinking the way you think about money distribution
https://boriquagato.substack.
Thanksgiving and the art of disagreement
https://www.collapselife.com/
How to have a thoughtful holiday dinner conversation in the age of algorithms, binary thinking, and cancel culture.
Obama Floats ‘New Forms of [State-Controlled] Journalism’
https://armageddonprose.
video – 00:01:27 – https://x.com/i/status/
(Does anyone know of, let alone read, 1984 by George Orwell anymore? – jlr)
“Democrats Are Panicking”; Larry Klayman Warns They Realize “The Only Way To Take Control Of A Society Is To Destabilize It”
https://www.zerohedge.com/
They realize the only thing they can do is foment revolution. . .. They realize, as Karl Marx realized and Saul Alinsky realized, that the way you take control of a society is to destabilize it.
Jack Smith tapped Ted Cruz’s office phone, and guess which Obama judge signed off on it
https://www.bizpacreview.com/
… Judge James Boasberg, who was appointed in 2011 by President Barack Obama.
Mapping Where Non-Citizens Receive The Most Food Stamps
https://www.zerohedge.com/
Judge Sparks Outrage: Killer’s Courtroom Privileges
https://unitedcause.com/judge-
Judge Tony Graf issued multiple rulings that favor Tyler Robinson, the man accused of murdering conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Provo, Utah last September. Graf ruled that Robinson can wear civilian clothing during all pretrial proceedings and prohibited media from photographing or recording him in shackles. These decisions come as the case draws national attention for its apparent political motivations. The judge cited concerns about jury impartiality and security, though critics question whether such accommodations would be granted in cases involving non-political victims.
video – 00:08:04 – https://youtu.be/ZaG-p2mUdtY
video – 02:36:59 – https://youtu.be/QN4-kQDCPHc
Armed Cops Invade Over… Chips??
https://unitedcause.com/armed-
AI-powered surveillance in schools just triggered an armed police response over a bag of chips, exposing the dangers of unchecked technology and government overreach threatening American common sense.
Liberals Melt Down Over Trump Using Personal Funds to Beautify White House East Wing
https://amac.us/newsline/
…despite all those past renovations (which were at taxpayer expense), Democrats and the liberal media are now in full meltdown mode over President Donald Trump using personal donor funds to add a ballroom…
Damning new docs reveal who’s on Biden admin’s ‘enemies list,’ expose extent of FBI’s Arctic Frost
https://www.theblaze.com/news/
DoorDash Steps In: Government FAILS 40 Million on SNAP
https://unitedcause.com/
DoorDash publicly unveiled an emergency response plan designed to deliver one million free meals and waive delivery fees for 300,000 grocery orders to families at risk of losing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.
Schumer Shutdown to Cost $14+ Billion, Reduce GDP Two Percent
https://amac.us/newsline/
WSJ Claims Stand Your Ground Laws Making It ‘Easier Than Ever to Kill Someone’ and Get Away With It
https://bearingarms.com/
Giffords: Increase in Defensive Gun Uses ‘Must Be Stopped’
https://bearingarms.com/
…It’s defensive gun uses…they think must be stopped, not the actions of violent criminals that lead lawful gun owners to act in self-defense..
Hateful leftist podcaster rises in media ranks, tells Dems to get onboard or step aside
https://www.bizpacreview.com/
“So listen up, Democratic establishment: You can either jump on board with this shit or we’re coming after you in the same way that we come after MAGA. Period,”
Left-Wing Podcaster Demands Democrats Support Killing Conservatives
https://americanjournaldaily.
Key Takeaways – Left-wing podcaster Jennifer Welch openly threatened violence against conservatives and moderate Democrats – Mainstream media platforms like The View promoted Welch just months before her violent rhetoric – 53% of left-leaning Americans now say assassinating President Trump would be justified – Zero accountability or law enforcement action despite explicit calls for political violence
Leftists predictably find something to gripe about over WH Halloween decor
https://www.bizpacreview.com/
Leftist X users used the Schumer Shutdown to slam the use of the pumpkins, which, if properly prepared, can be used for food, but we all know hardly anyone is doing that. “Instead of decorating with food, how about using it to give nutrition to the needy?” “Are you going to give out those pumpkins to the people who are about to go hungry from losing their SNAP benefits”
Colorado sues Trump for decision to move Space Command, calls relocation unconstitutional
https://www.bizpacreview.com/
Obama judge trying to control Border Patrol in Chicago blocked by appeals court
https://www.bizpacreview.com/
A federal appeals court blocked an Obama-appointed judge’s demand that a top Border Patrol official report to her daily about the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Chicago.
It Has Begun – Some Crazed Lunatics Are Already Storming Into Grocery Stores And Taking Whatever They Want
https://michaeltsnyder.
video – 00:12:29 – https://youtu.be/v94urTCEphc
‘Not. One. Story.’ Liberal news outlets’ silence regarding Biden’s ‘enemies list’ is deafening
https://www.theblaze.com/news/
the liberal media has once again proven strategically incurious, evidencing the unidirectional nature of their outrage.
The ‘Arctic Frost’ Spying Scandal Gets So Much Worse, and It Leads Back to Infamous Judge Boasberg
https://redstate.com/bonchie/
“worse than Watergate,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) presented evidence that 92 different conservative organizations or individuals were targeted by Jack Smith and the Biden-era Department of Justice… infamous left-wing Judge James Boasberg was near the heart of this scandal, helping the Biden administration cover its tracks.
Pentagon readying thousands of Guard ‘reaction forces’ as U.S. mission widens
https://www.msn.com/en-us/
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Top Trump Officials Are Moving Onto Military Bases
https://www.theatlantic.com/
This story is behind a paywall
The former White House adviser Katie Miller—mother of three young children, and wife of the presidential right-hand man Stephen—walked out of her front door one Thursday morning last month and was confronted by a woman she did not know. When she told this story on Fox News, she described the encounter as a protest that crossed a line. The stranger had told Miller: “I’m watching you,” she said. This was the day after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. It also wasn’t anything new.
