Looks like the classroom commissar has actually been given the opportunity to explore new career opportunities:
Ya gotta wonder just what kind of blur of activity there is just now with teachers stripping their walls bare of their insane and inane political extremist propaganda. You know this guy wasn’t alone.
The 1970’s saw a lot of airlines and airline manufacturers going to great lengths to economize, thanks in no small part to the spike in fuel prices and general economic downturn caused by the OPEC oil embargo. Some of this economizing came in the form of new “air bus” concepts to jam as many people as possible into mid-sized jetliners. Wide-bodied configurations were popular for that. McDonnell-Douglas proposed a new airliner in the mid-70’s that was derived from their long-range high capacity DC-10. The fuselage was cut short and stubby; the third turbofan at the base of the vertical tail was deleted. The wings and tail surfaces were all-new. This made it slightly more economical on a passenger-mile basis than the trijet, but also made it inappropriate for trans-oceanic flight since airlines were not yet ready to accept twin-jets for such routes. Intercontinental flight in twinjets would have to wait for the 777. McDonnell-Douglas figured that up to 278 passengers could be wedged into the available space… and that even more seats could be installed in the below-deck cargo bay.
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Social Justice Warriors in the west can only *dream* of having such power:
Ms. Wei appears to be a lot like Oprah Winfrey… took the profits from an acting gig, became a businesswoman, became a successful business woman, became an *insanely* successful business woman. But then she made the sort of Social Blunders that would get a western celebrity cancelled… but the ChiComs are *really* thorough.
I have fifteen five three zero remaining copies from the original fifty. They are all signed and dated and numbered, and come with two 18X24 poster-sized prints. Yours for a flat $25, shipped via Media Mail within the US. If you are non-US, the price is sadly rather a lot higher… an extra $20, even if you are just a few feet across the Canadian border because the price of international postage really is that high these days.
When they’re gone, they’re gone.
Update: they’re gone.
This is of course still available on Amazon. Currently nine reviews, all five-star!
NERF guns finally get rid of the foam dart and go for the real thing: 9mm bullets. Sure, it’s a home-printed firearm, but it’s a dandy NERF gun too.
If you want one of these NERF guns of your own, the files are available here:
It’s getting so that anyone can have a gun of their own, no matter how tyrannical their local government is.
The Taliban got this stuff for free, courtesy Joe Biden. but a lot of these things would get an American *arrested* and his life ruined if he was found to own one.
A mind-blowing graphic in today's Times on what $85bn worth of lost equipment means in practice for the Taliban: pic.twitter.com/GDcuNQbb6P
— Will Brown (@_Will_Brown) August 29, 2021
Sixty-four *thousand* machine guns. More than a third of a *million* assault rifles (real ones, not the semi-auto sporters Americans are occasionally allowed to buy). Artillery. Armored vehicles. Hummers. Fricken Herkybirds.
If the US government is giving machine guns to our enemies, their moral high ground for preventing *me* from owning one has evaporated. I have high hopes that this will be used in the Supreme Court to demonstrate that the government *really* doesn’t think that fully automatic weapons are a problem, and thus the NFA should be repealed.
This is hidden camera footage of this very fine gentleman, Gabriel Gipe, admitting to his intellectually corrupt and ethically bankrupt philosophies and goals for twisting childrens minds in his role as a teacher in the Inderkum High School in California. But the thing is… he advertises his communist ideology *openly,* with not only Antifa and Maoist propaganda on the walls of his classroom, they are tattooed all over him (not to mention the Hammer & Sickle shirt). He’s even got the INGSOC logo prominently displayed on his arm. “1984” was supposed to be a warning, not a users manual… but here we are, using taxpayer dollars to fund direct indoctrination and intimidation of our school children into the worst ideology to come around in the last thousand years.
Doubtless there’ll be a minor kerfuffle in the Natomas Unifed School District over this, and he might even be invited to explore new career options. but the thing is… he should have not been in that position in the first place. Other heads should roll for putting someone like that in a position like that. Imagine some other teacher hanging up a Confederate flag or a portrait of Hitler, and you get a fraction of the way towards the level of scumbag this guy represents.
But wait! There’s more!!!
There is at least a glimmer of hope, though:
“Removed during an investigation” is not quite as good as “fired, and we’ve contacted every other school in the country to warn them that this person has been abusing an untold number of impressionable children, and we’ve instructed all our other teachers and staff that this sort of insane and abusive behavior will not be tolerated.” But it’s at least a start.
It’s now “racist” to speak Welsh in Wales. How long before it’s “racist” to speak English in England? It’s already “racist” to expect people in America to speak English. Britain, you should have taken note of Americas failing in that regard. Now it may be too late.
Electric airplanes, like electric cars, currently have the problem of relatively short range, a problem unlikely to be greatly improved until energy density of batteries goes up by an unrealistic amount. Still… some routes seem like they’re be perfect for electric airplanes:
One Point Seven Miles. These islands look pretty windy… this seems like the *perfect* opportunity for electric aviation. Set up some wind turbines, use them to power battery chargers. Plane comes in, does its run, every now and then either charges up or swaps batteries. No need to bring in av gas.
