The Solomon Islands have fallen

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Aug 262022
 

A little while back the Solomon Islands signed a “security pact” with the Chinese Communists. And so it begins:

Solomon Islands Threatens to Ban Journalists After China Reports

The Solomon Islands government threatened to ban “disrespectful and demeaning” journalists from entering in response to an Australian documentary that alleged widespread Beijing influence in the Pacific country.

And…

Solomon Islands doesn’t answer US Coast Guard’s request for port visit, US says

They also failed to respond to a request by the Royal Navy for port access.

The Solomon Islands have now become an extension of the ChiCom empire. I expect that as well as establishing a military presence right next to New Guinea and Australia the Chinese will strip the place bare of wood and fish. Chinese telephone/electronics intelligence company Huawei just signed a contract to build 161 towers in the Solomons. Probably too far from Australia/New Guinea to provide much direct intelligence, but who knows?

 Posted by at 9:27 am

US Supersonic Bomber Projects (Vol 1)

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Aug 262022
 

Mortons has announced my “Book 3,” They list it as available September 30… but I would expect it to come out a bit later than that. Well before Christmas, though.

US Supersonic Bomber Projects

This is Volume 1. I’m hard at work on Volume 2. A Volume 3 is *possible,* though uncertain just yet. Volume 1 covers the evolution of and derivative designs from the “official” bomber programs… B-58, B-59, B-68, B-70. B-1, A-5 and F-111. This covers, where possible, designs that competed for the contract. As with all my works, this is heavily illustrated with line diagrams, as accurate as I can make them.

This will eventually also be available through Amazon. THIS appears to be a placeholder for the listing. When released, it should be available directly through Mortons first, but for US buyers Amazon will have lower shipping cost.

 

 

 Posted by at 1:24 am

Down goes another statue…

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Aug 252022
 

This time, though, I’m not irritated. Commie art is good for one thing: recycling. Like fascist and SJW artwork, it’s at best soulless and devoted to the very worst things and people. So the Lativans took down the “Moscow Liberators” monument, in large part to protest the Moscow invasion of Ukraine.

Latvia Demolishes Soviet Memorial In Riga, Latest To Be Dismantled Across Eastern Europe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Florida Man

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Aug 252022
 

Uphold the cliche, buddy.

It will take a degree in higher mathematics to calculate the charges this guy racked up.

Subject In Early Morning Carjacking, Other Charges, Arrested in Gainesville

    • Arrested:  Brandon J. Baker, black male, 11/23/88
    • Incident Date/Time:  8/23/2022 at 4:05 AM
    • Incident Type:  Carjacking; Burglary with Battery, Kidnapping; Grand Theft Auto
    • Victim Info:  1/black female, early 40’s’; 2/black female, early 30’s; 3/white male, early 50’s

Just after 4:00 AM on August 23, Tampa Police responded to the report of a carjacking in the 16000 block of Enclave Village Dr. Victim #1 was confronted by an armed subject as she entered her car while preparing to leave for work. The suspect, later identified as 33-year-old Brandon J Baker, demanded she exit the car, then fled the scene in the victim’s black Nissan Maxima. The victim was not injured.

Minutes later, officers responded to a 911 call in the 6200 block of Ashbury Palms Dr. Reportedly, Baker forcibly entered a residence after committing the carjacking, and confronted victim #2, who is a known acquaintance. Baker forced the victim out of the residence and into the Maxima. The victim was able to escape, at which time Baker fled the scene prior to police arrival. The Maxima was found abandoned at Tampa Palms Blvd. and Compton Dr. The victim was not injured.

Approximately an hour later, Tampa Police responded to the report of a stolen vehicle that had just occurred in the 18000 block of Highwoods Preserve Pkwy. Victim #3 was in the back of his white Isuzu box truck. When he exited the rear of the truck, he observed Baker in the driver seat. Baker then fled in the truck, which was equipped with GPS.

The truck’s location was determined, and the Florida Highway Patrol attempted a traffic stop entering Alachua County. Baker refused to stop and began driving north in the southbound lanes of I-75. At multiple points the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office attempted to stop the vehicle without success. Baker struck multiple law enforcement vehicles. Baker attempted to flee on foot but was taken into custody by members of FHP & Alachua County Sheriff’s Office. Two Alachua County Deputies sustained minor injuries. No Florida Highway Patrol Troopers were injured. 

