Gee, that mass shooting story sure didn’t seem to have legs

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Apr 062022
 

Normally mass shootings are the sort of news stories that have not only media but politicians and celebrities falling all over themselves and each other to bleat and strut. But the recent event in Sacramento that killed six? Yes, it’s pretty much gone. I wonder why that might possibly be.

Sacramento mass shooting suspect released from prison early weeks before tragedy, has violent past

He was sentenced to 10 years in 2018 for for domestic violence and assault with great bodily injury

Let’s do the math on that. Sentenced to ten years in 2018. January 2018 plus ten years is… hmmm… carry the two… ah, yes, released in February 2022.

He was a felon who was not legally allowed to have a firearm, never mind the illegally modified fully automatic firearm he actually had. The story is less a “boo hoo, we need more gun control” story and more a “maybe if we locked these monsters away for anything like how long they’re supposed to be locked away for, they won’t be out here doing this.” But we’re in the era of “defund the police” and “abolish the prisons,” so… kinda unfortunate narrative this story came with. Plus, kinda difficult to pin this one on Orange Man Bad or white supremacy. But I’m sure we’ll see some wild flailings for just that soon enough… if the story is remembered at all in another day or two.

This fine upstanding gentleman has a long record of violent criminality. A sane society would have permanently separated him from the rest of humanity long ago, but oh no, some geniuses decided it would be best to release him back out onto the streets to terrorize the citizenry. I’m getting to be more and more of the opinion that those responsible for signing for early release should be held responsible for the behavior of those they let go.

 

 

 Posted by at 10:37 pm

Ukraine Zoo: Putin’s killing the cats

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Apr 062022
 

Well. One more thing to add to The List.

Ukrainian zoo says it may have to euthanize big cats, bears after enclosures destroyed

“Yesterday and today [Feldman Ecopark] was again subjected to massive shelling and bombardment. Infrastructure destroyed, enclosures destroyed,” zoo founder Alexander Feldman said in a statement. “The biggest problem is large predators.” 

“Maybe we will save baby jaguars, baby panthers, but all adult animals will probably be liquidated,” Feldman said.

The zoo, located in Kharviv, said that its specialists are trying to place the animals in temporary housing, noting this is the only option they have outside of euthanizing bears, lions and tigers. 

Understandable but… dayum. I am reminded, unhappily, of Marjan the Kabul Zoo lion. That story *still* pisses me off to no end, twenty years later. I had the great misfortune of first reading about Marjan and seeing photos of while at work back then. Uuuuuugh.

Even for cats as massive and majestic as lions, for animals as powerful as bears… humans waging war has to be a cosmic horror. Their experience of such things would be like the Greek gods warring with the Hindu gods would be on primitive Man.

This video shows the place in October of last year. The Feldman Ecopark Zoo was certainly no San Diego Zoo, but it seemed like it was a nice place, with what appears to have been well designed, well built and well maintained enclosures with healthy animals given a good amount of space. Until Putins goons decided to “deNazify” it.

Apparently there is *some* effort to evacuate some of the big cats:

 Posted by at 7:46 pm

Ummmm… ummm…

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Apr 052022
 

Call me unsympathetic, but there are times when I see someone I don’t know and have never heard of completely melting down over the most ridiculous stuff, and it just makes me laugh. Remember the loons freaking out and screaming at the sky because Orange Man Bad won an election? Yeah, I know we’re not supposed to make fun of people with mental illnesses (you know, CRAZY PEOPLE), but it’s a basic human instinct.

All that said… here ya go. Someone else to laugh at, shake our heads, and despair for the future if she is at all representative of Kids These Days. All *that* said, I’m *kinda* sure she’s putting on an act. You know, for kids.

@jaylampy

please I don’t know what to do

♬ original sound – Jay Lampy

 Posted by at 4:09 pm

Nothing tows tanks like a Deere

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Apr 052022
 

Ha.

Bonus video: this one claims to be a strike on a Russian convoy in the Donbas region. But… none of the vehicles are moving. I don’t see troops running away. It looks almost like someone is tearing up a road full of abandoned hardware, which seems maybe wasteful. Surely there are *some* farmers around to tow away some of the untrashed vehicles?

 Posted by at 3:45 pm

Missile War

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Apr 052022
 

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought guided missiles to the fore, to a very great cost of Russian tanks, armored vehicles, trucks and basically anything that moves. Anti-tank guided missiles have proven to be perfectly capable of turning kinda-modern armor into scrap metal. Swatting aircraft is a somewhat more difficult task, but it’s being done. The video below seems to show a Ukrainian-made “Stugna-P” anti-tank missile (a manually-controlled laser guided missile that can be set on a tripod and fired remotely) promptly deleting a Kamov KA-52 “Alligator” attack helicopter. The Stugna-P would seem a  *terrible* missile for going after a moving aircraft, but this one was hovering… and I don’t care how armored your chopper is, if it gets hit with a missile meant to take out a modern main battle tank, your chopper will do like what this one did, and immediately fall from the sky as flaming wreckage.

