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A glimpse into the future of Uncle Bernie’s America

 Crazy, dumbassery, Forward!, news, Obamazombies, politics, wisdom, ಠ_ಠ  18 Responses »
Feb 032016
 

Venezuela on the brink of complete economic collapse

Color me stunned: a nation that went so socialist that they nationalized just about everything is facing some economic issues. Their new “economic czar” believes that simply printing more money *doesn’t* result in inflation. Just… shocking.

What’s especially entertaining is that when the socialists took over the economy, Venezuelas oil reserves were a massive source of national income. Essentially free money. And what did the Chavez socialists do with this? Did they build up the national infrastructure and invite foreign investment? Did they make Venezuela an inviting place to do business? No… they did the bread and circuses thing with welfare spending. And while Venezuela had a whole bunch of the sort of poor people that American poor people only *think* they’re as poor as, the Venezuelan welfare state did squat to raise the poor out of poverty. By embracing the nationalization of foreign businesses, the socialists made sure that nobody would want to do business there.

Probably some lessons worth learning here.

bernie-sanders 1

 Posted by at 10:46 pm

Here it is… the stupidest thing you’ll read today

 dumbassery, Forward!, Gah., politics, ಠ_ಠ  5 Responses »
Feb 022016
 

Secretary of Defense Announces How He’ll Waste $582 Billion

… which basically boils down to the author of the piece attempting to make fun of the SecDef because the author believes that all DoD weapon system spending from here on out should be directed solely at fighting ISIS, because obviously the US will never face any other geopolitical threats.

 Posted by at 6:19 pm

13 years ago

 AARRRGH, history, Hmm..., rockets, spacecraft  12 Responses »
Feb 012016
 

There I was, driving through the dreary interior of California on a 200-mile trip to go out on a date, when I turned on the radio to hear that the Space Shuttle Columbia had exploded on re-entry. There followed at least an hour  of the dusty nothingness that is the road to Sacramento, and then the date, which involved meeting the young ladies mother. Neither of them gave a rats ass about the Shuttle, while I was kinda desperate to see the news on the TV. Yeah, not what you’d call a great social success story. Oh well.

Anyway, there has long been debate on whether if, with enough knowledge and effort, the crew could have been saved. I’m of the opinion that the moment the foam smacked the wing, the crew was pretty much doomed. But maybe…

The audacious rescue plan that might have saved space shuttle Columbia

 Posted by at 9:24 pm

Trump train hits a bump

 Hmm..., news, politics  13 Responses »
Feb 012016
 

Well, how about that: Cruz won the Iowa caucus with 28%; Trump got 24%. The big surprise is that Rubio got 23%.

On the other side, Clinton (D:Dishonesty) has 49.8 %, while Crazy Uncle Bernie got 49.6%. The third guy got 0.5%, so the Dems can’t claim that they are torn between two bad candidates… they had three to choose from, along with (I suppose) write-ins and “None Of The Above.” The third guy has dropped out, not that anyone is going to notice.

 Posted by at 8:58 pm

PC? This story has it *all*

 Crazy, humor, news, politics, youtube  5 Responses »
Feb 012016
 

OK, so we’ve got a white guy in charge of an Arizona branch of the NAACP. If that’s not hi-larious enough, he used the F-word to apologize for using the T-word to describe a portion of a female reporter while at a protest over some students using the N-word. Throw in: a preacher wanting to remove the guy from his position at the NAACP due to his “white privilege.”

 

 Posted by at 1:56 pm

“Technological Doping”

 dumbassery, Hmm..., news, ಠ_ಠ  9 Responses »
Feb 012016
 

Here’s a new one:

UCI confirms motorised doping uncovered at cyclo-cross World Championships

I’ve heard of using “performance enhancing drugs” in bicycle races before, but not actual motors. And if I had, I don’t think I’ve heard of it referred to as “doping.”

Sadly the article does not provide  design of the motorized bike. The motor, and presumably batteries or fuel tank or whatever it uses, are hidden within the frame (which would not seem to provide a whole lot of volume for such things), and it’s unclear just how a hidden motor provides power to the wheel. In order to be of use to a racer the motor would have to provide a fair bit of power and at least some meaningful duration; if this was done with a system that can be safely hidden within a racing bicycles frame it must be a technological marvel.

Entertainingly, the racer caught using the motorized bikes claims: “I didn’t know anything about it. I don’t know how that bike got there. I was surprised to see that bike standing there. It’s not my bike. There’s been a mistake.”

Yeah.

 Posted by at 1:05 pm

Human Figures

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Jan 312016
 

I tend to include human figure “scale references” in my CAD diagrams or aircraft and spacecraft. But I’m getting kinda bored of using the same ones, over and over. Anybody know of some good alternates? I’m especially interested in other human figure scale references from aerospace corporation/NASA/USAF/etc. diagrams.

figures

 Posted by at 2:19 am

And here’s *todays* extra dose of crazy

 Crazy, dumbassery, Forward!, history, politics, religion, reshaping the world, ಠ_ಠ  13 Responses »
Jan 302016
 

Yesterday dealt with some wacky science conspiracy theorizing. Todays… actually matters. Some “anti fascist” socialists in Germany decided to post this to their Facebook page (and then deleted it when someone noticed):

racists4rapists

 

The caption translates to “rather sexually overactive refugees than racist Germans,” but the sign is a bit more to the point. But what these idjits seem to not understand: if they were able to wave their magic wands and vaporize German racists… the rapists they’re importing in seemingly vast numbers will only create *more* racists.

Remember come November that these people have the same basic political philosophy as Crazy Uncle Bernie.

UPDATE: it appears that the posterboard the woman is holding has been photoshopped. It originally seems to have read “Will trade racists for refugees.” The change in text is what, in the best tradition of professional journalism, is known as “fake but accurate.”

 Posted by at 11:05 pm

Really, this isn’t a very surprising headline

 AARRRGH, Crazy, news, ಠ_ಠ  5 Responses »
Jan 302016
 

Georgia lotto winner gunned down in home invasion

The guy won $400,000, got some publicity, then got a shotgun blast in his home in front of his family from three gentlemen who were apparently after that money.

Now, imagine you were one of the recent Powerball winners, and you’ve just won four hundred MILLION dollars. Yeah, I think a wee bit of paranoia might be called for.

 Posted by at 9:07 pm
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