Baker is currently in Alachua County Jail, charged with Armed Carjacking, Burglary with Battery, Kidnapping, and Grand Theft Auto related to the incidents that occurred in Tampa, as well as multiple felony charges related to the incidents that occurred in Alachua County.

Let’s Go Brandon. Dude needs to go away forever. he started off his day with an armed carjacking; that alone merits a free trebuchet ride. Then he put *hundreds* of civilians at risk, at one point almost plowing into a school bus.

 

 Posted by at 1:53 pm

Neom

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Aug 252022
 

I’m all in favor of megaprojects. Hell, some years ago I made a pretty good stab at a book on the subject… half history of such projects, half illustrated manual of such projects, and half manifesto calling for mankind to plow ahead with such projects. Things like solar power satellites, O’Neill habitats, supra-mundane terraforming, orbital rings, terraformed asteroids (inside and out), Dyson swarms, all that. If mankind is going to make it long-term, we are going to have to do such things, and do rather a lot of them. We will eventually tear apart whole solar systems to rebuild them better. And to get from Here to There, we are going to have to do a lot of intermediate projects… and a lot of them will fail. I suspect that a fair proportion of the early space habitats will turn into disasters; early Mars colonies will be death traps; solar power satellites will fold up like origami. It’s sad, but it’s likely inevitable. It’s not like the history of Europeans colonizing the world was a history of unalloyed success from the get-go; there are whole colonies that just up and friggen’ vanished. But humans learn from such things and do better the next time… and soon enough, the same people who vanished like a fart in the wind at Roanoke have built New York City.

That said: not all megaprojects sound like good ideas. Some that seem like they are probably technically feasible sound like logistic or sociological nightmares. Such is the case with The Line, a whackadoo concept for a skyscraper taller than the Empire State Building… and hundreds of kilometers long. Worse, they want to build the thing in the desert. Worst, they want to build it in *Arabia.* No matter how bad your idea is, building it in a backwards theocratic superstitious cesspit will make your idea even worse.

 Posted by at 12:52 am

Some bajillionaire is gonna be PO’ed

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Aug 242022
 

A 129-Foot Superyacht Worth Millions Sinks Off the Italian Coast

It’s not clear who owns My Saga, which sails under the Cayman Islands flag. It was built by Italian shipmaker Cantieri San Marco and designed by popular British superyacht designer Tim Heywood. The vessel, which had a teak deck and could accommodate up to 12 passengers, was one of only 1,068 motor yachts in the 35- to 40-meter size range, according to Boat International.

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Not even remotely related, but substantially sadder:

 

China made their dugongs extinct. Good job, ya commie bastards. And pay attention you brain-addled reprobates who think that capitalism is bad for the environment: putting things into the hands of government is *worse.*

 Posted by at 7:30 pm

A “teachable moment”

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Aug 242022
 

As many have noted, there is a much greater demand for racism in the US than actual supply, so a lot of people simply invent it. This was the case recently where some kids from a little league team near where I currently live went to watch a game in the Little League World Series and caused a bit of a stir. What happened: one of the players on the Hawaiian Little League team, one Jarron Lancaster, has a blond-dyed mohawk haircut. Apparently the kid is good, so some of the players on the Davenport, Iowa, team wanted to emulate him. Being kids, that meant “look like Jarron,” which meant emulating his unique hairstyle. How did they do that? They yoinked the white stuffing out of some cheap stuffed toys and put it on some of their teammates heads in a *vaguely* mohawk-like pattern. They did this, again, to several kids. But what the national broadcast camera caught was them applying stuffing to a black kids head… which image was *promptly* leaped upon by race hustlers desperate for racism, because cotton + black kid = racism.

 

The kids on the Davenport team were promptly vilified by some of the worst, dumbest people online, the kind who are easily led and resistant to facts and explanations. Were the kids racist? Doesn’t seem so. The stuffing-mohawks were applied to white and black kids, in clear appreciation of a kid who appears to be native Hawaiian. This *should* be a vaguely heart-warming moment of cross-ethnicity good sportsmanship. But these kids just got a quick lesson in the realities of woke outrage culture. That might be rough for them now, but if they are smart, it will be a lesson they will learn and take to heart, knowing to never give the woke an inch, and to never, ever trust them.

The supposedly racist incident at the Little League World Series and the surprising truth

CBS Sports Anchor Lies About Little League Players, Calls Them Racists

Ugh.

 Posted by at 6:58 pm
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