February 2017 – Page 6 – The Unwanted Blog

Man sets off explosive at Cheesecake Factory in Pasadena; no injuries

The article is loaded with a lack of details. A homemade explosive that gave off a lot of smoke but caused no injuries and minimal damage… some sort of smoke bomb, perhaps? Or a pipe bomb that fizzled? A Molotov cocktail that didn’t bust open?

And then there’s this fountain of data:

The suspect was described as about 6 feet tall with a thin build and a heavy beard. He was wearing all black clothing and a black beanie.

The was a six foot tall man with a beard. Maybe white. Maybe black. Maybe Indian. Maybe Japanese. That beard could have as easily been blond as black or red.

Protests, Violence Prompt UC Berkeley to Cancel Milo Yiannopoulos Event

Leftists responding with a terroristic temper tantrum?

Here’s a woman being interviewed and then getting assaulted for having the wrong politics:

And here they are beating a man down in the streets, and then continuing to beat on him once he’s down:

Probably safe to assume that we’ll be seeing a whole lot more of this sort of thing. A few days back someone sucker punched Richard Spencer in the street. Not that big a deal on its own… just one guy hitting another guy. Spencer is the “alt right” guy who did the “hail Trump” nonsense a while back, a “neo-Nazi” feller. After Spencer was punched, there was a *lot* of chatter online about whether it was ok to physically assault Nazis, and the general consensus seems to have been “yes.” On one hand… fark Nazis. But on the other hand, the Left has spent *years* tossing the “Nazi” epithet around, calling anyone who disagrees with them a Nazi or a fascist. So they have in essence been making the argument that it not only acceptable but *praiseworthy* to physically assault Republicans, libertarians, centrists… anyone they don’t agree with. Hell, **I* have been repeatedly called a fascist over the years when I have argued in favor of a small government that is Constitutionally restrained and limited in power with minimal negative impact on the freedoms of the citizenry. These jackholes don’t know what “fascism” really means, but they do know that it’s ok to attack fascists and that they can declare anyone they like a fascist.

So… yeah. Get used to this.

One of the bigger local news stories here in Utah right now is an inversion squatting over the Salt Lake valley, turning the air quality into garbage. Worst air in the USA just now, in fact.

One of the reasons for this is the Wasatch Mountains (i.e. the walls of Mordor) that create a north-south barrier on the eastern side of Salt Lake City. It takes a good storm to blow the air in SLC up and over the mountains. In effect, climate and topography have teamed up to make things bad for humans. So since nature has gone to war against Mankind, we should fight back.

A simple solution would seem to present itself: the thousands of feet of damn-near vertical walls backing up SLC should be breached. Done properly, this would create an outlet for the air, like poking a hole in a dam. And what better way is there than nuclear explosives?

The last American nuclear detonation was way, waaaaaaay back in 1992. There are some blog readers who were surely born well after that (thanks for making me feel old, once again). There are people who were born after that who have achieved advanced degrees in nuclear engineering. Imagine it: a degree in something that hasn’t occurred in your lifetime, and it’s not a history degree.

So, an operation to nuke a hole in the Wasatch range would be useful on many levels. This is not something that could or should be slapped together overnight, but perhaps a five or ten year program. A great deal of study to determine how many nukes where to create what sort of breach. An operation to develop all-new nukes for civil engineering, with a series of tests in the Nevada test range. And then the actual operation to blast a channel through the mountains. I would tentatively suggest a hundred or so detonations along the current route of I-80 to lower the level and broaden it, and a similar series paralleling that, perhaps ten to twenty miles north and another to the south. The eminent domain issues would be pretty substantial, but Utah could, I think, generate the funds needed by the simple expedient of charging property taxes on Utah land currently controlled by the Federal government (the feds control 34.2 million acres of Utah… charge ’em a nominal $500 per acre per year, that’d be a nice $17.1 billion per year).

The detonations themselves would be most likely a slow process. Starting way off in the relatively unpopulated east and marching west, one blast at a time, with each westward blast adjusted based on the current state of things. The last blasts would have to be carefully calibrated and placed so that the mountains slide down to the east, rather than falling west into the cities… that would of course be non-optimal. There would be a vast amount of dirt and rock that would need to be hauled away, a process liable to take several years. An obvious place to put this slightly radioactive rubble would be in Bingham Canyon… humans dug a giant hole in the ground to pull out copper and other metals; what better for it afterwards than to fill it back up?

The new wind-channels carved through the mountains would not only let the crappy air flow out, but would also funnel winds though, making them good locations for wind turbines for power generation. And when the wind stops, you could feed power into the windmills from the terawatt-class nuclear powerplants floating in the re-worked Great Salt Lake to turn them into blowers to suck the air through…