The rewards for APR Patrons and Monthly Historical Documents program subscribers have been sent out. Included in the November 2020 rewards package are:
1: A diagram of a proposed DC-9 aft propfan research configuration
2: A Kaman K-Max brochure
3: A preliminary draft/outline for a report on F-108 employment
4: A CAD diagram of the M61A1 Vulcan
If this sort of thing is of interest, sign up either for the APR Patreon or the APR Monthly Historical Documents Program.
Professor Tosspot is back! It’s a review of the live action “Mulan” that Disney CCP excreted out onto pay-per-streaming a while back. I’ve got approximately zero interest in Mulan (haven’t seen it, don’t plan to see it, haven’t seen the original), but a review by the ol’ Prof is always worth watching.
Things do seem to fall out of the sky a lot in Russia…
Hmmm…
UPDATE: Biden has "hairline fractures" in his mid-foot and will "likely require a walking boot for several weeks.” per pooler @JonathanTamari
— Alex Thompson (@AlxThomp) November 30, 2020
That’s swell. Just knowing that the next President is such a sturdy, rugged fella really sets your mind at ease. Coupled with his *renowned* mental acuity… why, the fate of the United States is in good, strong, dependable hands.
Planet Labs has tweeted out some photos of the Arecibo telescope taken by their Earth observing satellite.
August 10, 2020:
The Arecibo Observatory has been shut down after a structural cable failed, punching a 100-foot-long gash in the dish.
Seen here, SkySat imagery of the damage captured on August 10, 2020. pic.twitter.com/WOAx7od0yp
— Planet (@planetlabs) August 14, 2020
November 17, 2020:
In unfortunate news, the #AreciboObservatory radio telescope will be decommissioned after sustaining catastrophic damage earlier this year that can be seen from space. Read more in @nature: https://t.co/IUsruNvbjR pic.twitter.com/IHcqjqSiwh
— Planet (@planetlabs) November 19, 2020
It’s pretty much a mess.
Behold as pressure turns some metals into veritable liquids…
I’ve mentioned this before, but it’s worth bringing up again.
This is bad enough. But the $200 tax is based on the assumption that the cost doesn’t go up. That $200 tax stamp dates from when the NFA (National Firearms Act) was first imposed during the FDR regime, in 1934. It was $200 then, and amazingly hasn’t been increased since. Do not be surprised if the Biden regime tries to update the tax. $200 in 1934 money works out to about $3,886 in 2020 dollars. A $400 pistol with two magazine would thus put you on the hook for $11,658. That’s a minimum of $600, up to twelve grand, just to *keep* something you legally purchased.
Millionaires like Biden and Bernie can afford to pay the extra fees for armed private security, when they’re not protected on the government dime. Biden could doubtless afford to outfit a small army from what his family has taken in from the ChiComs. But regular folk would be screwed. And actually poor people? Not a chance. And given that black folk are disproportionately poor, it is reasonable to point out that not only are Biden’s proposed tax polices fascistic and unconstitutional, they’re racist.
Huh. Shocked. Shocked, I am.
So does leftist politics attract the Emotionally Interesting, or does it *cause* Emotional Interestingness? Or both?
Photo unrelated. Or… is it?
If 2020 had been full of videos like this, and not full of reprobates rioting and looting, it would have been an incalculably better year.
“Nobody is coming for your guns…”
Except the US Federal Government.
Looks like the ATF is angling to get the incoming BidenHarris administration to go after pistol braces and 80% lowers. Who wants to bet that BidenHarris won’t exactly put up a fight against this effort to infringe on Americans rights to keep and bear arms?
Trump squandered his opportunities. He should have worked to abolish the ATF. I suspect he may go down in history in much the same way the Weimar Republic has… a last, weak gasp of “democracy” before the totalitarians took over and trashed the joint.