Sep 142019
 

I get a subtle hint here that Tim Pool is not a fan of Beto O’Rourke:

Yeah, O’Rourke defeats the lie that “nobody wants to take your guns.” He is quite open about the fact that he wants to make sure that the ability to commit violence is restricted solely to the government and to the criminals; the vast majority of the citizenry is, in his view, to be rendered defenseless.

Yes, Beto is a terrible human being, an example of the worst form of power-mad wannabe tyrant that genetics and upbringing can produce. But he is also a has-been nobody, with no chance of getting the Dem nomination. Like Swalwell, he’s a little more than a jumped -up streetcorner sign-waver, desperately trying to get people to pay attention to him.

The bigger issue here is that the Democratic party and the other candidates are not denouncing him and his proposed policies. At most they are annoyed that he has produced a readily repeated sound bite that will doubtless be used by people who do *NOT* want to disarm and neuter the populace. The Dems aren’t shouting their support for the Constitution or the people’s rights. They are not calling for O’Roarke and Swalwell to be run out of the party on a rail. This is important. The likes of O’Roarke and Swalwell are *gleeful* in their desire to enact laws that they know full well are not only unConstitutional, but which will set the people against the government and *will* lead to bloodshed. The likes of O’Roarke and Swalwell and Warren and Breadline are pushing for or accepting of policies that will, for no good purpose, push the US towards another Civil War. And the likes of Swalwell have already “joked” about using weapons of mass destruction against American population centers in order to terrorize the remaining beaten populace into kowtowing to the will of a totalitarian government. As much as the media likes to scream about how Trump caters to racists via dog whistles, the Dems actually support, defend and protect the genocidal anti-Semites in their midst and the civil-warmongering democidal monsters like O’Roarke. Note not just the nonsensical fear-mongering blather that idiot-child Beto spews forth here, but also listen to the crowd: when he says “Hell yes we’re going to take your AR-15,” the crowd of Dem whackjobs in attendance goes nuts with joyful applause at the notion of a government that sweeps across the land kicking in doors and shooting homeowners, leading to the worst democide this side of the Soviet era.

Never forget that.

 

 

 Posted by at 6:43 pm
Sep 142019
 

When “Men In Black: International” came out, I somehow gave it a pass. It just didn’t seem interesting. Which was a shame, because the original Men In Black was a *dayumed* entertaining flick. But it was also unsurprising… the second one was “meh” and the third one I can barely recall.

This review, though, makes it plain that my lack of seeing “MIB:I” was far and away the right choice. It seems that the main character is the very definition of a Mary Sue… lazily written, perfect at everything, achieves all her goals effortlessly, everyone loves her. Ho. lee. Cap. That’s just tragic. In my “Zaneverse” stories, the main characters are involved in some amazing things, but I at least *try*  to get them there honestly. And the main character is flawed to the point of being a downright ᚠᚪᛣᚳᚪᛇᛈ . He’s kinda the definition of “utterly non-special.” But the MIB:I  main character seems to have been written specifically to appeal to the lowest common SJW denominator… which, given how the movie tanked at the box office, was not a good financial decision.

Perfect characters are ᚠᛣᚳᛝ boring. If I every write a story where someone is called “The Chosen One” and seems to be fulfilling the trope, expect him to get shot in the nuts with a ten-gauge by page 3.

 Posted by at 2:16 pm
Sep 132019
 

Hard to tell the difference these days, especially with public education.

As we ponder the decline and fall of western civilization driven by the dumbing down of education, here is another video, a cautionary tale  of a cat driven mad by Soviet popular music. Even though the Soviets are gone, the effects they have had – from aiding the left in the long-con of convincing westerners that science and math are racist to fomenting the anti-nuclear industry in order to trash the entire planets via carbon dioxide – continue almost unabated. Perhaps the fact that Communism, Socialism, Fascism and similar and related collectivist kleptocratic systems have been utterly discredited has only made them more powerful: too many people refuse to even consider that their PC notions aren’t really theirs, but are the result of some KGB dirty tricks division project from fifty years ago.

 

 Posted by at 10:53 pm
Sep 122019
 

Continuing…

In 1985 Rockwell considered the business case for a small unmanned research vehicle to be released from the Orbiter payload bay. It would be *something* akin to the X-37, though of an utterly different lifting body configuration.

Also note: this vehicle re-appears later in the report, including a nice three-view of an “operational” version.

 Posted by at 11:33 pm
Sep 122019
 

One of the formerly great things about National Geographic magazine was the map that would be included in every other issue or so. Some years ago they began tapering off, now the maps are a thing of the past.

I have a collection of Nat Geo maps  somewhat more than 2 linear feet thick. Anybody want ’em? Gimme an offer, either email me or post in the comments. Postage might be pricey, I don’t think they can go via media mail since they are not bound.

 Posted by at 5:03 pm
Sep 112019
 

As time goes by, I find more and more unhappy customers… not because I’m turning out a crappy product or not filling orders, but because the emails i send out are directed into spam buckets. I *assume* that this is because the emails have one or more, sometimes many, HTML links in them, and the spam filters read them as, well, spam. But an email exchange usually fixes that right up.

One problem that I can’t seem to fix, however, is orders from the “free.fr” email system. Multiple machines, multiple email systems, all messages sent to “free.fr” addresses bounce back as undeliverable because the system has, through presumably the same process as he spam filters, decided that these messages are spam, and has successfully blocked me out. So if you have a free.fr email address and don;t get a reply from me, *ever,* contact me via a *different* email.

 Posted by at 11:20 am
Sep 112019
 

It should surprise nobody that time passes, but it somehow still seems remarkable that the 9-11 attacks were eighteen years ago today. I was on the other side of the continent in California, working at an ICBM factory south of San Jose; and even though there were no attacks our way, that didn’t stop the rumor machine from *inventing* attacks. A truck bomb in town? Turned out to be a vehicle backfiring. A tanker detonating in Discovery Bay? Nope. A truck bomb on one of the major bridges? A truck that had legitimately broken down. The bobcat that was looking down on me from three feet above in an outdoor boneyard as I dug through ten-year-old bits and pieces looking for usable parts of cruise missile booster motors so we could get production back up and running again ASAP? That was real enough, but that was less of an “attack” and more of a “curious kitty.”

And now people who were born on that, and even several years prior, who have no recollection of a world *without* 9-11 and the resulting cultural, political military and legal changes, are adults. This just weirds me out.

 Posted by at 8:07 am
Sep 102019
 

… And now I can’t log into the APR Blog to make new posts or edit the existing ones. Gaaaahhhhhhrrrrrr.

UPDATE, the next day: aerospaceprojectsreview.com and the blog all *seem* to be working just fine again. If you have any trouble… sigh, let me know in the comments…

 Posted by at 7:47 pm