Another exciting North Korean propaganda video with late 1980’s production values threatens to nuke Colorado Springs… which is apparently somewhere in Missouri. Maybe Kansas. But with the sort of advanced nuclear weapons Best Korea has produced, what does it matter?
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I’d pay real money if only Mike and the bots would come back to rip these videos…
Saw this today. If you’re ever in the Ogden area, stop in Impact Guns. Even in their currently depleted state, they have lots of neat stuff. If you want a full-auto STG-44, they’ve got one. They have an indoor shooting range in the back with lots of rentable guns.
And because why not, here’s as good an explanation as any as to why Kim Jong Whatever is acting the way he is:
Some test footage of the Laser Weapon System installed on the guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG 105). This was previously shown HERE (and discussed HERE and HERE). In the footage, shot apparently last July, it’s shown frying (rather slowly) a small drone aircraft. Previously released video showing the laser knocking down identical flying-wing drones seem to have featured a ground-mounted system; this new video would seem to indicate that the shootdown occurred with the ship-mounted system. No data on how fast the ship was going and how rough the seas were. Guess: sitting still in calm seas.
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UPDATE: now with newsification.
It somehow seems vaguely relevant to this news item:
You know what’s more dangerous than a gun? A nut with a gun. What’s more dangerous than a nut with a gun? An anti-gun nut with a gun.
The details are entertaining.
James Schiliro, mayor of Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, apparently had one of his cops bring a 20-year-old male to his home, where he got said minor liquored-up and tried to make the Republican With Two Backs with him. When the kid chose to not be involved, the mayor reportedly pulled out a pistol and fired it into the floor (or maybe the wall) to force the guy to play along.
Superfun: the mayors 13-year old daughter was home at the time.
Pentagon Running Out of U.S. Suppliers of Energetic Materials
Down to single or no domestic sources on 181 important energetic materials. Earlier reports mentioned materials such as lead azide (used in detonators), calcium silicide (used in smoke generators, infrared decoys, explosive bolts and others), triaminotrinitrobenzene (an explosive used in plastic explosives and possibly nuclear warheads). Presumably the full list contains materials needed for explosives and rocket propellants.
Rememember when the USA was actually able to make stuff?
On the one hand, it’s hard to be hard on Mark Kelly for becoming an anti-gun-nut. His wife was plugged in the noggin by a wacky leftist schizophrenic, after all… that’s gotta mess you up. But then, as he goes publicity seeking a few weeks ago, he wound up buying an Evil Black AR-15 Assault Murder Weapon *and* a .45 1911-style pistol (had Jared Laughner had one of those instead of a weenie 9mm, Gabbie would *not* have survived her gunshot):
But then yesterday, whatever plans he had for his AR-15, whether plinking, home defense or political theater, turned into garbage when the gun store cancelled the sale and gave him his money back:
And while Mark Kelly and Gabby Giffords await the launch of the USS Gabby Giffords, a brand-new Independence class littoral combat ship (continuing the long, proud tradition of cynically naming Naval vessels after *living* politicians), Mark Kelly and his daughter wander down to the California seashore for a relaxing day at the beach… where they lose control of their High Capacity Assault Dog, and it goes and kills a defenseless baby sea lion:
(If you must, HERE is the YouTube video of the incident. Note that there is definite NSFW language, plus rather disturbing footage of a dog killing a baby sea lion. Lots of blood, and an abandoned baby sea lion carcass sadly floating out to sea.).
Note that in California, killing a sea lion is Bad Legal News. Will Kelly and/or his daughter be hauled up on charges like your average schmoe with an Assault Dog would be? It seems not. Also note, the way the headline is written makes it sound at first like Mark Kelly tried heroically to save the sea lion from the dog, when in fact the dog was apparently his (or at least his daughters) responsibility.
Where we read that a vial of “Guanarito” virus has gone missing from a laboratory at the University of Texas Medical Branch.
“Guanarito” is also known by the name “Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever” and has a fatality rate of 23%. What’s extra-special is that Venezuelan hemorrhagic fever is spread through “aerosolized dissemination,” which typically means “sneezing.” A secondary meaning of the term is “hey, this stuff would make a great bio-weapon, sprayed out of a can on a train, bus or plane.”
I don’t have any more information than what’s contained in this one extremely thin little PR announcement:
…later tonight, Senator Mike Lee of Utah intends to offer an amendment to the budget resolution that would prohibit any gun control legislation which does not have a 2/3 vote in the Senate.
I’d like it to be true. I’d like it to pass. But I suspect that, at best, it’s a little bit of political theater that’ll simply get wiped away.
A rule that makes *any* new federal law or regulation that infringes upon basic rights contingent upon requiring a 2/3 majority seems like a good idea to me.
Subtle message…
… as part of the same joint US/South Korea military exercises that have Lil’ Kim Jong Etc. shaking his tiny fist.
Senator Cruz questions Senator Feinstein, who refuses to answer the question. Not that it’ll help, but it’s instructive to witness the fecklessness of the fascists in the US FedGuv like Feinstein as they try desperately to avoid the implications of what they are attempting to foist upon the people.
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