For weeks before Kirk’s death, activists had been protesting the Millers’ presence in north Arlington, Virginia. Someone had put up wanted posters in their neighborhood with their home address, denouncing Stephen as a Nazi who had committed “crimes against humanity.” A group called Arlington Neighbors United for Humanity warned in an Instagram post: “Your efforts to dismantle our democracy and destroy our social safety net will not be tolerated here.” The local protest became a backdrop to the Trump administration’s response to Kirk’s killing. When Miller, the architect of that response who is known for his inflammatory political rhetoric, announced a legal crackdown on liberal groups, he singled out the tactics that had victimized his family—what he called “organized campaigns of dehumanization, vilification, posting peoples’ addresses.”
Stephen Miller soon joined a growing list of senior Trump-administration political appointees—at least six by our count—living in Washington-area military housing, where they are shielded not just from potential violence but also from protest. It is an ominous marker of the nation’s polarization, to which the Trump administration has itself contributed, that some of those top public servants have felt a need to separate themselves from the public. These civilian officials can now depend on the U.S. military to augment their personal security. But so many have made the move that they are now straining the availability of housing for the nation’s top uniformed officers.
Kristi Noem, the Homeland Security secretary, moved out of her D.C. apartment building and into the home designated for the Coast Guard commandant on Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, across the river from the capital, after the Daily Mail described where she lived. Both Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth live on “Generals’ Row” at Fort McNair, an Army enclave along the Anacostia River, according to officials from the State and Defense Departments. (Rubio spent one recent evening assembling furniture that had been delivered to the house that day.) Although most Cabinet-level officials live in private houses, there is precedent for senior national-security officials, including the defense secretary, to rent homes on bases for security or convenience. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, whose family is in Washington only part-time, now shares a home on Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, a picturesque site next to Arlington National Cemetery. His roommate is another senior political appointee to the Army. (When Driscoll moved in, his washing machine wasn’t working, so for the first few weeks of his stay on base, he lugged his laundry over to the home of the Army chief of staff, General Randy George.)
Another senior White House official, whom The Atlantic is not naming because of security concerns related to a specific foreign threat, also vacated a private home for a military installation after Kirk’s murder. In that case, security officials urged the official to relocate to military housing, according to people briefed on the move, who like many others who spoke with us for this story were not authorized to do so publicly. So many senior officials have requested housing that some are now encountering a familiar D.C. problem: inadequate supply. When Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s team inquired earlier in Donald Trump’s second term about her moving onto McNair, it didn’t work out for space reasons, a former official told us.
There are scattered examples from previous administrations of Cabinet members residing on bases. Both Robert Gates, defense secretary under presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and Jim Mattis, Trump’s first Pentagon chief, lived in Navy housing at the Potomac Hill annex, a secure compound near the State Department. Mike Pompeo, CIA director and secretary of state during Trump’s first term, lived at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall. The grand homes they occupied, some of which date back more than a century, offer officials an additional layer of security and ample space for official entertaining.
But there is no record of so many political appointees living on military installations. The shift adds to the blurring of traditional boundaries between the civilian and military worlds. Trump has made the military a far more visible element of domestic politics, deploying National Guard forces to Washington, Los Angeles, and other cities run by Democrats. He has decreed that those cities should be used as “training grounds” in the battle against the “enemy within.”
Adria Lawrence, an associate professor of international studies and political science at John Hopkins University, told us that housing political advisers on bases sends a problematic message. “In a robust democracy, what you want is the military to be for the defense of the country as a whole and not just one party,” Lawrence told us.
But the threat assessment has also changed in recent years. Trump has survived two attempted assassinations; Iran has stepped up its efforts to kill federal officials; and political violence—such as the June shooting of two Democratic Minnesota lawmakers, the murder of Kirk in September, and the shooting at a Texas immigration facility two weeks later—is a real danger.
The result is straining the stock of homes typically allotted to senior uniformed officers on Washington-area bases. Some of those homes, designed for three- and four-star generals, lack sufficient bedrooms for families with young children. Many have lead-abatement issues and require significant repair. The Army notified Congress in January that it planned to spend more than $137,000 on repairs and upgrades to Hegseth’s McNair home before he moved in. Both Hegseth’s predecessor, Lloyd Austin, and Austin’s State Department counterpart, Antony Blinken, faced protesters at their northern-Virginia homes, which were not on bases. Gaza protesters who set up camp outside Blinken’s house, where he lived with his young children, spattered fake blood on cars as they passed by.
Robert Pape, a political-science professor at the University of Chicago, told us that the threat of political violence is real for figures in both major parties. He noted that Trump has revoked the security details for several of his critics and adversaries, including former Vice President Kamala Harris and John Bolton, the former national security adviser from Trump’s first term who has been the target of an Iranian assassination plot. “The correct balance would be: Trump should stop canceling the security detail of former Biden officials,” said Pape, who is also the director of the university’s Chicago Project on Security and Threats. “The issue is both sides are under heightened threat; therefore the threat to both should be taken seriously.”
In most cases, the civilian officials pay “fair market” rent for their base home, a formula determined by the military. Hegseth, in keeping with a 2008 law that aimed to make Gates’s Navy-owned housing arrangement more affordable, pays a rent equivalent to a general’s housing allowance plus 5 percent (in this case, totaling $4,655.70 a month). The moves, however, can also save the government money. In some cases, base living can reduce the cost of providing personal security to officials, one person familiar with the relocations told us, because protective teams do not need to rent a second location nearby as a staging area.
Base living—in the unofficial Trump Green Zone—has also become something of a double-edged status symbol among Trump officials. No one wants to deal with threats; both the Millers and the unnamed senior official were not looking to leave their homes. But the secure housing does confer upon the recipient a certain sheen of importance that sets them apart from all of the other officials ferried about in armored black SUVs. Administration officials now find themselves vying for the largest houses, not unlike the behind-the-scenes maneuvering that has long played out among senior military officers.
The isolation of living on a military base, at least for civilians, has also created a deeper division between Trump’s advisers and the metropolitan area where they govern. Trump-administration officials, who regularly mock the nation’s capital as a crime-ridden hellscape, now find themselves in a protected bubble, even farther removed from the city’s daily rhythms. And they are even less likely to encounter a diverse mix of voters—in their neighborhoods, on their playgrounds, in their favorite date-night haunts.
After the Kirk assassination, the Trump administration designated antifa a domestic terrorist organization, even though there is no centralized antifa organization, no organizational ties have been established to Kirk’s alleged killer, and the category of domestic terrorist organization has no meaning in federal law. The identities of the activists behind the harassment campaign that helped persuade the Millers to leave their home have not been publicly disclosed.
