Commissar Occasional-Cortex has excreted the text for her “Green New Deal.” Guess what: through sheer willpower and a stern defiance of physics and economics, the United States will ditch fossil fuels entirely and learn to subsist on breezes and sunshine.

The full text of this bill is here:

Green New Deal FINAL

I look forward to how the midwest and northeast will bravely face the polar vortexes of the future when the sun doesn’t come out for weeks and the wing turbines are frozen solid. I’m sure the subject of this brave new world will happily sacrifice themselves on the altar of socialist progressivism.

Go on and read the bill. It makes just about every promise imaginable including getting rid of the “gender wage gap,” clean water for all (which, given a complete abandonment of fossil fuels means that millions and millions of automobiles and airplanes and furnaces and ovens and stoves and water heaters and barbecue grills will have to be thrown out, likely into lakes and ponds and rivers and Bambi habitats), complete employment *and* an end to homelessness (which I can see socialists accomplishing by the simple expedient of rounding up the homeless and putting them to work in gulags).

Of course, there’s no reference to a nuclear power renaissance. Nor to space travel, colonization and industrialization. Can you afford to yank the gas furnace out of your house and replace it with an all-electric system? I can’t. Nor is there a refence to just how in hell these authoritarians trolls think that they can get Americans to get rid of their cars. Can you afford to toss out your old beater and buy a brand new all-electric vehicle? I sure as hell can’t. I can’t afford a *used* electric car. Hell, I can’t afford a used beater. I got what I got and I gotta hope it holds up as long as possible.

But I think some of this might well be part of the plan. Cant afford the government mandates? Well, have they got an answer for you: sell your home at cut-rate prices either to the government or to favored developers, and move into public housing. Make do with public transport. Give up all that nonsense about living out away from the authorities. “Individualism” is a thing of the past. “Freedom” to go where you will, when you will, is not a part of the five year plan. Learn to make do with less, to aim lower, to keep your horizons good and close.

UPDATE:

Along with the text of the bill, the genetic defectives who were behind this travesty also produced an “overview” explaining just what the frak they want. For readers of this blog, they make it clear that one of the things they want is to end the age of aviation.

Yes, we are calling for a full transition off fossil fuels and zero greenhouse gases.
Anyone who has read the resolution sees that we spell this out through a plan that
calls for eliminating greenhouse gas emissions from every sector of the economy.
Simply banning fossil fuels immediately won’t build the new economy to replace it –
this is the plan to build that new economy and spells out how to do it technically. We
do this through a huge mobilization to create the renewable energy economy as fast
as possible. We set a goal to get to net-zero, rather than zero emissions, in 10 years
because we aren’t sure that we’ll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and
airplanes that fast, but we think we can ramp up renewable manufacturing and
power production, retrofit every building in America, build the smart grid, overhaul
transportation and agriculture, plant lots of trees and restore our ecosystem to get
to net-zero.

And…

National mobilization our economy through 14 infrastructure and
industrial projects. Every project strives to remove greenhouse gas
emissions and pollution from every sector of our economy:

Totally overhaul transportation by massively expanding electric vehicle
manufacturing, build charging stations everywhere, build out highspeed
rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary, create
affordable public transit available to all, with goal to replace every
combustion-engine vehicle

Pester every politician you meet who supports this to explain what kind of high speed rail project they are proposing to connect Hawaii to California and Japan and Australia.

But wait! There’s more! Act now, and you’ll also receive a heaping helping of anti-nuclear stupidity!

A Green New Deal is a massive investment in renewable energy production and
would not include creating new nuclear plants. It’s unclear if we will be able to
decommission every nuclear plant within 10 years, but the plan is to transition off of
nuclear and all fossil fuels as soon as possible. No one has put the full 10-year plan
together yet, and if it is possible to get to fully 100% renewable in 10 years, we will
do that.

If this is what these… “people” want for aviation, just imagine what they want for space flight.

A few days ago, Irish acting unit Liam Neeson made a rather startling admission: 40 years ago in Ireland a female friend of his was raped by a black man, and in the rage that followed Neeson walked the streets with a club. He wasn’t hunting the rapist, but was instead hoping that just *any* black guy would decide to attack him, and then he’d beat the feller to death. This rage apparently lasted a few days and then dissipated. He told nobody about it at the time, and it was the sort of tale that he could have *easily* carried with him till he died with nobody suspecting a thing. The story brings up a few immediate questions:

How many black men were there in Ireland 40 years ago?
Of those that were there, how many would have been likely to see a tall, young, *angry* Irishman walking about and would have thought to themselves, “Yes, I do believe I shall set upon that clearly harmless young man and attempt to perform acts of violence and ill will upon him.”
WTF was Neeson *thinking?* Not *then,* but just a few days ago.

A friend of yours gets raped, your ability to remain calm and rational will evaporate. You will think and behave in dubious ways. But *40* years later in Current Year you’d think he’d have the sense to keep his trap shut. A white man expressing anger towards black men as a group? That’s just plain politically incorrect. In an age when some kid just standing there politely smiling is rage-inducing enough among the far left to inspire death threats, someone who lives in the world of public relations should know better. Something he should have seen coming is the insta-mob mentality calling for the termination of his career. Behold:

Calls for Liam Neeson to be digitally removed from ‘Men In Black’ after racist comments

So far as I can tell, Neeson broke no laws, he just admitted to having had DoublePlusUnGood thoughts when he was a much younger man. So the comparisons to the replacing of Kevin Spacey with Christopher Plummer in “All The Money In The World” seems a bit excessive. But then, we’re living in a world where the only acceptable response to minor annoyance is outrage pegged at 11. While I doubt Neeson will be removed from “Men In Black,” I can certainly see his future acting prospects dimming, perhaps slamming down in Mel Gibsonian proportions. And there is no possibility that Neeson could not have foreseen this outcome himself. So another question seems obvious:

Was this his plan all along?