For as long as there have been projectile weapons there has been armor. And since then there has been a constant competition between the two for supremacy. And right now, it’s pretty clear that arms (in this case ATGMs) have the advantage over armor. We don’t know how well a truly modern MBT such as the Abrams would hold up against missiles like these, but it’s safe to assume the answer would be “not well.” The traditional response of adding even more armor to the tank is likely not tenable; the M-1 is already so massive that merely transporting it is a problem. So the future of defending vehicles will have to be active: not just the reactive armor that Russian tanks are covered with and that doesn’t seem to be doing them much good, but point defense systems that use guns, lasers, missiles, jets of explosively generated molten metal, blast waves, hell, maybe even force fields. None of these will be “cheap.” This will put effectively-armored vehicles outside the reach of many militaries in the face of relatively inexpensive missiles. Perhaps for a time war will simply be cost ineffective. Won’t that be a hell of a thing.

 Posted by at 8:12 am

Bodies in Bucha for *weeks?*

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Apr 042022
 

Satellite images from March 19th show bodies laying in the streets of Russian-occupied Bucha. The Russians decamped from Bucha March 30, so it seems that they killed civilians in the streets and left them there for at least 11 days. That’s just *strange.*

Bucha is on the outskirts of Kyiv, near Hostomel Airport, final resting place of the AN 225 Mriya. Seems the Russian forces enjoy killing things and just leaving them there to rot. One of the photos in the article shows a woman holding a cat walking past two bodies… said to be those of her husband and her brother. Numerous other photos of bodies, included mass graves seen from both ground level and from space. Kinda hard to hide this sort of thing these days.

Satellite images show bodies lay in Bucha for WEEKS – disproving Russia’s wild claims that more than 400 corpses were brought in AFTER Putin’s troops left the Ukrainian town in a massive hoax

 Posted by at 8:48 pm

Time to pay up

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Apr 042022
 

Oberlin College sounds like a terrible place to send your kid… unless you don’t much care for your kid and you’re making ’em pay their own way. Oberlin has popped up in this blog before (like HERE and HERE) for the wokeness of some of their idiot students, but the big story was from 2016: some students decided to rob Gibson’s Bakery. They were caught in the process, and since the thieves were of a protected class, students made up charges against the bakery and began to protest. But what was legally actionable about the story is that element of the student government and school administration actively aided in libeling the bakery and attempted to financially harm them. The bakery sued the school for damages and won; the school appealed the multi-million dollar judgement and just lost:

Oberlin College Loses $31M Appeal

There don’t seem to be too many options left for the school now but to either declare bankruptcy or write a check. Eithers good, though of course the best outcome would be that they write the check, the check gets cashed and the bakery gets their funds in full, and *then* the school goes bankrupt and then gets bought by, say, Elon Musk who proceeds to turn it from a “liberal arts” school into a “STEM Colonialism” school. Students are selected solely based on their merit, and their focus is on the hard sciences, math and engineering, specifically for the purpose of training the next generation of colonizers and exploiters who will go out into space and culturally appropriate the Moon, Mars and asteroids. Very few of the current staff or administrators would seem to be worth carrying forward.

That, I suppose, is unlikely. But a man can dream.

 Posted by at 8:08 pm

Third World California: Sacramento Edition

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Apr 032022
 

Sacramento Mass Shooting Video Shows Wild Fight, Captures Gunfire

There are multiple videos from the scene, though none I’ve seen show the actual gunfire… just a lot of people acting like fricken’ morons, then gunfire is clearly audible. You hear a *lot* of semiautomatic fire, doubtless pistols… and some high rate of fire fully automatic shooting as well, likely a modified Glock with a “switch.” I would bet a dollar that not a one of the firearms involved was legally owned and registered with the wise government of California, thus they were already illegal… yet we can be assured of hearing some idiot yammerings about how *new* laws are needed.

Note in the video below that there seem to be quite a number of guns being fired, only one of which seems to be full auto. Sounds like it magdumps, and that’s the last you hear of it. Full auto in a pistol is great if you’re looking to mow down  a crowd, but actual combat? Nah. But it’s about what I’d expect from the level of intellect that tends to be involved in incidents like this… unable to think further than two seconds into the future, or more strategically than “this is cool.”

 Posted by at 7:28 pm
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