Arlington Neighbors United for Humanity—ANUFH, pronounced, they say, enough—has organized protests near the homes of Miller and Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought. Its website calls for “strategic, nonviolent action,” and its efforts appear to have stopped short of making any explicit threats of violence. (A representative of the group declined to comment, as did the Millers.) But the protests were designed to make the Miller family take notice. Stephen Miller has been an architect of Trump’s deportation policy, invoking a centuries-old law to send migrants to a Salvadoran prison and urging immigration-enforcement officers to aggressively find and arrest as many immigrants as possible. He regularly derides Democrats with inflammatory language, calling judicial rulings against the administration a “legal insurrection” and calling the Democratic Party “a domestic extremist organization.”
“Will we let him live in our community in peace while he TERRORIZES children and families? Not a chance,” ANUFH captioned one Instagram post in July that shows a photograph of the Millers and their children.
(The Millers have both posted family photos online that show their children’s faces.) Weeks later, the group took credit for covering the sidewalk near the Miller home with chalk messages such as Miller is preying on families, although it said in a post that it had spoken with Stephen Miller’s security beforehand to make sure that the group wasn’t violating any laws. Katie Miller responded with an Instagram post of her own, a video of the chalked words STEPHEN MILLER IS DESTROYING DEMOCRACY! being washed away with a hose. She argued in a subsequent appearance on Fox News that although the protesters may not be violent themselves, they were inciting the kind of violence that killed Kirk. “We will not back down. We will not cower in fear. We will double down. Always, For Charlie,” Katie Miller wrote, echoing her husband’s rhetoric.
“WE ARE PEACEFULLY RESISTING TYRANNY,” ANUFH responded in a post. “GUNS KILL PEOPLE. CHALK SCARES FASCISTS.”
Earlier this month, the Millers put their six-bedroom north Arlington home on the market for $3.75 million. The listing promised “a rare blend of seclusion, sophistication, and striking design.”
Nancy A. Youssef and Vivian Salama contributed reporting.
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Keep Your Head On A Swivel
https://vineofliberty.com/
The Democrats have decided to shut down the government. Federal payrolls are only partially funded during the shutdown. Amazingly enough, our Constitution says the federal government will maintain a standing army. Yet the shutdown affects their pay. Senators that are bouncing around telling us how horrible the Republicans are are still taking a paycheck. I’m unsure of how federal law enforcement is funded, but I keep reading about good enforcement actions.
SNAP, and it was gone
What isn’t funded is SNAP. All SNAP payments stop at the end of this month. You are going to have many people who are suddenly unable to just buy food. Many of them haven’t prepared for this. Many of them have children. Worse, many of these people feel entitled to take what is not theirs. Over the next few weeks, I expect to see a massive increase in crime around the country as these people decide it is easier to steal what they want than to get a job and pay for what they need.
Nov. 1st:
The Impending Food and Transportation Crisis
https://www.foodstoragemoms.
…most people go about daily life assuming that trucks, trains, and ships will continue delivering as usual, experts warn that these systems are far more fragile than they appear.
2026 Will Be the Most Consequential Since 2020
https://mailchi.mp/
I track 21 major indicators — from activist chatter on social media and nationwide organizing efforts, to funding pipelines being rebuilt and logistics being realigned — all pointing to 2026 being most consequential year for domestic unrest and political violence since 2020.
TRUMP URGES SENATE REPUBLICANS TO ENACT NUCLEAR OPTION TO END DEMOCRAT FILIBUSTER, FEDERAL SHUTDOWN
https://justthenews.com/
Trump Pulled It Off – Military to Be Paid Friday Despite Both Shutdown and Dems Refusing to Approve Exception for Military Pay
https://www.westernjournal.
Threat Intelligence Brief: Security Implications of SNAP Benefit Suspension
https://www.
SNAP program rife with fraud, disparity and health issues for participants, government agencies say
https://justthenews.com/
In the first quarter of 2024, nearly 177,000 fraud incidents were reported. The CDC noted that 2024-2025 data found that SNAP recipients continue to face disproportionately high rates of obesity and diabetes, particularly in low-income areas where participation exceeds 20% of households.
Anti-Trump Groups Are Planning To Occupy Washington DC For Months Starting On November 5th
https://michaeltsnyder.
Oh, SNAP: The Waste, The Fraud, The Envy, And You’re Not Alone
https://wilderwealthywise.com/
rcd via e-mail
This is what we are up against
This is not an exception. This is a typical low-class black woman today, wanting things for free. Notice the expensive Coach purse, the fake nails, and the car.
https://x.com/CollinRugg/
video – 00:02:57 – https://x.com/i/status/
vide0 – 00:00:59 – https://x.com/i/status/
video – 00:01:44 – https://x.com/i/status/
vide0 – 00:00:28 – https://x.com/i/status/
Moynihan Saw This SNAP Lady Coming From 60 Years Away!
https://libsarenuts.substack.
…Sen. Moynihan’s report and accompanying remarks from over SIXTY years ago! Sixty years ago, LBJ’s assistant secretary of labor, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, saw this lady coming. The future US Senator from New York issued a report in 1965 that predicted legions of such people.
The Negro Family: The Case for National Action – The principal author was Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel Patrick Moynihan,
https://www.dol.gov/general/
U.S. District Court Judge John McConnell, an Obama appointee, blocked the Trump administration from cutting off SNAP benefits, orders Trump admin to use emergency funds to pay SNAP benefits amid shutdown
https://justthenews.com/
“SNAP benefits have never, until now, been terminated,” U.S. District Judge John McConnell said
***(What funds will U.S. District Judge John McConnell tell the government to use when that fund is exausted and the shut down continues, or if a hurricaine hits FLA, or NOLA again and there is no emergency funds to use – jlr)
Imperial Judiciary: Judges in 2 Separate Cases Order Trump Admin. to Use SNAP Contingency Funds
https://redstate.com/smoosieq/
25 states plus the District of Columbia filed suit in (where else?) Massachusetts, asserting, “on information and belief,” that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) “has funds available to it that are sufficient to fund all, or at least a substantial portion, of November SNAP benefits.” (And when that money is gone what funds, just sitting there, will the the judiciary ORDER the government to use funds used to pay Congress Critters next? – jlr)
Judges Order Trump Admin to Fund SNAP — There’s Just One Problem
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/
video – oo:03:10 – https://twitter.com/i/status/
A U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee just opened the otrangest ooor – without appearing to notice
https://chrisbray.substack.
