Sure, let’s make ’em a state. What could go wrong?

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Dec 172021
 

A recent gang shooting in San Juan, Puerto Rico left six dead. While this sounds like your average night in Chicago or Detroit, the uncensored video (in the tweet below, because this is a family-friendly blog) video shows that the description “a hail of gunfire” doesn’t quite do it justice. The people who wanted the other people dead wanted them *really* dead. As in “the writers of Marvel comics will have a hard time bringing these guys back” sort of dead.

A discussion of the event with a whole lot of blurring is in the YouTube video below:

I can only assume that the drug trade was involved in some way. And as bad as this incident was… imagine it transported to the streets of some American city that has just defunded the police. Note that the hit squad here used fully automatic weapons (most armed with high-cyclic rate pistols, likely Glocks, while the probable leader had a gold-plated AK-47), which are just as illegal in PR as they are in the US. So… yeah, another gun control success story.

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The Alphabet Song

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Dec 112021
 

I’d love to see this catch on in grade schools. It would be a hoot to see how teachers who screech on about their pronouns and end up on Libs Of TikTok would react to a lil’ dickens busting out with this version of the song…

You can get a copy of the coloring book HERE.

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They just don’t understand large portions of the population

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Dec 062021
 

Most of the people I know would look at the Christmas card in question and feel some combination of impressed and jealous. But then there’s CNN and their ilk, who cannot understand people who do not live and think as they do and feel perfectly free to point out just how out of touch they are.

A fully functional M-60? Yes please.

And then there’s this even more embarrassing screed published by the Britlanderish “Guardian:”

‘It’s who they are’: gun-fetish photo a symbol of Republican abasement under Trump

Summarized:

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Victory Through Air Power

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Dec 012021
 

The most recent APR rewards included a CAD diagram I created of the “Disney Bomb.” This little known weapon was created by the British in WWII, but dropped by USAAF B-17’s in the last months of the war in Europe. The reason for the unusual name: in 1942 Disney produced an animated propaganda film on the history and potential or military air power. This film included sequences of the war to come, depicting some kinda-sorta sci-fi thinking. Included here is a bomb with a rocket motor, used to penetrate the reinforced concrete roof of a submarine pen. This gave some British engineers ideas… and they made it reality. The Disney bomb was imperfect, but damned if it didn’t work. Next time someone argues that sci-fi doesn’t actually directly inspire engineers to create the future, remember the Disney bomb.

The YouTube version of “Victory” linked below is pretty awful in reproduction quality, but it’s the best I’ve seen (it was released on DVD some years ago).

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