So Kamala seized power today. Joy.
(Make sure to stay till the end of the vid…)
Because why not, here’s the music used in this video:
Nov 192021
Nov 192021
Despite threats from the left and the media (but then, I repeat myself), the Rittenhouse jury displayed courage *and* common sense and have found him not guilty.
Now get ready for the Mostly Pyrotechnic Protests.
Some things that *might* happen:
1) Rittenhouse should go after the press and the politicians (including Biden) who slandered him. Lawsuits totaling a few hundred million dollars might have an impact.
2) This sets a legal precedent that those defending themselves and their communities from unhinged leftist terrorists are in the legal right.
The left’s idiot footsoldiers are annoyed that they don;t get to attack people without consequence, and its starting to boil over…
Another angle of the violent #BLM protester outside the #Kenosha courthouse shows him getting arrested, along with another belligerent protester. #Rittenhouse
Video by @ScooterCasterNY: pic.twitter.com/HLmYluBoqh— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) November 18, 2021
The Libs of TikTok account is going to be jam-packed with crazy for a while.
Nov 182021
This couple, “Brad & Lex,” are “reactors,” generally reacting to songs that they claim they’ve not heard before or are basically unfamiliar with (they *seem* genuinely to be unfamiliar with most of the ones I’ve seen them react to. They are Millenials, so I guess it’s fair to assume that they might have somehow missed out on the best music from the 80’s and 90’s.). This is sort of the lowest common denominator of YouTube entertainment, but these two are more interesting and amusing that the majority of the youngun reactors I’ve seen. A lot of this is on Lex: she subverts expectations. She, a young black woman, turns out to be an 80’s-style metalhead, and the way she goes kinda bonkers sometimes while Brad remains stoic is just friggen’ awesome to see. She displays unrestrained joy; he displays restraint and self control. The two very different approaches really seem to work together very well (it’s almost as if “feminine” and “masculine” actually complement each other. Weird, I know). For example:
They have a second channel where instead of reacting to music, they react to current news events and political doings. And once again… they subvert expectations by *not* being woke Millenials.
Nov 182021
My book on the B-52 is now being printed (I understand that copies physically exist), so it is perhaps a little late for additions and revisions. Still, I remain on the lookout for relevant information. To that end I recently plunked down a fair chunk of change for a pair of documents on ebay… a set of blueprints of the B-52G cockpit, and a B-52G mockup review. I eagerly await their arrival. I have high hopes that the US Postal Service won’t drop a tractor axle dipped in anthrax onto the package.
These will likely end up in the catalog for monthly rewards. If they are of interest, and/or if you would like to help fund the acquisition and preservation of such things, please consider signing on either for the APR Patreon or the APR Monthly Historical Documents Program.
Nov 182021
You know what I was thinking the world needed just now? A smallpox outbreak.
Philadelphia lab briefly locked down after worker finds ‘smallpox’ vials in freezer
Smallpox is *supposed* to exist only at the CDC in Georgia and an equivalent facility in Moscow. The fact that samples of it *may* exist elsewhere is bad. That samples may exist elsewhere under virtually no security whatsoever? Oh, that’s just magnificent.
“For the general public there is no basis for being worried, even a small amount,” Ebright said.
Well, I’m relieved.
Pretty sure I got the smallpox vaccine when I was a kid. I have doubts that it’d be all that effective all this time later. But even if it remained 100% effective, it has been *decades* since smallpox vaccination was a thing, and I shudder to imagine the inconvenience of having to step over the corpses of Millenials and Gen Z’ers scattered all over the place. Just the *smell*… yeesh, it’d be like an Antifa/Juggalo love-in.
Nov 182021
Back in the day, aerospace companies would actively court the public, including those crazy kids who liked to make models. To that end, a number of aerospace companies would release surprisingly nice diagrams of their aircraft. North American Aviation was one such company, and one of their aircraft that they diagrammed for the public was the A3J-1 (later A-5) Vigilante supersonic carrier based bomber. Oddly, I’ve had trouble finding the full scale print of this… but then, I’ve had trouble finding *most* of the ones released by North American. Seems that they tended to not survive to make it to ebay. However, I recently acquired a copy of an old magazine that had the Vigilante diagram, reproduced reasonably well. Woo.
