Former New Mexico State Representative Sheryl Williams Stapleton is accused (and charged 28 times) with embezzling millions of dollars. In Juky she got a visit from a number of officials packing assault rifles (*real* ones no doubt, with actual select fire capability) and her home was searched in what has to be the most polite home inspection of this kind I’ve ever heard of. I’m sure any random civilian who had a warrant served on them like this would experience something a bit more enthusiastic, but at least this happened.
Now… to take a look at the Swalwells and the Bidens.
Note that the cops here are, at least in part, IRS.
A photo taken from the first stage of a Saturn I showing the second stage’s six RL-10 rocket engines firings, boosting the S-IV stage towards orbit. Also visible are four orange-yellow exhaust plumes from ullage rockets… solid rockets that provide just enough acceleration to the stage to settle the liquid propellants at the bottoms of the tanks (otherwise the turbines might suck down vapor rather than liquid and that would be a Very Bad Thing).
Photo was from a 1965 magazine advertisement for Pratt & Whitney, manufacturer of the RL-10 engine. The full rez scan of the ad has been made available at 300 DPI to all $4/month patrons/subscribers in the 2021-10 APR Extras folder at Dropbox. 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with getting high quality scans for yourself, please consider signing on either for the APR Patreon or the APR Monthly Historical Documents Program.
In 1971 the Dutch rock band “Focus” released an album that had the song “Hocus Pocus.” It gained a measure of fame due to being a bit… well, odd, to say the least, with the lead singer yodeling, among other unconventional techniques. The song did well in the charts at the time. But what will meke it last until the sun goes dark is their 1973 live version on NBC’s “Midnight Special.” They didn’t change the song much, except for one detail. The song was originally nearly 7 minutes long, but NBC only gave them about four and a half minutes. What to do? The usual approach would be to chop bits of the song out. Focus’ approach: do the song twice as fast.
It’s *bonkers.*
The lead singer is *working* here, and as a result pulls some interesting faces. He could well be Chancellor of the Klingon Empire
To compare with the original:
As with the final scene from “Blackadder,” “Hocus Pocus” was improved due to time constraints and imposed limitations.
A bit from a cutscene from “Red Alert 3” has George Takei laying it out. it’s a very short video from years ago, yet there’s a lot here that seems terribly relevant to current situations. I can see Winnie The Xi saying this to the decrepit nincompoop current occupying space in the White House.
“Blackadder” was a British sitcom from the 1980s starring Rowan Atkinson. Each of its four seasons was set in a different time period… the late 1400’s, the late 1500’s, the early 1800’s and finally during World War One. Much the same cast of actors played much the same characters, simply being descendants of the characters from prior seasons. I found it to be entertaining as all getout.
The final episode of the final season was meant to be the very last. But there was a problem: as originally filmed, the climax of the episode was *terrible.* The characters, all soldiers in the British army in the trenches of WWI, are ordered to go over the top and charge, stupidly, into German machine gun fire. This of course leads to them all getting cut down. But as actually filmed, that scene was *awful.* To call the acting half-assed is an insult to asses everywhere; the directing sucks; the cinematography stinks. But when they got a look at the footage it was too late to go back and try to film it again. So the editors set about trying to salvage *something* from it. And by taking a less-is-more approach, they ended up turning just a few seconds of video from utter garbage into something truly remarkable. In my opinion, it ranks up there with “The Iron Giant” and his “Superman” moment.
First, watch how the episode played out in the end:
Then behold how it could have been just terrible, but was rescued:
If I’m reading this correctly, morons in Britain are blocking public roads and demanding that the government spent untold sums of taxpayer money to insulate houses.
Jackholes who think that the best way to protest is to block roads should be hauled off to the hoosegow… or simply declared outlaw, meaning that motorists could just motor right on through them. These sort of people are too stupid to be allowed to breed and contaminate the already screwed up gene pool.