An order today from a federal judge in Massachusetts requires the Trump administration to pay SNAP benefits even though Congress hasn’t funded the current operation of the program…Judge Indira Talwani concludes that people will be harmed if SNAP benefits are not provided, and Congress previously appropriated contingency funds for emergencies in the SNAP program, so there’s no need for current appropriations — the executive branch must use emergency and contingency funds to pay for current operations despite the absence of current appropriations…If that door is open, at least try to walk through it. The courts are demanding that the Executive Branch spend available money without worrying about current congressional appropriations for federal operations. Take them up on it, and see how committed they are to the principle.
Trump signals he will fund SNAP benefits after getting further clarification from courts
https://justthenews.com/
Trump posted on Truth Social that his government lawyers do not believe they can legally fund the program with the money they have currently available and will seek more guidance from the judicial system.
Judges rule that food stamp benefits cannot be suspended over shutdown — and Trump responds
https://www.theblaze.com/news/
“If you use SNAP benefits, call the Senate Democrats, and tell them to reopen the Government, NOW!”
This is very old and very ignored by Pols & Media.
https://miguelgg.substack.com/
Ladies and gents, we are talking about miscreants that prostitute themselves and their kids to maintain a lifestyle at taxpayers’ expense. They do not think twice about defrauding you or me as long as they can get the latest I-Phone and the acrylics at the end of their fingers. And there is 40 million of them sucking at your wallet right now.
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Congressional Feeding Trough Remains Open and Well-Stocked Despite Government Shutdown
https://armageddonprose.
What they rarely, if ever, mention is that their paychecks arrive regardless of whether the government gets shut down or not, or for how long.
President Trump and First Lady Host White House Halloween, Displaying Warmth to Children of Our Heroes
https://americanjournaldaily.
I just checked CNN, MSNBC, and NBC. They’re not covering this. First Lady Melania Trump just comforted a little girl in tears frightened by Halloween decorations. Can you imagine how much press this would’ve gotten if it was Michelle?
Civilians Are Now Impersonating ICE Agents, and Nothing Good Can Come of It
https://redstate.com/
There are indications that leftists in opposition to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are impersonating ICE officers, presumably to interfere with legitimate ICE operations.
Even Fellow Liberal Supreme Court Justices Are Getting Fed Up with Ketanji Brown Jackson
https://www.westernjournal.
Michael Snyder is a professional “Gloomy Gus”, it is his stock in trade…and oh yes he is trying to sell his apocalyptic books
57 Percent Of Americans Expect The Economy To Get Even Worse Than It Is Right Now
https://michaeltsnyder.
Corrupt Jack Smith Spied on Over 400 Republicans, ‘Entire Republican Political Apparatus’
https://gellerreport.com/2025/
New Arctic Frost whistleblower documents show that the corrupt Biden FBI subpoenaed the bank records, donor lists, and emails of nearly every major conservative organization and leader in the country, including Donald Trump’s campaign, the RNC, Conservative Partnership Institute, Save America PAC, America First Policy Institute, and even MyPillow.
Democrats’ Shutdown Antics Backfire Again – They’re Now Getting Called Out by Major Airlines
https://www.westernjournal.
An Unstated Objective for Dems’ Prolonged Shutdown in Relation to Midterms May Have Just Been Revealed
https://www.westernjournal.
PATEL SAYS FBI ARRESTED MULTIPLE SUBJECTS IN POTENTIAL TERROR PLOT IN MICHIGAN
https://justthenews.com/
“This morning the FBI thwarted a potential terrorist attack and arrested multiple subjects in Michigan who were allegedly plotting a violent attack over Halloween weekend,”
FBI Thwarts ‘Potential’ Halloween Weekend Terror Attack – Multiple ‘Subjects’ Arrested
https://www.westernjournal.
Dem mayor hopeful pledges allegiance to his country. Hint, it’s NOT America
https://www.bizpacreview.com/
During a campaign rally on Aug. 18, Fateh was seen waving a Somali flag, speaking in Somali, playing Somali music, and seemingly pledging his loyalty to Somalia — all while campaigning for a position as the proud mayor of an American city.
Nineteen states are ready to ban the time change. Here’s what would need to happen first.
https://www.usatoday.com/
**U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly blocks Trump from requiring Americans to provide proof of citizenship to vote
https://justthenews.com/
Multiple lawsuits have been filed to block different aspects of the March executive order, including a part that bars states from counting mail-in ballots received after Election Day.
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California Calexit Initiative Gains New Approval for Signatures
https://texianpartisan.com/
Matt Thorsen Signs Texas First Pledge for House District 67
https://texianpartisan.com/
Martin Padeti Signs Texas First Pledge for Denton County Justice of the Peace
https://texianpartisan.com/
New Texas GOP Platform Pushes for State Sovereignty, Independence Referendum
https://texianpartisan.com/
Three More Counties Step Forward in Fight for Texas Independence
https://texianpartisan.com/
Nov. 2/3rd:
Benny Johnson’s SNAP Fix: Require Every Recipient To Reapply And Prove U.S. Citizenship
https://www.zerohedge.com/
video – 00:00:47 – https://x.com/i/status/
video – 00:01:47 – https://twitter.com/i/status/
Crazy People Are Already Shoplifting Grocery Stores And Taking Whatever They Want
Grocery shoplifting is exploding across America and it’s getting worse every day…stores being ransacked…families being robbed in parking lots, the chaos is escalating fast…everyone ends up paying for it. Higher grocery prices, locked-up products, eliminated self-checkout, and increased surveillance… ordinary citizens are arming themselves just to buy groceries
video – 00:25:04 – https://youtu.be/RwXdbwauDc4
Government Shutdown And Snap Benefits
https://www.foodstoragemoms.
I conducted extensive research on the government shutdown and SNAP benefits. Here’s a breakdown of how the current federal government shutdown is affecting the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and what it means for beneficiaries.
Mew, mew, mew!
https://thelawdogfiles.
We have to pump the brakes on the U.S. Money Train. Not “want to” — “have to”.