A 300 dpi scan of the diagram has been made available to $4 and up patrons/subscribers in the 2021-11 APR Extras Dropbox folder. A 600 dpi scan has been made available to above-$10 patrons/subscribers. If you would like to help fund the acquisition and preservation of such things, along with getting high quality scans for yourself, please consider signing on either for the APR Patreon or the APR Monthly Historical Documents Program.
Nov 172021
So a know-nothing journalist set out to research and write a hit piece on the concept of “ghost guns” by taking an 80% kit and finishing it to a functional firearm. The idea seemed to be to show just how easy it is for criminal types to get a gun that the law says they shouldn’t have. Two problems, though: first, the job turned out to be far harder than the journalist had expected. Second problem: the journalist set out to obey all the law in his quest to make a “ghost gun,” but in the process he seems to have unintentionally broken a truckload of laws. Thing is, these are dumb California laws, the sort of laws that clearly exist solely to trap regular folks. The kind of laws that exist solely to dissuade people from exercising their basic rights. But will *this* guy get charged? After all, he has the right politics.
How easy is it to build a ghost gun? We asked our reporter to find out
A video was put together to explain what laws the journalist broke. Takes more than twenty minutes to go through it. Strictly speaking this guy is far more of a lawbreaker that Rittenhouse ever dreamed of being.
Nov 172021
Nov 172021
In saner times, we would all read this story and, while all admitting that it’s a sad tragedy, we’d also all look at the father described here and say “Now that… that was a man.” This would be followed by a grave head nod, a slow non-ironic golf clap, the pouring out of libations, the solemn murmurings of oaths and/or prayers, a warning given to those in Valhalla or StoVo Kor that A Man is coming. Sadly, these are not sane times.
11-Year-Old Plane Crash Survivor Was Saved By Her Dad’s ‘Bear Hug’ in a Final Act of Love
A commuter plane went down, and a fathers last act was to try – successfully – to protect his daughter. He, and everyone on the plane who *wasn’t* his daughter, died.
You may wonder why I’m going at this new story from a cynical standpoint. Simple: the article suggests a “related” article:
White Moms: There’ll Always Be a New Kyle Rittenhouse If We Don’t Address White Privilege
Where we are informed that the urge to defend and protect is the result of white privilege, and that cowardice and unwillingness to defend self, family or strangers is the better approach. That white moms need to teach their white sons to disdain the very *concept* of willingness to help.
Hey, lady: ᚷᚩ ᚠᚢᚳk ᚣᚩᚢᚱᛋᛖᛚᚠ
If Kyle Rittenhouse were Black, I can guarantee he would not be on trial … he’d likely be dead and likely it’d be at the hands of local authorities.
Really. Ask Timothy Simpkins about that.
Nov 172021
And a space program!
A few weeks ago the United Nations put out a video where an indifferently rendered Utahraptor goes before the United Nations and argues that he knows a thing or two about extinction, that extinction is a bad thing, and that humans should not subsidize their own extinction. Rather, humans should work *against* extinction. These are all good points. And the logical conclusion to draw from this is that mankind should, at once and without delay, convert the money currently being wasted on social welfare programs into industrial-scale efforts to develop gigaton-yield thermonuclear devices, deep-space comet and asteroid detection and tracking systems, fast and efficient interplanetary transport system. The nukes would be used to divert potential threats; the improved propulsion and power systems would have the secondary benefit of opening the entire solar system and its resources to exploitation and colonization. heavy industry and its pollution could be moved off-world; Earth could be converted into a garden. By doing so, mankind – and every species we choose to bring with us – would be rendered *almost* immune from extinction. Nothing else mankind could possibly do would have a hope in hell of being even a minuscule fraction as impactful.