Liam Neeson is sixty six years old. That’s still *kinda* young by Hollywood Male Acting Unit standards, but his roles these days seem to be more or less limited to action movies. perhaps he’s sick of them. Perhaps he’s *physically* sick of them, believing that a few more of them will break his tired body and deny him the enjoyment of his coming years. I have no idea what his financial status is, but I imagine he’s pretty well off, more than able to sit back and relax int he lap of luxury for the rest of his life. it thus seems at least possible that he did this as a way to potential get out of future action roles that he is contractually obligated to subject himself to.

Realistically, he just had a brain fart and told a story he’s kept bottled up with no strategic planning. But who knows. Maybe he’s smarter than the average actron.

Lockheed’s entry into the FAA’s 1960’s Supersonic Transport contest was the L-2000. It was an appealing design, sort of a super-sized and angular Concorde. it lost to the Boeing 2707 due in no small part to the 2707’s swing wings… wings which wound up being fixed, like those of the L-2000.

In 1965 Lockheed released an exploded view of the L-2000’s structure, reproduced in Aviation Week, split across two pages. I took the images and fixed them; the full-size end result is pretty spiffy. I have uploaded the illustration, and two additional L-2000 images to the 2019-02 APR Extras Dropbox folder, available to $4 and up subscribers to the APR Monthly Historical Documents Program.

Watch this steaming pile of entertainment product and find out!

Star Trek x RENT Parody w/ Cast of Star Trek: Discovery

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Someone thought this was a good idea.

Someone who hates the Star Trek fanbase.

Someone who wants to make people cringe so hard that they collapse beyond their Schwartzchild radius.

Someone who is terribly confused about nerds.

The only thing better than a P-51 Mustang is two of them, welded together.

This seems like a lot of work just to make a pistol-caliber carbine that isn’t actually semi-auto. It is more of a double action, like a revolver; the action of pulling the trigger moves all the bits to cycle a new round. This would seem to make each trigger pull substantially more tiresome than for a conventional semi-auto carbine… more force needed, longer draw. The only obvious advantage would be that, being non-semi-auto, it just might play hell with various nutty local laws that foolishly ban semi-autos.

How the Providence Non Semi-Automatic Pistol Works, Shot Show 2019

One of the commenters over yonder says that this won’t be able to get around Californias laws, because California has written into law specifically what pistols are legal, not just which ones are illegal. My knowledge of California gun law is a little fuzzy, as I long ago put that blighted state in my rear view mirror.

The results as shown in the video below are pretty… well, awful. But the idea is neater’n heck, and if they can nail down precision, this has the potential to be a bit of a game changer for certain applications. Smooth-surfaced optically clear parts that can be finished in two minutes? Yep, there are possibilities.

The Vought Hypervelocity Missile program began in the 1980’s as an effort to create a relatively low-cost anti-armor missile. Instead of a massive warhead, the HVM would use kinetic energy to simply punch a hole through the armor of Soviet tanks. it would do this by accelerating to in excess of Mach 4. The HVM program continued on in several modified forms into the 21st century, but eventually did not result in production.

A recent pile of stuff purchased on eBay included two Vought prints of the HVM, one showing either a test round or a mockup, the other an artists concept showing an armored vehicle with a large turret for the storage and launch of HVMs, in the process of ruining the day of the crews of two Soviet T-72s. Sadly the prints have seen better days, having gotten a bit crumpled over the years, but they’re better than nothing. I have scanned them in full color/300 DPI and uploaded the scans to the 2019-02 APR Extras folder on Dropbox, available to all APR Patrons and Monthly Historical Documents subscribers at the $4 level or higher.

This should prove entertaining. If the lawsuits are even halfway successful it will be interesting to see what changes happen in the world of social media and online insta-outrage.

BREAKING NEWS: Covington Catholic High School lawyers have sent legal letters to The NY Times, Maggie Haberman, Washington Post, CNN, NPR, Savannah Guthrie, Andrea Mitchell, Joy Reid, Chuck Todd, The Hill, The Atlantic, Kathy Griffin & GQMagazine. 7 lawyers are now working on it. https://t.co/cUw0tNGoUw

— BNL NEWS (@BreakingNLive) February 2, 2019

Elliot McLaughlin, Michelle Boorstein, Emanuella Grinberg, Cleve Wootson Jr., Antonio Olivo, Joe Heim, Michael Miller, Eli Rosenberg, David Brooks, Isaac Stanley-Becker, Kristine Phillips, Sara Mervosh, Emily Rueb, Shannon Doyne, Kurt Eichenwald, Bill Maher, HBO, Warner Media

— BNL NEWS (@BreakingNLive) February 2, 2019

…but cool nonetheless. A kitchen knife made of of bismuth, a low-melt-temperature metal with some interesting crystallization properties. The end result is not a practical tool, but it would seem to be a snazzy piece of art. So the final fate here is a little disconcerting.The video does almost make me want to procure some bismuth and try some of the crystallization steps myself.