Political violence

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Sep 212022
 

Suspect Admits to Fatally Plowing Car into Republican Teen in ‘Politically Motivated’ Attack

A suspect accused of fatally plowing a car into a Republican teen in North Dakota over the weekend confessed on Monday to the attack, which he confirmed was “politically motivated.”

Shannon Brandt, a 41-year-old male, allegedly ran over 18-year-old Cayler Ellingson with his car after the pair had an altercation of a political nature at a street festival. …  The driver reported the crime himself, informing police that the victim was affiliated with a “Republican extremist group” and intended to target him after the two had a political disagreement.

Huh. I wonder what might have happened in recent weeks that could have radicalized Mr. Brandt and, through the power of “Stochastic Terrorism,” turned him into a murderer?

 

 Posted by at 11:16 am

I guess that war is going *great*

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Sep 212022
 

Putin announces a draft of 300,000 or so Russians with prior military service:

So this is what a tyrant looks like when he’s losing. He’s apparently trying to scare the Russian people by telling them that *they* are being threatened with nukes. That ranks up there with “the wage gap,” “hands up don’t shoot” and “Russia collusion” in the grand scheme of blatant political lies.

 Posted by at 7:20 am

If things don’t look right…

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Sep 202022
 

If a blog post hereabouts makes mention of something, something that seems like it aught to be in the post (a link to a book or movie on Amazon, say, or perhaps photos), but the post has a distinct blank spot… it may be that your adblocker is nuking the links or images. Most adblockers should have a way to unblock certain pages or whole websites. Do that, and chances are the blog posts will make sense.

 Posted by at 1:08 pm

North American Rotary-Wing Logistics Spacecraft

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Sep 192022
 

A mid-1960’s North American Aviation concept for a sorta-lifting body spacecraft that would use deployable rotors for landing. Functioning as an autogyro, these rotors would be a more controllable alternative to a parachute, in principle allowing fairly pinpoint runway touchdowns. I had cause to go looking for information on this recently; i was fairly certain that I had a few reports on the subject, but could not find them. Grrr.

A few photos I found online a few years ago of a display model, presumably originating from an auction website such as ebay:

 Posted by at 6:43 pm

So much for that “afraid of NATO” BS

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Sep 182022
 

It *seems* that Russia has pulled a fair amount of the air defense missile systems from St. Petersburg to transfer them to Ukraine. But wait! Wasn’t the whole point of the war that Ukraine joining NATO was a major threat to Russia? If so… St. Petersburg is not only real close to NATO member Estonia, it’s real close to *Finland,* which, thanks to the war, is now joining NATO. So… shouldn’t the Russians be kinda worried about an immanent attack on their second most important city from eeeeeeviiiiil forces of NATO?

 

Exclusive: Russia moves missiles from St Petersburg to Ukraine

Satellite images reveal that both mobile firing platforms and missiles disappeared during the summer from a base in the Zelenogorsk (Terijoki) area on the Karelian Isthmus, northwest of St Petersburg, among others.

The transfer of equipment has not previously been publicly reported in Russia or western countries.

St Petersburg—Russia’s second-most important city—has long been surrounded by a protective ring of 14 anti-aircraft missile bases. Now several of them stand empty.

Huh.

 Posted by at 1:15 pm

Welcome to New York

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Sep 182022
 

High population densities with lax law enforcement and no throwing of loons into bins: not even once.

McDonald’s ax swinger had just been ‘rejected’ by woman, witness says

 

 Posted by at 10:49 am

“Real Genius” in 4K

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Sep 182022
 

It’s about time:

It never had a real Blu Ray release, which always seemed odd to me.

And why not:

 

And why the hell not:

Update: it was once again brought to my attention that Amazon Text+Image links are nuked by ad blockers. So here are the text links to the 4K movies I linked to:

Real Genius [4K UHD]

Poltergeist (4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital)

Red Dawn – Collector’s Edition 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray [4K UHD]

Star Trek I: The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition Complete Adventure

Star Trek: The Next Generation 100-Piece Engineering Field Kit Tool Set

 Posted by at 1:50 am
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