With that headline, this could have gone *way* different. The difference between an entertaining YouTube video and a national news story? Nobody, neither The Guy nor The Cops, acted like a jackass.
Moral of the story? Listen to Chris Rock. And when you go out armed, go out Freakin’ ARMED.
I’m honestly a little uncertain about what the Canadian truckers are protesting. Something to do with mask mandates or some such.And while I might at one time have had a problem with people shutting down ,major highways in order to protest stuff that doesn’t make sense to me… 2020 pretty much burned me out: if I’m supposed to see racist morons burning and looting and murdering as “mostly peaceful protests for justice” then I can hardly get upset over truckers showing up somewhere in large numbers.
But the truckers don’t seem to be alone; Canadian farmers seem to be joining in. And the Canadian police, doubtless under orders from the feckless totalitarian “leaders” currently ordering the country about, seem to be trying to stop them. And farmers being farmers, they’re not overly concerned with such trifles…
I’ve heard people talking about a similar truck convoy that may head to D.C. I *really* don’t care what it might be that they’re protesting, but if enough tracks can get into that den of iniquity to shut the place down, and drown out anything Gropy Joe or Pelosi or any of those senile authoritarians might want to blather about, then I’m all for it. Too many of these politicians have used China’s viral gift to the world as a way to amass power; anything that stands up to them, I’m for.
Mandatory animation:
A brief summary of the realities of Social Security:
There have been a number of single-shot .50 BMG pistols over the years. None of ’em really seem like the sort of thing I’d want to shoot too often.
This is base don the same Serbu configuration that went kerblooey on Kentucky Ballistics some months back. Except in this case if it did that, it would shoot that endcap right directly into your face. So, ummm, watch out what you load this with.
Sitting at the L4 point, it is about a kilometer in diameter and should be relatively easy to access. It’d make a dandy base of some kind… load it up with radar, lidar and optical scopes and use it to help scan the solar system for asteroids and comets in need either of diverting from an Earth impact trajectory, diverting onto a Mars impact trajectory, or diverting into an asteroid miners bank account.
So a lot of “Shuttle II” stuff appeared on eBay for an exorbitant price. I’m becoming increasingly leery of plunking down excessive sums for this sort of thing… not only due to my own finances and the onrushing economic meltdown, but because doing so incentivizes sellers to slap even more exorbitant prices on things. But, I put this lot before my APR patrons/subscribers as a potential crowdfunding opportunity, and enough signed on that I went ahead and purchased the lot. It should arrive early next week.
As with all my APR crowdfunds, the cost of the item is split evenly among the funders; the more funders, the lower the price per person. Each funder will receive a complete set of high-rez (300 DPI, full color… higher rez if called for) scans of the items. Typically these crowdfunded items then get sent on to appropriate archive, library or museum, though this time I’m not quite sure where they should go.
If you would be interested in signing on, send me an email 
. There are currently enough funders that the per-funder price is ~$24 under $14; the more sign on, the lower it’ll get. If you have a price limit noticeably lower than $14, let me know in your email. This will remain open until the stuff arrives, presumably early next week. At that point it’ll be closed and the price set.
Additionally: the box shown below, loaded with blueprints/diagrams, is somewhere in the system headed my way. It was procured sight unseen; I have high hopes. This sort of thing is made possible by the APR Patrons/Monthly Historical Documents Program subscribers. If you want to help preserve aerospace history and get in on these goodies, please consider subscribing.
In short: A Scottish guy posted nasty opinions after the death of an elderly British solider of some note. This is not news, of course; whenever anyone of *any* note dies, you’re going to have all manner of people loudly posting all manner of classless stuff (example: just imagine what the internet-tubes will be filled with when Hillary! or Gropey Joe or Ted Cruz or Donald Trump keel over). But Britain has decided that saying nasty stuff like “burn in Hell” is now a criminal offense, as the poster has been convicted of posting a “grossly offensive” statement, and will be sentenced in March.
This opens an *astounding* door into legal chaos in Britain. The BBC will now likely take their already shockingly censored reporting of the waves of gang rapes and industrial-scale grooming of British girls by foreign colonizers and probably just not report on it at all, for fear that they will be brought up on charges of offending the criminal class and their enablers. Anyone who says *anything* against race rioters or who complains that British history is being re-written will also likely face legal assault.
It is just barely possible that this legal tactic will be used against those who would erase the British from British history, but I wouldn’t bet on it. Still, “grossly offensive” is such a wishy-washy foundation upon which to base criminal cases, it’s at least conceivable that those who argue online that such-and-such figure from British history was racists and needs to be canceled, their statues torn down and their name scrubbed off buildings, might find themselves in the dock.
Now people are fighting over steak.
#Video
Big fight breaks out at Golden Corral pic.twitter.com/0pdNnbVzZs— RawNews1st🎥📰 (@Raw_News1st) January 29, 2022
Here’s the thing, though. I went to YouTube to look up this video (some people can’t see embedded twitter vids), and found a number of “fight at Golden Corral” videos. One wonders at such a thing. Conclusions? Draw your own. Is Golden Corral the harbinger of collapse? Or does Chuck E. Cheese still hold the reins on that dubious distinction?
One from 2018:
One from 2019:
Another from 2019:
… And yet….
So long as you’re going to the bother of dealing with the ATF to make a full auto Deagle, why not add a stock?
A number of techniques are demonstrated here to make a model aircraft look weather-beaten and dilapidated.