Home again

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May 222014
 

The place is still standing, though I ain’t. Amazing how tiring six or seven hours of sitting on your butt can be… especially when it followed a couple hours of hiking through some truly bizarre terrain.

I need to work with my files a bit (step one: BACK UP EVERYTHING) and buy some new DVDs, but I should get burning on them by the weekend. Might take a little while to get them all done.

Also: I will also get back to work on the “prototype” version of “A Guide to American Nuclear Explosive Devices” within the next day or so. I don’t have an estimate of when these will be ready, but I don’t think it should be too long. Certainly far faster than the “Space Station V” thing: I find writing about Real Stuff goes vastly faster than fiction, and the same holds for CAD drafting. Fiction requires a certain aspect of imagination that I’m finding a bit difficult to access as easily as I once did.

Also also: I’ve decided on the “special” for the “early adopters” of the nuke expedition. As appropriate for the subject, the decision came with a proper MUAHAHAHAHAHA evil genius laugh. This should be available well in advance of the book prototype.

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And to get back into the swing of things, I heard about this on the radio today:

Howard’s Daily: Finding Infrastructure in the Stimulus Plan

Remember the $800 billion “stimulus” package from 2009? Guess how much of it got spent on physical infrastructure (roads, bridges, etc…. you know, the stuff the government is actually *supposed* to do): 3%.

Woo.

About $500 billion went to tax cuts, unemployment benefits, and “state fiscal relief” (shoring up insolvent state budgets). The remaining $300 billion was spent on actual projects, of which the big beneficiaries were: (i) subsidies for clean energy ($78 billion), (ii) subsidies for education and child support ($50 billion)(student loans, special ed, and support for disadvantaged children), (iii) health and health IT ($32 billion), (iv) transportation infrastructure ($30 billion, as noted above); (v) environmental cleanup ($28 billion), (vi) new buildings ($24 billion), (vii) scientific research ($18 billion), and a few other categories.

Stimulating, no?

 Posted by at 4:40 pm

Anarchy conferences leads to anarchy

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May 162014
 

Shouted Down at Portland State

Short form: Portland State U seems to have a “conference” every year on the subject of police violence. One panelist, Kristian Williams, has apparently written a number of articles and books on the subject of police violence. But his presence caused the local wyminist cause-heads to get all twitchy… because he also wrote an article that made the radical suggestion that, just maybe, when it comes to the subject of sexual violence, perhaps we might want to consider this wacky notion called “due process.”

The result:

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So the organizers of the conference about police violence… call the police.

Crazy Insane Troll Face

Go on, take a guess at the level of discourse provided by these “scholars.”

I really hope these kids parents see what they’re up to, and re-evaluate how their money is being spent. One wonders how many of the shouters are majoring in anything useful like science or engineering or medicine, as opposed to useless PC bullcrap.

 Posted by at 10:04 pm

“Critical Whiteness Studies?”

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Apr 012014
 

It’s April 1st. AKA “April Fools Day,” a day notable for bad jokes and hoaxes (such as “A Necro-Biological Explanation for the Fermi Paradox,” a reasonable facsimile of a dry scientific paper, posted on Arxiv.org, which attributes the silence of the universe to a near universal zombie epidemic). The problem is, “real news” happens on April 1s, just like any other day. and while most news stories are clearly not April 1st gags, some are real hard to tell if they are hoaxes… or signs that some people are really, really messed up. Like this one:

What Can Educators do to End White Supremacy in the Classroom?

This, sadly, appears to be entirely on the up-and-up, just bad timing. It describes the 15th annual “National White Privilege Conference” held in Madison, Wisconsin. What was discussed there is *entirely* insane. Just utter racist rubbish, of the worst self-hating variety.

One of the “educators” featured in the story is gettign her PhD in “Critical whiteness studies,” something I’ve never heard of before. So, I looked it up on wikipedia. And what I learned is this:

“Black studies” are taught by black folk to explain how great black folk are.

“Chicano/hispanic studies” are taught by chicano/hispanic folk to explain how great chicano/hispanic folk are.

“Womens studies” are taught by women to explain how great women are.

“White studies” are taught by black folk to explain how terrible white folk are.

Buh?

Throw in a lot of gibberish about “privilege,” a whole lot of anti-white race-baiting, a heaping helping of psychobabble and a dumptruck full of socialist/Marxist bullcrap, and you have “critical whiteness studies.”

Gah.

I’m starting to come around to the thinking of many of those on the far left, that views that they don’t agree with should be banned or made illegal. In my case, I’m about to call for a petition to the White House demanding a moratorium on “liberal arts” being taught in universities for a generation or two. Higher ed should be restricted to the likes of physics, chemistry, engineering, computer science, medicine, that sort of thing: STEM. And lay off the BS curricula long enough for the current practitioners to just simply *die.*

 Posted by at 2:29 pm

Todays best headlines

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Mar 312014
 

From Fark.com:

Reminder: Today is your last day of open enrollment and you must sign up for Obamacare now. The Obamacare web site has been helpfully rendered inoperable for your convenience

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Spokeswoman says engineers “are in control” of structural defects at 420-foot-high dam in seismically-active area. If she’s wrong, Africa could lose 1.3GW of grid power, 3.5 million people and the capital of Zambia

 Posted by at 9:35 am

So… what’s a Level One?

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Mar 042014
 

10-year-old suspended for making fingers into shape of gun

As if the basic idea isn’t stupid enough, apparently the school-rule fascists have this sort of thing pretty well codified:

the reason for Nathan’s suspension as a “level 2 look alike firearm.”

Yeah.

What’s worse is that if this sort of nonsense continues, not only are the control freaks going to damage generations of kids with respect to firearms and *play,* they’re also going to mess with teaching physics. Anyone else here remember the Right Hand Rule?

Good for physics::

RHR

Good for statics & dynamics:

index

I can see it now….

Oh My God! He has a rocket launcher!!!

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Oh My God! He’s got a detonator!

righthandrulex

 

Where things get interesting is when two inviolate areas of political correctness collide. What happens when this ban on “finger guns” runs into Sex Ed?

twointhe

 Posted by at 8:07 pm

“Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft”

 blather, Forward!, I'm from the government, Obamazombies, politics, weapons, wisdom  5 Responses »
Feb 152014
 

So, in the wake of the Newtown massacre, New York state rushed to pass some feel-good, do-bad anti “assault weapon” laws aimed specifically at getting rid of the AR-15. What’s the end result? Companies making money by selling bits and pieces that will make your AR-15 law-compliant, but in no way affect the operation of the weapon.

Such as:

The AR-15 Receiver Spur

The New York State SAFE Act states that a “pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon” is one characteristic that defines a rifle as an assault weapon.  If this is the sole characteristic that defines your AR-15 as an assault weapon, The AR-15 Receiver Spur remedies this issue.

spur

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If you want to go a little further, Stag Arms sells a butt stock/grip replacement that keeps full functionality yet puts you in compliance:

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Or do it yourself:

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The point: these laws accomplish *nothing* in terms of “making children safer” or any such rubbish. What they *do* do:

1) Inconvenience some gun owners

2) Persuade other gun owners, previously law abiding, to become criminals.

I think #2 there bears some thinking about. As with many drug laws, what these anti-gun laws do is convince many decent folk that breaking the law is the best option. And once you have done that… you, as a legislator who wrote and passed this law, have contributed to the breakdown of respect for the legal system as a whole.

I believe a case can be made that laws that are passed that serve no purpose but to increase lawlessness are, at their heart, treasonous laws.

 Posted by at 12:17 pm
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