When charity – Becomes entitlement
https://thelawdogfiles.
SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) = the name was changed to “avoid the stigma” associated with using food stamps.
(Living down to stereotype – jlr)
Sisters’ theft of lobsters, ribeyes, and truffle butter explodes into checkout chaos and racial-slur rampage, cops say
https://www.theblaze.com/news/
Two sisters attempted to steal luxury food items from a grocery store in Massachusetts last weekend — but the pair exploded when store employees confronted them about the stolen goods, according to police. ‘They screamed and directed racial and demeaning words at [a store employee]. Those words included “p***y and [the N-word],” which were loud enough for everyone in the front of the store to hear, causing an offensive condition without a legitimate purpose.’
video – 00:01:31 – https://youtu.be/D_V_s_WtHc0
Man Allegedly Stabs 2 Teens with a Fork Mid-Flight, Turns Out He’s an Illegal Alien Living in Chicago
https://www.westernjournal.
That Lebanese Doctor the Trump Admin. Sent Packing Got Some Bad News on Friday
https://redstate.com/smoosieq/
Bessent Says SNAP Relief ‘Could Be’ Coming Soon As Democrats Continue to Put Politics Over People
https://redstate.com/
Unprecedential
https://chrisbray.substack.
never before in history has state violence been associated with efforts against drug cartels
The Trump administration is using lethal strikes against drug cartel boats in the Caribbean, and — as always — journalists are quite confident that nothing like this has ever happened before. He’s murdering drugrunners, executing them without due process, in an unprecedented use of military force! I could show you a dozen recent examples of this argument, but — as always — the dumbest, laziest example could come from just one source. We’re addicted to hysteria, and it prevents meaningful debate. Maybe that’s the point of it.
All Over America, Chaos Is Erupting In The Streets
https://michaeltsnyder.
(Michael Snyder is a professional doom and gloom sayer, and he is trying to sell his apocalyptic/post-apocalyptic books – jlr)
Democrats Will End Their Govt Shutdown Until After Election Day
https://gellerreport.com/2025/
Democrats are deliberately holding the nation hostage—inflicting pain for ordinary Americans in hopes voters blame Republicans on Election Day. It’s not governance, it’s a political hostage game. Who, in their right mind, would vote for them?
(Liberalism is a Mental Disease, so Liberals are NOT in their right minds – jlr)
Written recipe for black powder is verbotten! (U.K again)
https://miguelgg.substack.com/
https://www.counterterrorism.
Revenge of the Dumbphone: Why Minimalist Phones Are Making a Comeback
https://www.theepochtimes.com/
People are seeking devices that help them unplug, redefining what ‘connected’ really means.
Chicago Cops Ignore the Law, Arrest Legal Gun Owners
https://reason.com/2025/11/03/
Once we let our rights become privileges, government officials can revoke them on a whim.
Race, Culture, IQ, and Truth
https://wilderwealthywise.com/
Trump-Appointed Prosecutor Defies Judge’s ‘Unlawful Appointment’ Ruling, Will Continue Duties
https://americanjournaldaily.
Daily Mail: Charlie Kirk Killed With ‘Sniper Rifle’
https://bearingarms.com/
We’ve long seen the games anti-gunners play with various firearms. Privately made guns are “ghost guns.” Modern sporting rifles are “assault weapons,” or even worse, “battlefield weapons of war.” And, we’ve long known that when they decide to come for our hunting rifles, it won’t be framed that way. They’ll call them “sniper rifles.”… Except he wasn’t. He was shot by an antique milsurp bolt-action rifle that’s used by hunters all across the nation and has been for decades. It’s not a sniper rifle at all…“The media couldn’t blame Kirk’s murder on a so-called ‘assault rifle,’ so they’re doing the next worst thing,” Gottlieb added. “They’ve slapped a defamatory label on commonly-owned hunting rifles, hoping to make them the new bogeyman for the gun ban lobby… the framing of bolt-action hunting rifles as “sniper rifles” was something we all knew was coming. It’s a necessary precursor toward restricting these firearms as heavily as they’re trying to do with your average AR-15. Before you can ban it, you have to demonize it, which is where throwing “sniper rifle” into the mix comes in.
A little humor…To start the week!
https://oldnfo.substack.com/p/
The Nightmare Is Over: Supreme Court Outlaws Candy Corn
https://babylonbee.com/news/
Nov. 4th:
Nov. 5th:
ABSOLUTE truth –
Now the exodus begins – the Jews, Wall Street, the police, and anyone with money will all leave NYC ASAP
And criminal aliens, Muslims, and the like will flock to NYC – anyone remember the 1st “Escape from NYC” movie and what NYC was depicted as?
Sorry this one took a couple of weeks. It’s been busy here. Things are starting to settle down, though. Of course, that also means it’s almost National Novel Writing Month, and I’m going to be writing a flurry of words (50,000+ in 30 days), but I’m not going to think about that for a bit. LOL… We left off Heinlein’s list about here:
Take orders. You need to be able to take orders because no matter how “high up” you are on any particular totem pole, at some point you’re going to run into someone who’s higher than you. This is because we’re not ever going to be experts at everything. We each spend time with people who are better at something than we are, and when those people are in charge, you must be able to do what you’re told. But as any American soldier will tell you, it isn’t that simple (even though it sort of is). Per the Uniform Code of Military Justice, soldiers are only required to obey LAWFUL orders. Our soldiers are given more latitude as to what’s lawful and what’s not, while still being held to an extremely high standard (and getting higher, thanks Pete!). All of our soldiers are expected to be thinking people. Blind adherence is not useful. But the ability to continue to take orders, even when things are tough, even when you’re shitting your pants, even when you’re scared, is absolutely necessary. That’s also true of those of us NOT soldiers, though perhaps to a slightly lower level. As non-combatants, even if we end up as guerrilla fighters, we just need to be able to follow orders at a competent level. You need to recognize when someone knows more than you do, and be able to take a back-seat for a bit.
Give orders. There will be a moment when YOU are the expert, the leader, the person in charge. It might be on purpose, and it might be by accident, but regardless, you must be prepared to give orders. More than that, you may have to give orders that you know damn well will end up with someone hurt (physically or emotionally), or worse, dead. You need to be prepared for whatever outcome happens when you give those orders. You have to be ready to give them decisively, with authority, and with strength of belief.
