Day: September 12, 2013

Notes from JWR:

Jubilant news spread across the Internet on Wednesday morning, proclaiming the historic recall of two anti-gun Colorado legislators, one of whom was the President of the State Senate, John Morse. These recalls were significant, and could foreshadow a conservative pro-gun backlash in the November midterm elections. Former Senator Morse was quick to downplay the news and characterize his recall “purely symbolic.” (Reader George D. wrote to mention this and asked: “Symbolic? Symbolic of what? How about symbolic of ‘You’re fired, you anti-Constitutional bas***d!’”) It is notable that leftist Former Senator Angela Giron “represented” a Democrat party stronghold district in the …


Protection from Radioactive Fallout by Tennessean

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Part One About me: I’m a retired Ph.D. biochemist who has worked with beta emitters in the laboratory.  I’ve no financial interest in any of the firms or products mentioned below. This post is dedicated to the late Cresson Kearny and his wonderful hard work in preparing the most essential book Nuclear War Survival Skills available at www.beprepared.com and other sources.   Dr. Stephen Hawking was once told by his publisher that for every equation he placed in his book the readership would drop by half.  Dear reader the author will harass you with only three equations.  The late great thermodynamicist  …


Letter Re: Pre-1899 Antique Gun Clarifications

Hi James, I was just looking at your FAQ article about antique firearms. Apparently, there has been some controversy over the dates of manufacture of some Winchester firearms. The discovery of so called Polishing Room Records have dates of “manufacture” which apparently disagree with the previously established “Madis” dates of manufacture. I was just wondering what your take is on this subject. Also, I’ve been trying to find out if there is any logical reason for selecting December 31, 1898 as the Antique firearms cutoff date. Did someone just arbitrarily pick this date? I know that there were cartridge ammunition …


Economics and Investing:

TANSTAAFL, Butter and Silver A new digital ecology is evolving, and humans are being left behind Items from The Economatrix: The Number Of Private Sector Jobs Fell By 278,000 Last Month But The Economy Is Getting Better? Jobs Figure:  Worse Than The Headline Number COMEX Default Risk As Gold Inventories Plummet 36%


Odds ‘n Sods:

G.G. sent: In Mexico, self-defense groups battle a cartel. [JWR’s Comment: I wonder if the photographer realized that the “meanacing”-looking scoped AR in the foreground was a .22 rimfire? Take a close look at the magazine.]    o o o Number of People Who Showed Up For “Million Muslim March” . . . 21. (Perhaps they heard that there would be 2 million bikers coming into town.)    o o o Carol J. mentioned: Fabric coating thwarts detection by night-vision devices. “The coating combines a squid protein, reflectin, plus graphene.”    o o o Over at Frank and Fern’s blog: …


Jim’s Quote of the Day:

“… the president was on the televisor last night urging us to memorialize those who were murdered on this day twelve years ago by flying air strikes in support of the faction that murdered them. Whatever else may be said, that took an amazing level of chutzpah, to call on a nation to go to war in support of terrorists the night before going to lay a wreath at a ceremony commemorating their victims.” – Tamara, Editor of the View From The Porch blog