‘Batman’ brings in suspect to Bradford police
A man dressed as the caped crusader Batman has handed over a wanted man at a Bradford police station before disappearing into the night.
Huh.
Mar 042013
Mar 042013
Taylor Wilson, 18-year-old previously mentioned HERE, has apparently designed a compact nuclear fission reactor capable of 50 to 100 megawatts, with claims that serial production could begin within five years. Whether he’s on the money or off his rocker, I don’t know. I’d be interested in seeing what actual Nuke E’s think of the design.
Mar 042013
Tehran Battles Plague of ‘Mutant’ Giant Rats with Army Snipers
Claim: Tehran is being overrun by five-kilogram rats, that officials say are mutants created via either radiation or chemicals. Snipers with infra-red scopes are being stationed around town at night to battle the New York-sized rats.
Mar 032013
Another photo (via the NASA HQ History Office) of the Lockheed STAR Clipper. This was an early stage-and-a-half concept with a reusable orbiter and expendable propellant tanks. Note that this version does not have an aerodynamic fairing over the noses of the the propellant tanks. Vastly more info on this is available in APR issue V3N2.
Mar 032013
I don’t watch near as much TV as I once did, and most of the time it’s on, it’s solely as background noise. However, today I happened to see a listing for something I just had to watch: “Russian Neo-Nazis.”
Current TV, which Anti-Carbon-Dioxide-Warrior Al Gore sold to Al Jazeera (which in turn is owned by the oil emirate Qatar), is a largely laughable network. Most of the shows have truly abysmal ratings, and chances are good that a large fraction of the audience are actually right-wing bloggers looking for things to bitch about (uhhh…). Still, they have a documentary series titled “Vanguard” that is generally actually pretty interesting. One of the documentaries was the a fore-mentioned “Russian Neo-Nazis.”
There were two moments of spectacular cognitive dissonance. The first was just the title. After Israel, one would expect Russia to be just about the last place in the world you’d find an active neo-Nazi movement… but there it is. Neo-Nazis in Russia are merrily going about the business of beating – and killing – immigrants from central Asia. The documentary shows a celebration of Hitlers birthday… held in a public park in Moscow.
The topic is sufficiently weird on its own. But Current TV has a political bias it has to uphold, so they had to throw in some partisan political digs. But the dig that I caught was itself a spectacular example of either cognitive dissonance, or a political Big Lie.
About six minutes in, they introduce Nikolai Kuryanovich, former Liberal Democrat Party member, current national socialist member of the “Slavic Union” organization, and apparently linked to the National Socialist Organization. Hanging on his office wall? Portrait of Stalin. Also, a photoshop of his head on Stalins body. How is he described by the narrator? “Outspoken ultra-right-wing politician.”
Buh?
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The dude is an advocate of big government, aligns himself with socialists, worships Stalin. And he’s somehow “ultra-right wing?”
Muh???
Mar 032013
To my reading this section of the US Code would seem to permit lawsuits against, say, legislators who pass laws that infringe on Constitutionally protected rights. So why isn’t Diane Feinstein tied up in the courts 24/7?
Every person who under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, Suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer’s judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable. For the purposes of this section, any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia.
This might perhaps be a legal remedy against the gun grabbers: sue the bejeesus out of them, individually, repeatedly, non-stop, until they either change their unConstitutional ways or are left destitute, unable to afford personal bodyguards or 16-ounce sodas.
EDIT: Whoops, looks like legislators are granted “absolute immunity.” Feh. But municipalities are not, nor are individual employees of the government. So, sue any city government, cop, sheriff or agent who tries to gungrab. A few lessons of *that* where ATF guys lose their homes to plaintiffs’ lawyers, or a few city halls get transferred to the NRA to be turned into firearms museums, might put the kibosh on unConstitutional gungrabs.
Mar 022013
I think I’m about done with the CAD drawings. Maybe a few more, but only a few.
Mar 022013
Rockwell artwork from the late 1970s depicting the launch of a HiMAT (Highly Maneuverable Aircraft Technology) subscale remotely piloted test vehicle from a B-52 carrier plane. While HiMAT was based on the design of a full-sized advanced fighter, it was a valuable program in its own right, demonstrating new structural materials (such as carbon fiber) and computerized flight controls.
Mar 022013
Popular Standard Shotgun Could Be Banned Under Proposed Bill
This Colorado bill bans any magazine that can be converted to hold more than 8 shotgun shells. But the standard tube-fed shotgun can be easily modified with an extender to hold more than 8 shells. Thus the standard pump shotgun would be illegal.
Not mentioned in the article… there are shotgun shells of shorter than standard length, such as the 1.5 inch long Aquila minishells. Where you might get 6 standard length shotgun shells in an unmodified tube magazine, you might get 12 of the minishells in the same tube. Thus a pump shotgun that was built to *not* be extendable may very well still be illegal under this bill.
Additionally: for virtually every pistol caliber, there is a “snake shot” load readily available. So where a fifteen-round pistol magazine might at first glance appear legal under this new law, the ability to load it with snake shot would mean it would be illegal.
Additionally: you can keep your pre-ban shotgun, so long as you maintain constant possession of it. This means that if it breaks, you cannot give it to a gunsmith to fix.
I am unwilling to assume that this sort of thing is due to the gun grabbers *not* having thought things through. It seems far more likely that this is what it is… a way to ban far, far more than they claim on the surface.
Mar 012013
As PSA’s go, this one is durned entertaining. Have you ever seen a cuter depiction of multiple horrible deaths?