From the Army, the National Guard, or even from some of your local cops when/if the Revolution comes…

Who thinks that those “Thermal Blankets” marketed by Max Tactical and others to those Militia minded folks who just don’t understand FLIR….

I urge you to buy one of these add ons to your smartphone and learn just what FLIR can do…

You can see what a $250 thermal imager can do (IOS version available here)

….Now think about what the military has available. I worked with it 25 years ago, and it was bad-ass then. You could, under the right conditions, see a person’s BREATH from a couple hundred yards away. And that was 25+ years ago.

You’ll realize that your tactics will have to change…..drastically.

So I’ve been a customer of Amazon’s for …a long time..longer than some of you have likely been out of high school (hell, longer than I was IN high school)….. I dislike their founders politics, but I do like their service enough to overcome that….

Along comes the smartphone. And the Amazon App…. A very handy tool. I can scan any barcode and see what the price is on Amazon compared to the price in the store right there IN THE STORE. (I especially like to check prices on books and music in Amazon while IN BARNES AND NOBLE!)….track purchases and such right there on the magic elf box in my hand….I even use it to BUY stuff once in a while…(OK, I use the amazon app to buy a LOT of shit…)

3 times, however,this year, I have turned the preference to “Leave me alone, Damnit” for the “Hey! let’s send suggestions to B for stuff he might like or has previously bought!” (“Buy it again!”….even though the suggestions are likely one-off purchases like a stethescope). and clogging my notifications bar on my Android phone….and setting an alert which sounds just like my voice mail notification….which wakes me up in the middle of the night on the days that I am on call…  And pisses me off when it is a false alarm….Now, I think that having the default be “on” for these suggestive selling thingies is maybe a good idea for the first time a person downloads the app…..but I am getting a bit peeved when they keep resetting the fucking preference to “ON” when I set the thing to “OFF” for a reason.

If this keeps up, I will decide that I don’t need Amazon on my phone…. Which is going to impact my Amazon buying much more than their suggestive selling is likely to generate…the offset will be at least thousand dollars a year, if not more.

Ya hear me, Jeff Bezos? I already buy enough through you.. leave me the hell alone.

I mean, whoda seen this coming?

Certainly no one with a functioning brain……

     Iran has reportedly found an unexpectedly high reserve of uranium, following assessments that the      country is running low on the nuclear raw material and just days after President Obama essentially      secured an international nuclear deal with the country’s leaders.

I am shocked, shocked, I tell you.

When the first A bomb goes off, it’ll be Barry’s finest achievement….Sadly, he (and most of the DNC) are not working for the good of the USA….

Apparently, Tam has put 300(!) rounds through a 1911 with no cleaning (and apparently, it started out not so terribly clean to begin with) …. and had no issues…..

Can’t be. The only gun that can do that is, of course,  a GLOCK. We all know that 1911’s  are Jam -O-Matics…. The only things worse are Kel-Tecs and Hi-Points….

Be interesting to see if it makes it all the way to the 2000 mark.

Since the first rule is “Bring a gun” I am looking for a pocket pistol…I have, as my daily carry, (and wherever legal) depending on where I will be and the gun friendliness of the places I will be, one of the following:

General daily carry:  Para LDA 3″  It is a .45 1911-oid… is stainless. This is a 3″ 1911 shaped (and manual of arms) firearm with a really long, but smooth and light double action trigger. Nice, but not as concealable as:

Social carry: Beretta 3032 Tomcat. Yeah, I know a defensive gun is supposed to have a caliber beginning with a “4” and all that….and a .32 isn’t a real caliber … But I can’t always carry a .45 in some social situations, or for instance, when I am doing something like bowling or such….And modern loads for the .32 ACP approach the .380 in stopping power…not much, but a whole lot better than a sharp word….(if I could buy a Beretta model 86 today, in stainless, I’d buy one)

Around home/working in the yard, etc: A Taurus TCP in .380 ACP (is there any other size?). It is a last ditch thing, but the pistol is durable, tolerant of dirt and sweat, and is easily concealed and doesn’t move around…and is easy to secure with an IWB holster and a belt, even when I am doing things like splitting wood or fixing a piece of machinery….If I am in the barn, there are other close at hand options. If I am out in the yard, well, again, better than a stick…

One thing that is very important to me in all of these guns is resistance to corrosion….I have sweat that eats carbon steel like acid. Anything carried IWB has to be either stainless or resistant to corrosion or it will be pitted in a week and inoperative in a month. Seriously.

I am looking at the DAO Bodyguard .380….anyone have any experience with this firearm? Durability, resistance to sweat, dirt, etc? Reliability? Other observations?  Holster options for Concealed Carry?

and leaving the historical significance of the date aside, it is likely to be a lively day…..

Seems that bunch of “Black Lives Matter” type folks are planning some demonstrations and other rallys promoting violence and mayhem.

I’d be careful. Be on guard. Stay away form predominantly poor black neighborhoods on 9/11 and 9/12.

This might be (most likely will be) a fizzle. But maybe not.

Plan accordingly…

Best not to be there, if ya can arrange it….You can’t fight a mob, if and when. You can’t carry enough magazines…

‘Twasn’t christians, nor Bhuddists, not Wiccans nor Hindus nor Jews… ‘Twas Muslims. Supported by Muslims. I don’t care if it is politically correct to point that out or not. Not all Muslims are bad, but again, it wasn’t Christians, nor Buddists, not Wiccans nor Hindus nor Jews who did this terrible deed……

I won’t forget.
Will you?

Yeah, they’ve either gone insane, or decided they have become irrelevant…

Oathkeepers send armed guards to protect Kim Davis from US Marshalls. 

They’ve obviously lost their minds.

And laughed and laughed….

Just in case you haven’t seen it….

Go here. Beverage alert….you’ve been warned.

(Midnite already? HAHAHAHAHAHA)

Martin Milner, star of Adam-12, has passed at the age of 83.

I believe I have watched every single episode over the years. His character, Pete Molloy, was, to me, what a cop should be.