Sep 162022
 

I liked the original version with Paul Newman and Steve McQueen. But I guess the Chinese felt they needed their own version…

Looks like the fire was mostly external materials. I bet that smoke would do no end of no good to anyone downwind of it.

 Posted by at 12:46 pm
Sep 142022
 

The school? About to be sued. Family of the bully? Hopefully to be sued into permanent poverty. The bully? Sadly little that can be done, given his juvenile status. But hopefully the internet will remember him when he’s an adult and wants an actual job. Would *you* hire him?

If nothing else, keep this video in mind when deciding on where to permit your kids to be schooled. If something like this happens at a school near you and the perp *isn’t* expelled, make sure your kids don’t go there.

 

Bonus round:

 

 Posted by at 10:03 am
Sep 142022
 

A wholly remarkable shooting caught on camera by a bystander. A crazed guy was shot at point blank range by a cop *twelve* times in the chest before he went down. So, yeah, I’m keeping my standard capacity mags, thanks.

 

 

 

 

 Posted by at 8:55 am
Sep 112022
 

Entertaining as always, but with a healthy dose of WTFery when he discusses the condition of the Moskva prior to being attacked. It’s… kinda astonishing. A ship that on paper was damned impressive, capable of dishing out heaps of violence, and able to defend itself from heaps of violence, turned out to be almost wholly inoperable. With an unforeseen diversion into the One True Cross, because apparently a chunk of it was on the Moskva. Whoopsie.

 Posted by at 5:55 pm
Sep 102022
 

It seems like anytime anyone mentions the new “SAFE-T Act” in Illinois, some reference to “The Purge” is made. What the Act will do, among other things, is end the cash bail system. There are good arguments for and against ending cash bail, where someone can pay a chunk of change to be able to go home and begin work on their defense. But what the Act does is *not* to end bail so that everyone arrested for a crime has to stay in jail, but instead to send a lot of violent offenders straight home. This is part and parcel of the “defund the police” movement and the “abolish prison” movement. It’s a step towards legalizing violent crime.

 Posted by at 11:58 pm
Sep 102022
 

Memphis had a spree shooting incident a few days ago. Why did the shooter, one Ezekiel Kelly, do this? Hard to say. But there’s a little detail that seems kinda important. A detail that had it been different, might have led to a very different outcome. From THIS LINK:

In February 2020, Kelly was charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder, possession of a firearm and reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon, court records obtained by Heavy show. A grand jury indicted on him on those charges in June 2020. He was 17 years old at the time.

He pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in April 2021 and was sentenced to three years in prison. Kelly served only 11 months in prison and was released only about six months ago, authorities said in the news conference.

Huh.

For starters, he tried to murder someone and was sentenced to only three years… and then only served eleven months. If the justice system actually worked, he would still be in the early stages of his “life plus ninety days to help stink up the joint” sentence. Murderers – actual murderers, not people who kill in self defense, or purely accidentally, etc. – need to be separated from society *permanently.* And attempted murderers are simply murderers who are slightly less competent, and thus should receive the same sentence.

People need to start suing government officials responsible for letting murderers walk among us.

 

 Posted by at 10:18 am
Sep 072022
 

Reminds me somewhat of DC’s recently finished-but-canceled “Batgirl” movie:

World’s biggest cruise ship is set to be sold for scrap before first voyage as owners go bankrupt: $1.6BILLION vessel was built with 20-decks and a WATER PARK

The “Global Dream II” cost more than *billion* dollars and is structurally complete but currently lacking in finishing touches (reportedly $200 million dollars to go). It’s 1,122 feet long and design to carry nine THOUSAND passengers. What astonished me the most, apart for the utter failure that this represents, is that it was apparently built indoors. The cruise line that paid for it went bankrupt and apparently could not find a buyer for the ship, so it’s to be broken up for scrap. The waste involved here is breathtaking. Think of all that could be done with a vessel like that. Granted, it’s a civilian cruise liner, and that comes with certain definite limitations; any idea of turning it into a combat vessel (it’s certainly big enough to be a creditable aircraft carrier) kinda go right out the window. But perhaps it could have made a dandy hospital ship. Or a floating apartment block.

 

It reminds me, because of course it does, of my “War With the Deep Ones” story “Champion of the Seas,” which you can get here:

War With The Deep Ones: Champion Of the Seas

 Posted by at 11:46 am