Cooperate. That’s a tough one, hm? Yes, you might have to cooperate with people who don’t share your world view. You might have to work with liberals and Democrats. But it CAN be done. And you must know both how to, and when to. Sometimes, it’s just going to be an easy choice. Groups often have better survivability options than singletons. It’s a skill we’re horribly underdeveloped in, in my very strong opinion. When was the last time you reached out to someone you disagree with, to cooperate? Maybe it’s time. Practice, because it’s important. And just in case someone wants to leap to conclusions, no, this doesn’t mean you have to “give in and open the government” or anything like that. I’m talking small scale here. Neighbors. Friends of friends. Local government maybe.
It is hard to get past the masked kid arguing, but Charlie just does his thing.
I think Charlie Kirk would agree with one of the lesser-known heroes of the American Revolution
“I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.” – Nathan Hale, Sept. 22, 1776
in no particular order
Utah officials deliver update on Charlie Kirk assassination investigation, security at event – by Cooper Williamson, 10Sep2025
https://www.theblaze.com/news/
Charlie Kirk assassination witness says shot did not come from the crowd – by Andrew Chapa, 10 sept2025
https://www.theblaze.com/news/
‘You woke us the f**k up!’ Greg Gutfeld fires off message on Fox News after assassination of Charlie Kirk – by Carlos Garcia, 10Sept2025
https://www.theblaze.com/news/
Leftists show their true colors after Charlie Kirk is shot — and it’s absolutely sickening – byChris Enloe, 10Sept2025
https://www.theblaze.com/news/
The Morning Briefing: Assassination and the Watershed Radicalization of the American Right – by Stephen Kruiser, 11Sep2025
https://pjmedia.com/stephen-
Trump Vows to Hunt Down Everyone Involved in Charlie Kirk’s Assassination – by Katie Pavlich 10Sep2025
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/
The NYT’s Obituary for Charlie Kirk Is an Absolute Disgrace – by Matt Vespa, 11Sep2025
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/
They Murdered Charlie Kirk and They Must Pay – by Kurt Schlichter, 10Sep2025
https://townhall.com/
Did TMZ Staffers Cheer About Charlie Kirk’s Assassination? The Video Is Damning. – by Matt Vespa, 11Sep2025
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/
After Charlie Kirk Was Assassinated, Dems Kept Saying This Phrase. It Was a Little Jarring. – by Matt Vespa, 11Sep2025
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/
What Comes After Charlie Kirk’s Assassination An anti-revolutionary’s death brings a new reckoning – byBen Domenech, 11Sep2025
https://thetransom.com/p/what-
“Dark Moment For America” – Trump Addresses The Nation After Kirk Assassination – by Tyler Durden, 11Sep2025
https://www.zerohedge.com/
Charlie Kirk’s blood is on the left’s hands – by Maureen Steele, 11Sep2025
https://www.bizpacreview.com/
Two days before he was killed, CNN went on the offensive against Charlie Kirk – by Vivek Saxena, 11Sep2025
https://www.bizpacreview.com/
Obama actually says we have no idea what motivation was for Charlie Kirk assassination – by Mariane Angela, 11Sep2025
https://www.bizpacreview.com/
Kirk Assassination Police Audio Leaks, Contains First Full Description of Suspected Killer Along With Exact Location –
By C. Douglas Golden, 11 sep2025
https://www.westernjournal.
What happens after Charlie Kirk? – The killing of a political commentator may mark the moment America stopped being insulated from the grip of ideological violence. – by Zahra Sethna and Stephen Mostad ,11Sep2025
https://www.collapselife.com/
Law Enforcement Announces ‘Breakthroughs’ in Charlie Kirk Investigation – by Jack Davis, 11Sep2025
Internal Memo Reveals New Details About Weapon Used in Kirk Assassination, Engravings on Recovered Rounds – by Matt Margolis, 11Sep2025
“ATF and other law-enforcement located an older model imported Mauser .30-06 caliber bolt action rifle wrapped in a towel in a wooded area near the campus. The location of the firearm appears to match the suspect’s route of travel.” “The spent cartridge was still chambered in addition to three unspent rounds at the top fed magazine. All cartridges have engraved wording on them, expressing transgender and anti-fascist ideology.”
Why Charlie Kirk’s assassination will change us in ways this generation has never seen – by Christopher Bedford, 11Sep2025
September keeps smelling of death.- by Miguel Gonzalez, 11Sep2025
https://miguelgg.substack.com/
Twenty four years ago, we were attacked and we got to witness the enemies of our country dance and pass celebratory sweet pastries in the Middle east.
Yesterday we were attacked once again, but the dancing and celebration was done by people inside our country.
We are at war once again.
Memes by Themes #20: The Intellimafia – by Margaret Anna Alice, 11Sep2025
https://margaretannaalice.
The Morning Briefing: Assassination and the Watershed Radicalization of the American Right – by Stephen Kruiser, 11Sept2025
https://pjmedia.com/stephen-
Trump Vows to Hunt Down Everyone Involved in Charlie Kirk’s Assassination – by Katie Pavlich 10sept2025
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/
Leftists and Muslims Celebrate Kirk Assassination – by Pamela Geller, 10Sep2025
https://gellerreport.com/2025/
ASSASSINATED: The Great Charlie Kirk Shot Dead – by Pamela Geller, 10Sep2025
https://gellerreport.com/2025/
Two days before he was killed, CNN went on the offensive against Charlie Kirk – by Vivek Saxena, 11Sep2025
https://www.bizpacreview.com/
Utah Gov Spencer Cox reminds America that the the state still has death penalty in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination –
by Harold Hutchison, 11Sep2025
https://www.bizpacreview.com/
Obama actually says we have no idea what motivation was for Charlie Kirk assassination – by Mariane Angela, 11Sep2025
https://www.bizpacreview.com/
What happens after Charlie Kirk? – The killing of a political commentator may mark the moment America stopped being insulated from the grip of ideological violence. – by Zahra Sethna and Stephen Mostad ,11Sep2025
https://www.collapselife.com/
September keeps smelling of death.- by Miguel Gonzalez, 11Sep2025
https://miguelgg.substack.com/
Witnesses say ‘there was not enough security’ prior to horrific Charlie Kirk assassination by Andrew Chapados & Rebeka Zeljko, 11Sep2025
https://www.theblaze.com/news/
The Intent of the Charlie Kirk Assassination Continues With the Media’s Reaction: They Demand Our Silence By Brad Slager, 11Sep2025
https://redstate.com/
The paths forward – Responding to the assassination of Charlie Kirk – by Surak, 11Sep2025
https://surak.substack.com/p/
Where are the riots, like after the drug overdose death of George Floyd? An assassin destroyed Charlie Kirk’s jugular vein while he was on a university campus answering a question regarding transgender ultraviolence. The ammunition had written messages on it supporting transgender ultraviolence. We have been warned sternly by the “experts” about the “fascist” nature of America’s Christian majority, yet for some reason, those Christians are going about in quiet prayer.
