Watch in stunned amazement as administration spokesweasel Jay Carney avoids answering a simple question about Israel:
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Jul 272012
Jul 272012
Democratic senators offer gun control amendment for cybersecurity bill
The amendment was sponsored by Democratic Sens. Frank Lautenberg (N.J.), Barbara Boxer (Calif.), Jack Reed (R.I.), Bob Menendez (N.J.), Kirsten Gillibrand (N.Y.), Schumer and Dianne Feinstein (Calif.). S.A. 2575 would make it illegal to transfer or possess large capacity feeding devices such as gun magazines, belts, feed stripes and drums of more than 10 rounds of ammunition with the exception of .22 caliber rim fire ammunition.
It never freakin’ ends with these power-mad wannabe tyrants. The sad thing is that they are firmly embedded in states where a voting majority of public has accepted sub-citizen status, so they’ll just keep getting re-elected. Gah.
Well, keep an eye on this one. Anyone who votes for this monstrosity, vote ’em out in November if you can.
Keep in mind, this ten-round limit will affect not just the mythical “assault weapons on our streets,” but the majority of *pistols* as well.
Jul 272012
Finally, it can be answered: what does it sound like when the manager of a Dollar General WHAMs a burglar upside the head with an aluminum baseball bat, and the whole thing is recorded by 911? Here, find out:
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The one where a Dollar General manager hit a thief in the head with an aluminum baseball bat
Jul 262012
After all the trouble I had some time back trying to hammer the Amazon search box into my blog, it turns out that not only was I going about it wrong, but the right way was incredibly easy. Hmmmph.
Anyway, there it is. Feel free to use it to start all your Amazon searches. Turns out you can buy laptops and computers and such through Amazon… so if you have a need, or a driving urge, to buy a few hundred thousand dollars worth of stuff, feel free to start here.
Jul 262012
A basic schematic showing the operation and parts of the General Electric TF-39 high bypass turbofan engine, from the C-5A Galaxy flight manual.
Jul 262012
Interesting and useful, if rather limited in envelope-pushing:
NASA tests inflatable space heat shield
This test was via sounding rocket, at a seriously suborbital speed of only 7,600 mph. I seem to recall that the Russians tested one some years ago, but that they lost it.
An inflatable heat shield is just the thing needed for space-based industries. Thirty years ago, NASA was flackin’ the notion that orbital industries would crank out crystals and drugs and microchips in zero-g, and use the Space Shuttle to take them to Earth. As it happened, manufacturing processes for all of these got a whole lot better, and the need for zero-g manufacturing evaporated. Still, with the prospect of asteroid mining and the like, the possibility exists that there might someday actually be things in orbit other than humans that would be worth more on the ground; in that case, bringing them down cheaply and reliably would the the order of the day. And a simple inflatable re-entry system, if it can be proven out, would be perhaps more reliable, and certainly vastly cheaper, than using something like the Orion capsule or a Space Shuttle.
“People” come down in style. “Stuff” takes the freight elevator.
EDIT: The idea of an inflatable heat shield is not new. The Douglas Reusable One-Stage Orbital Space Truck (ROOST) was a giant space booster design from 1962 that used a similar idea.
Jul 262012
Just had a visit from some nice door-to-door used religion salesmen. I don’t think they got out of it what they were expecting… getting shut down real early and preached at about the Gospel Of Terraforming And Nuclear Fusion Powerplants didn’t seem to be what they were trained for.
Man, but they were *ignorant.* Sigh.
Jul 252012
Egyptians seem to like “Candid Camera” shows with some dubious ideas. I remember seeing clips from such a show a quarter century ago where someone would walk up to a random person on the street, drop a briefcase next to them and run away. The clear implication was that the briefcase was a bomb, and the random person would freak out to howls of studio audience canned laughter.
A recent “candid camera” show plays a little prank on what are apparently Egyptian celebrities… actors, comedians, etc. The prank: the celebrity thinks he’s being interviewed by a German TV crew, but at some point it slips out that the crew is actually Israeli. Hilarity ensues. If, that is, you define “hilarity” as “rage and violence, including beating the tar out of a woman.”
And at the end of each segment, when the celebrity is informed that it’s actually an Egyptian “candid camera” crew, everyone has a good laugh and they talk about how wonderfully patriotic the celebrity is for trying to kill Jews on sight.
Gah.
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Jul 252012
The F-111 was one of those aircraft for which a *vast* number of designs were put forth. While General Dynamics won the contract, they went through a long design development for their final design. As of December 1961, the design was clearly *almost* the F-111 as it would eventually be built, but not quite:
Jul 252012
Here’s more lawsuit-bait:
James Holmes Sent Notebook To Psychiatrist Before Colorado ‘Dark Knight’ Massacre, Report Says
Short form: before Sideshow Bob went on his rampage, he sent a notebook to a University of Colorado psychiatrist, describing what he planned to do. This was not one of those times where the badguy drops the package into the mailbox on his way out the door to commit the crime; apparently the notebook has been sitting in the university mail room since July 12, unopened.
Oops.
And this being the “Huffington Post,” you bet, there are some exquisitely ignert commenters. Like:
No one has learned anything since Columbine. How fully auto weapons are legal in Colorado is beyond me…
Indeed it is.