Jul 152022
 

Here’s a link to H.R. 1808, a bill the Democrats are pushing that is *blatantly* unConstitutional. Anyone who signs it should be impeached, but here we are.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1808/text

To regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited, and for other purposes.

The important bits:

“(36) The term ‘semiautomatic assault weapon’ means any of the following, regardless of country of manufacture or caliber of ammunition accepted:

“(A) A semiautomatic rifle that—

“(i) has a magazine that is not a fixed magazine; and

“(ii) does have any 1 of the following:

“(I) A pistol grip.

“(II) A forward grip.

“(III) A folding, telescoping, or detachable stock, or is otherwise foldable or adjustable in a manner that operates to reduce the length, size, or any other dimension, or otherwise enhances the concealability, of the weapon.

“(IV) A grenade launcher.

“(V) A barrel shroud.

“(VI) A threaded barrel.

So, in short, an “assault weapon” is basically any semi-automatic rifle you are likely to come across.

And what do they want to do with these “assault weapons?”

It shall be unlawful for a person to import, sell, manufacture, transfer, or possess, in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce, a semiautomatic assault weapon.

They want to imprison or kill – perhaps both – tens of *millions* of Americans.

The Democrats don;t have the votes to pull this scheme off by themselves. They’ll need a few backstabbing “Republicans” to get onboard as well. Keep an eye on them.

 Posted by at 2:29 pm
Jul 152022
 

I’ll leave it to the student to assess which.

Here’s a hint: the moron in this little display is in a position of political power.

 Posted by at 11:10 am
Jul 142022
 

The bulk of the Covid that hit me a month and some ago has passed, but it has left some lingering effects. The two I’ve picked up on is a general fatigue that wasn’t there before, and a reduced ability to focus on my damn job. This is troublesome as I am now in the last chapter of Book 3; I can complain with the best of ’em, but the sort of attention span that’s required to write technical histories while constantly referring to source documents is a bit lacking. Nevertheless I’m getting through it and hope to have the text of Book 3 done soon. The text will require some going through by the editor, though… I noticed that the most recent sizable chapter seems to have been done in a different style to all the others. And I can’t promise that bits written deeper in the throes of the Pinko Pox don’t have conspiratorial ravings about the king of the potato people.

I’ve seen progress on the cover art, and it looks pretty nifty. They have, however, nixed my notion – a very good and important one – that enough space be left on the cover to splash it with “America: ᚠᚪᛣᚳ YEAH!” in big red letters. Something about it being “inappropriate.”

 

 Posted by at 10:54 pm
Jul 142022
 

The New York Office of Emergency management is preparing New Yorkers for the event of someone (Eric Swalwell?) dropping a nuclear device on their burg.

I suspect if you are in a major metropolis like NYC and a nuke goes off close enough that you need to worry about fallout, you’re probably kinda boned. You’ll be stuck there for two weeks… two weeks with no water or power, no food deliveries, the only people moving about being raiders. Enjoy!

 Posted by at 3:38 pm
Jul 142022
 

So Ulster County, new York decided to have a contest for kids to design a new “I Voted” sticker.

I Voted Sticker Contest

Some are fairly professional:

Some are what you might expect from a kid:

And then… there’s the one by 14-year-old Hudson Rowan. Guess which one currently has 93% of the vote. Go on, guess.

 

That’s the best thing I’ve seen all day.

 Posted by at 3:03 pm
Jul 142022
 

Sometimes trolls troll just for the lulz. And sometimes… their trolling brings out important truths. Such is the case here where a comedian name of Alex Stein trolled AOC a *tiny* amount, and in response she showed her full-on hypocrisy.

According to her, it’s fine to harass *other* politicians and even judges when they disagree with her… but if *she* gets even the slightest, tamest bit of harassment, she not only deserves police protection from it, she wants to carry out acts of physical violence in response.

If you advocate it, expect it.

 Posted by at 2:00 pm
Jul 142022
 

For a long time we’ve known that the supposedly “all about the science” political Left thinks that guns are evil. But they’ve expanded the field of non-sentient mechanisms that they think have unfortunate personality traits:

Homophobic Telescope Reveals First Hi-Res Images of Deep Space

Huh.

 Posted by at 12:21 pm
Jul 142022
 

Sure, it’s just a “college project,” but you know that this, or something even more uncomfortable, is coming.

Here’s what it might be like to travel on a double decker airplane seat

I don’t know who I feel more sorry for: those olds like myself who remember pre-9/11 flying, when it was a bit inconvenient and often a bit uncomfortable, but overall a decent enough experience, or those who have only known post-9/11 security theater and steerage-class accommodation.

 

 Posted by at 1:18 am
Jul 132022
 

I posted a link to this vid nearly two weeks ago, but this guy has a good time laughing at it. Some amusing and interesting discussion.

 

BTW, “the beautiful ones” is likely a reference to “Universe 25 ” or  an experiment with mice that showed that excess population density leads to disaster. A “rodent utopia” led to, among other horrors:

Consequently, the next generation of mice, having never experienced healthy mouse behaviour, had no concept of mating or parenting, or even territorialism. Some – dubbed the “beautiful ones” – spent their time eating, drinking, and grooming themselves in seclusion. Elsewhere, mice formed gangs of cannibalistic, raping plunderers.

Tell me that doesn’t sound a lot like modern cities. Go on. Tell me.

I wonder what would happen to the TikToker shown above if, on one of her drinking and partying binges after yet another empty, meaningless day of snacking, drinking and goofing off, she encountered some of the people that I’ve posted *other* kinds of videos about. Assuming she survived the experience with her brain still capable of rational thought, would she look at the world differently? Would she maybe reflect on her life spent accomplishing nothing and decide to maybe consider actually *doing* something?

I also wonder if she looks at young men whose greatest ambition is to spend all day playing online video games and thinks that *they* are losers.

 Posted by at 2:39 pm