Dana Loesch: ‘Restorative Justice’ Killed Ukrainian Refugee – By Tom Knighton, 11Sep2025
https://bearingarms.com/
but wait – there’s more
Judge’s ‘promise’ let career criminal walk free to butcher Ukrainian refugee after his MOM said he should be locked up
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/
Statement on the Assassination of Charlie Kirk – by Daniel Miller, 10Sep2025
https://texianpartisan.com/
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Via a Mormon blog I follow – 11Sep2025
I hope I’m wrong.
But tonight feels like some sort of invisible line has been crossed that we didn’t even know was there. The last time I felt like this was 9/11 when it was clear, without knowing the how and the what, that the world was about to change forever.
Like the rules of the game had been permanently altered and there was simply no going to back to the innocent, peaceful past.
I didn’t feel like this when an attempt was made on President Trump’s life. If I had to rationalise why I didn’t, I guess it’s because several US Presidents have been shot at and even assassinated. Somehow it was within the realms of the possible, no matter how awful.
But to murder a young father simply for doing debates and mobilising young people to vote for a party that represents half of America? This is something else.
Charlie’s death is a tragedy for his wife, his children and his family. I don’t pray often. I am praying for them tonight.
But I fear his murder will be a tragedy for all of us in ways we will only understand as time unfolds.
I hope I’m wrong. (Konstantin Kisin)
The entire Right has to band together. Enough of this in-fighting bullsh@t. We are up against demonic forces from the pit of Hell. They’re killing us in our churches. They tried to kill our president. They killed Charlie, one of our greatest advocates. Put the personal squabbles aside. Now’s not the time. This is existential. A fight for our own existence and the existence of our country. (Matt Walsh)
Like all of you, I am utterly stunned and heartbroken and sick to my soul today. It is unimaginable to write these words. I met Charlie Kirk when he was 18 years old, a young man so eager and determined that I immediately turned to a friend and said, “That kid is going to be the head of the RNC one day.” Charlie became even bigger and more important than that. It was a privilege to watch this principled man stand up for his beliefs and create the single most important conservative political organization in America. But more importantly, Charlie was a good man, a man who believed in right and wrong, who stood by his Biblical values. All of us will miss him, and I can’t imagine the pain of his beautiful young family, and we must all pray for them. And we must pick up the baton where Charlie left it, fighting for the things he believed in so passionately. And we must fight for a better America – an America where good people can speak truth and debate passionately without fear of a bullet. I weep for Charlie’s family, and I weep for my country today. (Ben Shapiro)
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Jasmine Crockett’s Stance on Police Troubling Considering her Stance on 2A
https://bearingarms.com/
“Law enforcement isn’t to PREVENT crime! Law enforcement solves crime, okay? That is what they are supposed to do.”
(Translation: the police aren’t there to protect you, they are there to draw the chalk outline of the dead person. You can defend yourself to decide who is in the chalk outline. – jlr)
You may think I’m rude, But I don’t care. – by Ian, 07Sep2025
https://thelawdogfiles.substac
Civil War 2.0 Weather Report: Mass Deportation Is The Moderate Position – by John Wilder, 08Sept2025
https://wilderwealthywise.com/
The Wilder Countdown to Civil War II™.
1) Things are going well.
2) People begin to create groups.
3) People begin to look for preferential treatment.
4) Opposing ideology to the prevailing civic ideology is introduced and spread.
5) Those who have an opposing ideology are considered evil.
6) People actively avoid being near those of opposing ideology. Might move from communities or states just because of ideology.
7) Common violence. Organized violence is occurring monthly.
* 8) Common violence that is generally deemed by governmental authorities as justified based on ideology.
9) Opposing sides develop governing/war structures. Just in case.
10)Open War.
* where we are now
I have kept the Clock O’Doom to 8., given the open support of criminality in Blue cities becoming clearer by the day with their own words. They feel the violence in Chicago and Baltimore and New York and Los Angeles is justified
Things Are Not Alright – By John Wilder, 10Sep2025
https://wilderwealthywise.com/
3 strikes and you need to be out – career criminality and the social contract – by el gato malo, 08Sep2025
https://boriquagato.substack.c
Why the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Is Fundamental – By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., 08Sep2025
https://www.lewrockwell.com/20
Submit or Die. – A Liberal view of what to do with others. – by Miguel Gonzalez, 08Sep2025
https://miguelgg.substack.com/
(WATCH the videos – they want you DEAD – They will try to kill you. – Believe what they are telling you, it is nolonger just hysterical words – whitness the increase in mass shootings done by TDS diven liberal leftis – jlr)
College Students Across the Political Spectrum Support Shouting Down Opponents by J.D. Tuccille, 08Sep2025
https://reason.com/2025/09/08/
The Guardian Freaks Over GOA’s Assault on NFA – By Tom Knighton,08Sep2025
https://bearingarms.com/tomkni
Imam Warns Store Owners To Stop Selling Pork, Alcohol, Lottery Tickets, Threatens Consequences – By Pamela Geller, 08Sep2025
https://gellerreport.com/2025/
A Muslim iman in Houston, Texas is warning store owners there that they have 30 days to stop selling alcohol and pork, or face repercussions.
No coverage from the sharia-compliant media, of course.
“We Have To Respond… We Have To Be Vicious”: Trump Rages After Charlotte Subway Stabbing – by Tyler Durden, 09Sep2025
https://www.zerohedge.com/poli
Trump Calls for Death Penalty After Ukrainian Refugee Murdered on Charlotte Train by Repeat Offender by By Noah Stanton 10Sep2025
https://istandforfreedom.com/t
The federal government is now pursuing charges that make Brown eligible for execution. The Department of Justice has classified this as an act causing death on a mass transportation system—terrorism charges, essentially.
