Casey in Arizona sent a link to a fairly scientific study on firearms “stopping” power that is sure to generate some controversy: An Alternate Look at Handgun Stopping Power. If nothing else, it confirms my long-held belief that it is the man behind the gun that counts. Perfect practice makes perfect.
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Dust Bowl II? Oklahoma hit by relentless heatwave.
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Is there a Nobel War Prize? A mostly distaff and svært-liberal Nobel Peace Prize committee hurriedly and presumptuously nominated President Barrack Hussein Obama after he’d been in office for only nine days. For cryin’ out loud, it takes longer than that to get the Army Service Ribbon. But now, after two years and three wars, shouldn’t they instead give him a War Prize? Alfred Nobel (the inventor of dynamite) intended his prize for peacemakers, but as Commander in Chief, BHO has certainly used more than his share of high explosives.
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F.G. sent this: Frigid North Dakota Is a Hot Draw For Out-of-State College Students. Notice a correlation with the American Redoubt states and this map?
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SurvivalBlog’s Editor At Large Michael Z. Williamson sent this: Local Midway[Georgia] Police Shut Down Girls’ Lemonade Stand. Mike’s comment: “Good to know your civil servants care about what’s really important, to protect me from the predations of young girls with lemonade.”