And here ya go:
Oct 132020
Oct 102020
Well, maybe. The North Koreans are as renowned for their honesty and their transparency as the Harris/Biden team, so it’s entirely possible this thing is made out of cardboard. Still, attention should be paid, and attention should be paid to development of a new American ICBM. The US land-based ICBMs are based on a design pushing *sixty* years old. Design something new… and road-mobile. Build a thousand of the missiles, and five thousand decoys.
Oct 092020
I saw a commercial a little while ago where Gropey Joe said something along the lines that he will only raise taxes on people making more than $400,000 per year. But as mentioned yesterday, he wants to make rifles and standard capacity magazines NFA items. This means that you will need to pay a tax on each one of these that you own. And that tax is $200. Per item.
Do you have an AR-15 with three magazines? That’s a $200 tax on a $500 rifle… and a $200 tax on a $12 magazine, times three. You owe the government $800. But do you also have a Glock with a half dozen magazines? That’s an extra $1200 for the magazines. Maybe you also have an AK-47 clone with a dozen mags. You now owe a further $2600. Maybe you have a Beretta with six mags. That’s another $1200. That’s an extra $5,800 you owe, just for the privilege of exercising a Constitutional right.
Maybe you’re an enthusiastic collector. You have a dozen rifles, each with forty magazines. This is not so many for someone willing to buy a gun a year, say. But you now owe the government $98,400. Otherwise it’s ten years in a Federal prison.
Biden/Harris: not even once.
Oct 082020
Well… except this guy:
The Biden Plan to End Our Gun Violence Epidemic
Ban the manufacture and sale of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
Translation: common rifles and standard capacity magazines.
Regulate possession of existing assault weapons under the National Firearms Act.
The NFA means that you give up your right to not have random, unreasonable search and seizure. You will no longer be secure in your home if you have a standard rifle.
Buy back the assault weapons and high-capacity magazines already in our communities.
Sell them to the government or else.
End the online sale of firearms and ammunitions. Biden will enact legislation to prohibit all online sales of firearms, ammunition, kits, and gun parts.
Not only will he ban the online sale of guns and ammo, he’ll go after things like springs and nuts and bolts.
Put America on the path to ensuring that 100% of firearms sold in America are smart guns.
“Smart guns” are very expensive and unreliable. Which is doubtless the point.
Stop “ghost guns.”
He wants to ban common machine shop tools, the only way to prevent people from manufacturing their own firearms.
There are around 300 million firearms in the US, with 5 to 10 million of those being AR-15’s, millions more being AK-47’s and other “assault weapons.” In Biden’s America, all of those would become illegal. This means that Biden wants to Federally imprison *millions* of peaceful American citizens for no other reasons than they are exercising their Constitutional rights. Would Biden/Harris be able to get away with this patently unConstitutional set of laws if they rammed such legislation througha Dem-controlled Congress? Would they be able to get away with it via executive order? The way the Supreme Court is currently set, you’d think there’d be a chance that reason could prevail and such a tyrannical set of laws would be overturned. But Biden has a solution for that: ha wants to pack the court.
Biden says he won’t divulge position on court packing until after election
When asked if he would pack the court in order to get his way, he could have said “no, of course not, everyone knows that that would be the most transparently tyrannical thing any modern President could do.” That’s not what he said.
Oct 012020
If you want an example of “why don’t the cops rely on tasers” coupled with “why did they shoot him more than once,” well, Chicago delivers:
I was always reasonably sure that a taser, if it hit a guy, would stand a *real* good chance of immobilizing him. But added, ummm, mass seems to provide a cushion of sorts. And that guy took a *long* time to fall once they started riddling him with holes. I suspect pharmaceuticals may have played a role.
The Twitter video goes a few seconds longer and is substantially more graphic. If you’re in the mood to see someone shot in the throat shooting up a geyser of blood, hey, this is your lucky day:
Incredible video released by @ChicagoCOPA tonight. Police confront man wanted for stabbing a citizen nearby. Man clearly has large knife, overcomes effect of Tazer and charges sergeant with knife. (Graphic) #Chicago pic.twitter.com/uZ0nO2G2E1
— CWBChicago (@CWBChicago) October 1, 2020
Sep 102020
Take a moment away from the craziness for some nice, calming, peaceful music:
Sep 092020
Old nuclear test films upscaled and colorized. While not perfect, they’re really quite good.
These come from a YouTube channel with a lot of old B&W films “improved” via artificial intelligence:
Sep 082020
An interesting video about the last item that the US military fielded that could be called a “flamethrower,” the M202 “Flash:”
Now, it would probably be inappropriate to suggest that weapons such as this, or perhaps “Dragons Breath” cartridges for tear gas launches, would be an appropriate response to communists in the streets throwing Molotov cocktails. So don’t even think about it.
Sep 052020
Can anybody with experience firing shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles confirm that when you pull the trigger, the missile is suppose to leave the tube… not drag the launcher along with it? Cuz goll-lee, this sure don’t seem right:
Big misfire of an Igla MANPADS during the Clear Sky 2020 air defense competition in Russia 😬
pic.twitter.com/X4hH6crXX6— CNW (@ConflictsW) September 5, 2020
Sep 022020
A while back I found two 8X10 glossies in an antique store. The owners had no information on the photos; they had come in a box of photos from an estate sale, the rest of the photos being completely unrelated. The store owners thought that the photos showed a test of a beam weapon of some kind. Not unreasonable for people not familiar with actual beam weapons or ballistic missiles. The photos are certainly evocative of death beams zapping targets in the sky. But what they actually show are missile warheads coming *down,* screaming towards the ground at incredible speed. When the photos were taken, I’ve no idea. *Where,* almost certainly somewhere in the South Pacific… most likely Kwajalein Atoll, a common target for ICBMs and SLBMs. *What* missile was tested, I’m also uncertain. One photo shows a single re-entry vehicle; the other shows three. The Minuteman III lobbed three warheads; the Peacekeeper, up to ten; the Trident, up to 14. This *probably* shows a Minuteman III… assuming that is actually a single test.
I’ve uploaded the full resolution scans of these photos to the 2020-09 APR Extras Dropbox folder for Patrons and Subscribers at the $4 level and above.
