Apr 112009
 

For a limited time (until I delete it… ha!) Space Document 3, “The Story Of Peenemunde, Or What Might Have Been. is on sale for $7.50 to download. Normal price… $15.00. Get it while the gettin’s good!
The only place you’ll see this sale is this blog posting, so if you want in, click the “Add to Cart” below.

SALE IS OVER. You should have checked back sooner! 

 Posted by at 10:24 pm
Apr 112009
 

I’ve been takign the kittens out back in a 5-gallon bucket for photography purposes (and because the neighbor kids want to see ’em… I’ve not much use for kids, but what the hell). They are not yet big enough to get themselves out of the bucket, but they’re big enough to raise a racket. And not all cats seem sympathetic. Some are downright antagonistic.

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 Posted by at 5:17 pm
Apr 102009
 

Up for auction, if you have a bucket of money burning a hole in your pocket…

Submarine miniature from The Man from Atlantis

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Humphrey Bogart JA-3 miniature in Chain Lightning (I’ve never even heard of this movie)

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Battle tank design from Battlestar Galactica

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Space ship filming miniature from Starcrash

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Harrison Ford Deckard hero blaster – Blade Runner (c’mon… who *doesn’t* want this???)

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Hero crystal shard prop from The Dark Crystal

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Phaser from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

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Concept art Hunter/Killer Tank from The Terminator

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Screen-used Hunter/Killer Tank from The Terminator

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Hero aerial Hunter/Killer – The Terminator

“This 1/6th-scale Aerial HK is created of steel, aluminum, fiberglass wood and resin and measures 43 in. long x 27 in. wide.” There’s yer dimensions…

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 Posted by at 10:22 pm
Apr 102009
 

TCPALM:

Victor Leon is alone in the hospital most days.

The 26-year-old was paralyzed nearly three years ago when he fell from the roof of a three-story building in Palm City while working for Jupiter-based Altec Roofing. Since then, Leon has been mired in a legal battle to get workers’ compensation benefits or legal damages from Altec.

Leon is an illegal immigrant. His status puts him at the crux of a legal debate over what rights, if any, illegal workers have after being injured on a job for which the American government says they never should have been hired.

“It’s sort of a legal limbo,” said Chad Hastings, Leon’s attorney. “He’s in a place where basically the American government is saying, ‘Go die somewhere.’ “

Injured on the job. So, he should get workers comp. BUT: as an illegal immigrant, he was breaking the law at the time he was injured. He was injured in the course of breaking the law.

Consequently: provide him with emergency medical care… then ship his ass back to Mexico and send him the bill. If he doesn’t pay… fine. Have the US State Department re-imburse the hospital for its costs (already about half a million$$). Then have the State Department collect that money from the Mexican government.

Not that difficult to figure *this* one out, is it.

UPDATE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZxyqMrb0uU

I’m pretty sure that’s relevant.

 Posted by at 7:18 pm
Apr 102009
 

A “false flag” operation is one in which a military force pretends to be the *other* guy, and then causes trouble for their own side… the idea being that the press will dutifully report that The Other Guy has caused trouble for Our Side, and we better go and kick their ass. For the 9-11 Truthers, the 9-11 attacks were jsut such an operation… a CIA/Mossad/Zeta Reticulan Space Lizard operation designed to make Muslims look bad so we could go and steal their oil. That was, of course, pure bullshit, but it’d nevertheless believed by many.

The irony here is that the kind of people most likely to believe that 9-11 was a “false flag” (leftist whackjobs) are likely to engage in their own “false flag” operations in the coming days…

ACORN, HuffPo Organizing Efforts to Infiltrate Tax Day Tea Parties

On Fox News Channel’s April 7 “Your World,” host Neil Cavuto reported that the Tax Day tea party protests on April 15 will be “infiltrated” by their political opponents and led by left-wing activist organizations. He specifically named Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).

“Only eight days before a nationwide tea party, some over-caffeinated crashers aiming to lay waste to it,” Cavuto said. “Reports of very well-organized infiltrators trying to mix in and rain on this parade. Talk about taxing.”

Left-wingers have become experts at protests , while right-wingers are kinda naive about such things. Let’s face it: when was the last time you saw rightwingers protesting in the sorts of numbers that left-wing anti-war/globalization/Bush/capitalism/etc rallies had? Right-wingers just generally don’t go in for that sort of thing in the US. Perhaps having something to do with, oh, I dunno, maybe having *jobs* or something. But leftist agitators and “civic organizers” and such are downright geniuses at it. So it’s only natural that they’ll want to disrupt the “tea parties.” And not by wading in with Union thugs and busting heads. No, the way to ruin the effectiveness of a “tea party” is to make the experience look like the racist ravings of right wingnuts. This can be done by pretending to be:

1) Racists (“get rid of the Mexicans/whatever,” with likely use of racial epithets)

2) Theocrats (“Let’s get rid of the atheists/Jews/Muslims/whatever”)

3) Creationists (“Darwin is at fault for the economy!”)

