An interesting video about the last item that the US military fielded that could be called a “flamethrower,” the M202 “Flash:”
Now, it would probably be inappropriate to suggest that weapons such as this, or perhaps “Dragons Breath” cartridges for tear gas launches, would be an appropriate response to communists in the streets throwing Molotov cocktails. So don’t even think about it.
So the Chinese launched a Long March 4B rocket and “recovered” the booster stage… to certain limits of the definition of “recover.” On its way down it looks a lot like a Falcon 9 booster coming down; it just kinda skipped the “landing burn” part. And the “don’t aim at a school” part. And the “don’t spread a cloud of nitrogen tetroxide over the plebs” part.
Some impressive footage from today's Long March 4B first stage return.
ℹ：https://t.co/9oRPoR0ZdF pic.twitter.com/SEl7t1u5xJ
— LaunchStuff (@LaunchStuff) September 7, 2020
I’m sure the Chinese will steal what they need from SpaceX to fix this issue… eventually.
In order for a movie to be eligible for the Best Picture award, it will now be required to adopt certain features:
STANDARD A: ON-SCREEN REPRESENTATION, THEMES AND NARRATIVES
To achieve Standard A, the film must meet ONE of the following criteria:
A1. Lead or significant supporting actors
At least one of the lead actors or significant supporting actors is from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group.
A2. General ensemble cast
At least 30% of all actors in secondary and more minor roles are from at least two of the following underrepresented groups:
A3. Main storyline/subject matter
The main storyline(s), theme or narrative of the film is centered on an underrepresented group(s).
Huh. A movie about, say Robin Hood or King Arthur or the Vikings or the Greeks or the Romans or the Renaissance would need to be either a-historical or would be disallowed. Shakespeare is off the table. World War I or WWII or the Franco-Prussian War or Napoleon: verbotten. The early space program? Nope.
One wonders if they woke mafia behind this nonsense will go after *past* best Picture winners the same way they’ve tried to retroactively cancel the likes of H.P. Lovecraft. “Casablanca?” cancelled. “Hamlet?” “The Best Years of Our Lives?””My Fair Lady?’ “The Sound of Music?” “A Man for All Seasons?” “Patton?” “Amadeus?” “Braveheart?” “Titanic?” “A Beautiful Mind?” “Return of the King?” “The Kings Speech?” None of these would be allowed to even be *eligible* under the new era of #OscarsSoWoke.
After some study, it turns out tha tthe “Chinese mystery seeds” that people were recieving ws a much bigger issue than originally thought. *Thousands* of Americans got them in the mail. And hundreds of Americans proved that voting-by-mail was a bad idea and that voting machines should come with some sort of automated tests to prove that you are smart enough to know not to *eat* friggen mystery seeds form an antagonist nation.
Assuming the article is accurate (hey, it’s “Vice,” best to remain skeptical), tens of thousands of Americans received packages of mystery seeds. The consensus seems to be that this was a scam meant to generate five-star reviews; I remain fuzzy on just how that’s supposed to work, but ok, whatever. Let’s assume that it was just a *relatively* harmless scam, and not a more insidious plot to sow blights, invasive species or genetically engineered monsters into the American ecosystem. But this scan showed that such a plot could well work. Lots of people just went ahead and behaved foolishly with these seeds.
Americans need to be more skeptical. Americans need to be more paranoid and distrusting, especially of anyone associated with communism.
Colorado looks interesting just now…
The poster for Game of Thrones Season 9 is looking interesting. pic.twitter.com/2xWnYthuMM
— Killed by Google 🔪 (@killedbygoogle) September 8, 2020
Here’s a good idea for a website:
It’s something of a news aggregator… but stories that you might at first think are actually satire from the Babylon Bee. For example:
Which links to:
This is Critical Race Theory in a single image. pic.twitter.com/8ZhljbXlvp
— James Lindsay, relevant white dude (@ConceptualJames) September 6, 2020
Which is taken from this incident:
Gotta respect the grift. I don’t know how much you can get paid to lecture white people on how they are racist, but clearly you won’t starve to death.
And this:
Which includes this:
And this:
And this:
Ed Markey, far-left Democrat and Green New Deal loon, just beat JFK’s great-nephew in the Massachusetts Senate primary.
To celebrate, the progressive Sunrise PAC took JFK’s iconic words that we all learned in grade school and flipped them, in a perfect illustration of the state of today’s Democrat Party:
Internet went out yesterday for no readily apparent reason, finally came back on this AM. Woo.
Some Antifa terrorists in Portland tried to burn some police to death. But their aim was as bad as their ideology and they set one of their fellow travelers on fire instead.
Now we wait: will the rest of the Mostly Peaceful Protestors turn in the Molotov cocktail chucking ᛗᚩᛏᚻᛖᚱᚠᚢᚳkᛖᚱ who tried to kill cops? Surely several of them must know the identity of the attempted murder(s). Failure to turn them in implies that they are protecting them, which makes them accessories and allies. Perhaps the thing to do is to arrest *everyone* and sort through them. Take a few months to sort the bad from the truly awful.
Can anybody with experience firing shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missiles confirm that when you pull the trigger, the missile is suppose to leave the tube… not drag the launcher along with it? Cuz goll-lee, this sure don’t seem right:
Big misfire of an Igla MANPADS during the Clear Sky 2020 air defense competition in Russia 😬
pic.twitter.com/X4hH6crXX6— CNW (@ConflictsW) September 5, 2020
Because the rioters will come to *you.* There’s no escaping them.
Black Lives Matter activists raid Rochester restaurants and trash them. This is what social justice looks like. pic.twitter.com/uBDVvV5pL7
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) September 5, 2020
Black Lives Matter rioters try to break into apartment buildings. pic.twitter.com/xcEb6fns9F
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) September 5, 2020
And in this video you can see that the rioters are not only marching in *front* of private homes, they’re climbing *on* to private homes:
And it turns out – entirely unsurprisingly – that the Portland shooting of a right winger by a left winger was a result of the left winger stalking and ambushing the right winger with the apparent *purpose* of murdering him:
Commies: continuing to demonstrate that a hundred years on, they’re still the very worst people on the planet.