Yeah, we’ve all seen videos of ICBM launches. But how many videos have you seen of the *other* end of the flight, with the RV’s smacking into the target zone? This video documents a launch of a Minuteman III from Vandenberg AFB in California to the impact of the three warheads (w/o nukes) in Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands.
It’s just plain impressive to see those RVs come screaming in, glowing so hot that they light up the clouds.
This has been a dreadful summer for motion picture box office receipts, with some big, big bombs. But then there were surprise hits like “Sausage Party” which cost relatively little to make ($19 M) and raked in more than $90 M domestically. The lesson? Maybe smaller is better. For example, this short film, “Never Met Her.” It is NSFW. It is a fact-based little yarn about a recent protest at the University of Texas-Austin where a bunch of anti-gun protesters decided to carry sex toys around public for some reason (watch out, kids, you might cut yourself being so durned edgy).
Unsurprisingly, some snowflakes got triggered.
Do you suffer the heartache of having just way too much 5.56mm ammo, with no way to burn through it all? Empty Shell, LLC, has the answer! Their XM556 Microgun is the hand-held minigun you’ve been waiting for (assuming you are a government agency, because unlike civilians, government agencies can *always* be trusted).
Rate of fire: up to 4,000 rounds/minute.
This thing *really* needs to be mounted on a steadicam harness.
Now, what *practical* applications are there for a weapon like this? A similar gun, the XM214, was built in prototype form by General Electric. It never found much use outside Hollywood (T2 and Predator, a few others), largely because the 5.56 round, despite what the media says, is not a particularly high power round, and the range is distinctly limited. So since the XM556 has even shorter barrels, meaning lower muzzle velocity and higher dispersion, it’ll be even less accurate. So, what can it be used for?
Eric Greitens for Governor of Missouri.
Sigh. *Again* with the wrong sound effect for the Minigun…
And this:
This here is a downright interesting weapon:
Generally, a knife is one of the most astoundingly useful tools you can own. But this knife, the “Jagdkommando Tri-Dagger Knife,” has traded general utility for being useful for one thing: stabbing things.
There are several variants of the knife available, different sizes and materials. And the prices are… kinda high. Is it a quality knife, worth the price? I dunno.
Guess what, though: some people don’t like it, and don’t want you to have it. In all probability this is because they are honestly weenies who live in fear, but there is always the possibility of some deeper conspiracy: the knife makers made a knife specifically design to enrage the trigglodytes, *and*they hired some of the triggly mouthpieces to rail against it. What better way to gin up sales?
Perhaps I live in a different la-la land, but this doesn’t make any sense to me or anyone else at Gizmodo. So please someone explain. Or let’s get over with it and make this stupid thing illegal.
” I don’t want this. Therefore it should be illegal.” The plaintive cry of the totalitarian.
Some versions on Amazon, should you want to spend a bucket of money on something you probably won’t get a whole lot of direct use out of, but might enjoy if for no other reason than to scare the trigglies:
Microtech MT105-1TAM Mini Jagdkommando Tri-Blade Knife
Microtech MT105-7TIM Mini Jagdkommando Titanium Tri-Blade Knife
Microtech Jagdkommando Knife, Titanium, 12 5/8in.
Who would the USA exit from? I suggest from the federal government. Behold:
The “Militarization of America” report found civilian agencies spent $1.48 billion on guns, ammunition, and military-style equipment between 2006 and 2014. Examples include IRS agents with AR-15s, and EPA bureaucrats wearing camouflage. … Open the Books found there are now over 200,000 non-military federal officers with arrest and firearm authority, surpassing the 182,100 personnel who are actively serving in the U.S. Marines Corps.
I’m sorry (no I’m not), but the government doesn’t get to have temper tantrums and demand that the people should be disarmed while at the same time loading up on the very same arms they say we can’t have.
Whenever there’s a gun control debate, you almost always see the one guy pop up with “Yeah, ok, so what about nukes? Should regular folks be allowed to own nukes? Huh? Should they? Gotcha!” I’ve suggested before that a simple rule of thumb on what arms the civilian populace should not be barred from having is this: I get to buy whatever the internal policing system in the US gets to buy. If the EPA gets to have assault weapons, so do I. If the IRS wants main battle tanks, I should be allowed to buy ’em too. If the Food and Drug Administration gets theater ballistic missiles, so do I. If the Small Business Administration gets weaponized smallpox, then I get the selection of plagues and poxes of my choice.
Don’t want me to have a particular class of weapon, Representative Trigglypants? Then why do *you* get them?
Since the AR-15 is in the news again, people – and reporters and politicians – have been referring to it as, among other things, a “high power rifle.” Yeah, about that…
That’s not how they teach you to fire that thing. Accuracy has got to suffer. But that’s about the *only* thing that suffers.
So pretty much all day today I’ve been dealing with getting a book assembled. It’s of unusual format (11 inch-high pages about 40 inches long) and of only 27 pages length, but it cost enough to have printed that I only got ten. And so today I ran my butt 40 miles down the road to the print shop to get it (and a few other things that were printed), and once I got home I’ve spent the rest of the day dealing with these project. After many hours futzing around, I have a grand total of one copy of the book all assembled.
Anyway, I was busy all day today. While driving home I heard something on the radio that made me think someone was playing a little joke, and then forgot all about it. So when I finally finished that first book, I turned on CNN to find that the House Democrats have lost their tiny little minds and have been having a childish temper tantrum all day. If you’ve somehow failed to hear, they’ve been having a “sit in” in the House preventing work from going forward because they lost votes on their initial ideas about restricting the civil liberties of American citizens without due process. Take, for example, Senator Diane Feinstein explaining that it is up to Americans to prove their innocence, a complete reversal of more than 200 years of American jurisprudence. She then goes on to say that that’s just the first step; next comes banning the average civilian firearm.
And the floor of the House looks like it has been invaded by an army of Trigglypuffs, shouting their inane slogans: “Why do you want to let terrorists buy a gun?” “No bill, no breaks!” And other such nonsense, like a bunch of idiot campus causehead protestors. At the same time they’re yapping about wanting a Real Debate, they’re shouting down anyone with an opposing view, like Louis Gohmert pointing out that the Orlando terrorist attack was, in fact, a terrorist attack:
Bah.
At left, Rep. John Lewis. He made his name in the 1960’s working for civil rights; now he’s working to curtail civil rights.
The reason I turned on CNN in the first place was to see the Libertarian town hall in hopes that maybe, just maybe, the Libertarians might give me hope this time around. But it was pre-empted by coverage of the Democrats House whine-in. It’s very unlikely, but just barely possible enough that maybe there was some thought in advance to scheduling this childish display in order to wipe out one of the few opportunities the Libertarians have of reaching the public.
And apparently Nancy Pelosi is sending out fundraising emails. Even the talking heads on CNN generally agreed that this was “gauche;” the Dems claim they’re doing this to protect families and children and puppies and baby unicorns, but it’s really just a craven and monumentally cynical publicity and fundraising stunt.
Even Raedthinn can’t stand these idjits, and he doesn’t even watch CNN.