4) Conspiracy nuts (“The Jews/Bildebergers/Illuminatti are behind the economy”)

5) Militant gun nuts (“Let’s start shooting people who disagree with the Right”)

6) Generic loons (“Ron Paul won the election!”)

So if you’re at a “tea party” and someone like this starts spouting up, make *damn* sure that you do your best to surround them with signs pointing them out as leftist infiltrators. Film not only them, but the people around them… and keep filming them even after they have been expelled or shut up (if they ever do). Because there’s this little feature:

In fact, The Huffington Post has even set up a Web site for so-called citizen journalists to infiltrate the protests.

“The Huffington Post wants to have citizen journalists at as many of these events as possible,” Arthur Delaney wrote for The Huffington Post on April 7. “If you think you’d be interested in attending one of the Tea Parties and reporting back to us with dispatches, photos, or video, click here to sign up. We’ll contact you shortly with further instructions.”

There are going to be *two* types of leftists at these parties: those behaving like Hollywood stereotype rightwinguts… and those with videocameras trained on them, ready to show that jackholery to the world.

Those behind the tea parties seem to have a childlike innocence of what they are really up against:

John O’Hara, organizer of the Chicago Tea Party said he wasn’t worried either about these sorts of efforts and specifically named ACORN, calling them out of touch with mainstream America.

“Neil, I’m not worried about it at all,” O’Hara said. “This is a genuine grassroots movement. If ACORN wants to send some of their paid, pretend activists to show up – that’s fine. They don’t have a message that resonates with the American people or resonates with this broad coalition that’s upset with this spending that’s going on in Washington.”

John, the problem won’t be the ACORN types who show up waving the Che Guevara “More Socialism Now” signs. Really, they won’t. The problem will be the ACORN types who show up looking to destroy the tea party from within.

 Posted by at 7:00 pm
Apr 092009
 

A few days back I made a fun day of going to the tax prep place *and* stopping by the vets to pick up a bit of meds for the kittens (they all seem to have some common eye infection… easy to deal with, but… bleah). The vets office has now acquired its own officecat, apparently named “Mr. P.” I’m guessing that’s how it’s spelled, anyway. Friendly feller.

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 Posted by at 11:08 pm
Apr 092009
 

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I’ve been working with Justo Miranda to make his Dossiers available online as downloadable PDF files. Things are ready to go… nine of his dossiers are available for purchase right now, with the rest to come along soon (it takes a while to scan & prepare these publications, since I’m shooting for high quality). They are available for purchase via PayPal, and are currently *half* the price of the original paper editions. Soon the whole publication catalog will be available for purchase via Paypal, downloadable directly to your computer.

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Previously difficult to come by, the “Reichdreams Dossiers” cover aspects of the designs of WWII German and Allied advanced aircraft and weapons projects, presenting them with high-quality diagrams, masterpieces of the draftsmans art. All issues are scanned at 300dpi, full-color or grayscale where appropriate, with images cleaned and color corrected for highest quality. Check back regularly – or request to be put on the e-mailing list – for updates.As of April 9, 2009, Dossiers # 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 20 are available.

http://www.up-ship.com/blog/drawndoc/rd/rd.htm

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 Posted by at 12:25 am
Apr 082009
 

Todays Independent has a hell of an article about Dubai. There’s far too much good stuff to choose quotes from… just go and read the whole thing. It’s seriously creepifyin’. Dubai is, I think, a good microcosm for not just the US, not just the West, but for the whole world. It’s a tiny little closed place; a nanny state that needs to constantly import slave labor to keep the standards of living high for the unproductive; a place that has devoted far too much of it’s riches to glitz and glamour than to permanent infrastructure.

Look at Dubai, and consider that what’s happening there now will be writ large across the world if we don’t get off our asses and build a few hundred terawatts of modern nuclear powerplants, right quick.  And follow that up with some serious space industrialization.

 Posted by at 10:01 pm
Apr 082009
 

From the AP comes a story to set your head a-scratchin’. The summary:

1) Your baby is DOOMED. It’s going to die soon, no matter what you do.

2) Some other kid in the same hospital is also DOOMED, unless it gets a new heart. *Just* like the one your kid has.

3) The other kid is fading fast.

4) Your kid, however is fading slowly.

Do you kill your kid to save the other kid?

 Posted by at 6:38 pm