Magistrate Teresa Stokes Must Be Removed and Decarlos Brown Needs to Die – You won’t believe Stokes’ conflict of interest by Susan Daniels, 10Sep2025
https://susandaniels.substack.
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Charlie Kirk Shot During Event in Utah, in Critical Condition – by Matt Margolis, 10Sep2025
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margo
(see #8 on Wilder’s CW2 time line above – jlr)(video – 00:00:05 – https://x.com/i/status/1965853
The video has been 404 holed @1951CDT – Hmm…this page doesn’t exist. Try searching for something else.
MSM Reactions to Charlie Kirk Shooting Are as Sick as You’d Expect – by Matt Margolis, 10Sep2025
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margo
(UnFB – jlr)
Charlie Kirk Dead at Age 31 After Being Shot at Event
https://www.westernjournal.com
I want you angry.- And I want them afraid enough to seek political refuge in Canada – by Miguel Gonzalez – 10Sep2025
https://miguelgg.substack.com/
MSNBC Makes Multiple Disgusting Claims in Immediate Aftermath of Charlie Kirk Shooting
https://www.westernjournal.com
They’ve Got the Suspected Shooter – FBI Dir. Kash Patel Makes Announcement to the Nation
https://www.westernjournal.com
Watch: House Democrats Loudly Object to Moment of Prayer for Charlie Kirk
https://www.westernjournal.com
video – 00:00:56 – https://twitter.com/i/status/1
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The Weatherman: Some Brief Thoughts – by Chris Bray, 10Sep2025
https://chrisbray.substack.com
First, the murder of Charlie Kirk is just the next level up the behavioral chain from the way Robert F. Kennedy was just treated in front of a Senate committee. (See #8 of The Wilder Countdown to Civil War II™. above)
Second, the transition to radical violence is a reflection of the events that followed the death of the radical dream of the 1960s New Left. After the hippies, the Weatherman and the Symbionese Liberation Army.
I know this message will seem strange in this moment, but the violent lashing out isn’t a sign of strength. It’s the sign of cultural death, and evidence that the people who want to destroy disagreement are deeply, painfully aware that they cannot convince.
There will be more infliction of pain as they face that collapse.
We’ll be back to regular postings tomorrow. Tuesday Tunes, then “Envy” and “Show Me Your Papers.”
In the best of all worlds, every server would have two interfaces (NIC) with two ports cross-connected to two switches.
Each switch would be cross-connected to their upstream switch and so forth until you reach your redundant gateways.
The problem with this setup is that you can end up with loops that will take that part of the network down.
This means that switches need to be smart enough to keep that from happening. And you have to configure your network to allow for all those cross connections.
This means that a room will have three subnets. Primary 1, Primary 2, and Management. The switch needs to have routing capability. Then you use a routing protocol like OSPF to make magic happen.
OSPF sends out routing information often. Timers are measured in seconds, not minutes. This allows every router/switch to pick the best path at that instant.
Last week I determined that there was a problem with uplink speeds to the network. I was getting maybe a hundredth of what I should have been observing. This became obvious when I was attempting some bandwidth tests of client configurations.
So we start the process of elimination. The first thing to eliminate is the provider network. They could not provide a remote speed test because I was using my router; therefore, it required a technician to be dispatched.
The goal was to eliminate any questions regarding their side of the “demarc,” or demarcation.
The demarc is the separation of responsibility between the provider and the customer. Everything on their side of the demarc is their responsibility; everything on my side is my responsibility.
In my installation the demarc is the Optical Network Terminator (ONT). The ONT is a fiber modem; it’s not really, but it works for our purposes.
The provider prefers to provide the ONT, the router/access point/switch/VoIP gizmo. If they provide that gizmo, they move the demarc to that gizmo.
My issue is that the gizmo in question is always home quality, never better. My router is just a router. It has two 2.5 Gbit Ethernet ports and two 10 Gbit SFP ports. It has a 60 Gbit internal bus and provides DHCP, DNS, Proxy, port forwarding, and many other professional features. My access points are on a controller that monitors the power usage and adjusts the power of each access point to produce the best coverage. This allows me to have multiple Wireless Access Points (WAP) within the house and grounds that don’t interfere with each other.
Better yet, as you move from place to place, your device will seamlessly transfer to different WAPs as needed, without getting new IP addresses.
Regardless, my equipment is much better than what they provide.
We tested from the ONT and got good upload and download speeds. A step in the correct direction.
The next test was from the router. This gave me acceptable speeds, much better than 0.260 Gbit.
This left SFP modules, SFP sockets, and fiber. Being lazy, I start with SFP modules. Switching modules doesn’t help. Next I swapped the cables. Finally, I swapped the router ports.
Nothing fixed it. I currently believe that the SFP port/slot on the router has an issue.
Since I had a second switch, I could have used that; instead, I decided on a network upgrade.
The new switch was configured. It was attached to the second SFP port on the router. All the management networks and the DMZ network were attached to it. Removed from primary (router1). Then router2 was cross connected with router1 via a Direct Attach Connector (DAC). A DAC is a wire with module connectors on both ends. They are cheaper than fiber plus two modules and will run at very high speeds. They are the connector of choice for SFP to SFP within a meter or so with no sharp bends.
It took way too much time to get everything configured correctly. Mostly because I just didn’t have all the pieces correctly configured.
My network map was wrong. I had 192.168.99.x/24 allocated to P2P connections. It isn’t allocated to P2P. It is allocated to a remote subnet that is part of the local network via a VPN. Oops!
One that was taken care of, I had working connections between the gateway and both routers. But the routers would not talk to each other.
Turns out that I had the DAC plugged into the wrong slot. Once I had it in the correct slot with the correct media type, everything just started working.
I now have a cleaner network, with more options, and better bandwidth than ever before. It is working as I anticipated. It just took way too long to accomplish.
For those of you who live in the area, Chris and I will be up at the fort today, and I will be there tomorrow as well. He will be doing woodworking, and I am doing a project on fry bread today. Tomorrow I am teaching bread baking to a class of six. I hope to see you there!