Jul 252020
 

Ever since the feds actually started arresting a tiny fraction of the violent rioters tearing apart cities like Portland, the riot-enablers have started screeching that *this* is the fascist government that gun-nuts have been paranoid about, and that they should charge into the cities to stand side-by-side with the Marxists and black supremacists.  This view has even appeared on this blog in the comments section.

Here is a good response to that view, written a month and a half ago:

Where are all you gun owners now?

It’s a somewhat lengthy rant, but it boils down to:

Snort. ᚠᚢᚳk off. 😃

The two main points are:

1) The people whining about the lack of gun enthusiasts coming to their aid are the same ones who have spent their lives whining about the *existence* of gun enthusiasts.

2) Who started this? Wasn’t the gun enthusiasts, but the gun grabbers.

The rioters are using kinetic energy weapons, beam weapons and chemical combustion weapons in an effort to cause damage, injuries and death. A lot of this is aimed at local businesses and local government; the local governments should therefore send in the police and National Guard to quell the insurrections. But in some cases, such as Portland, they’re not. The reasons for this are utterly baffling given that the insurrection would happily behead the local government officials who are protecting and enabling them. But the same Marxist motherᚠᚢᚳkers are also using the same tactics and weapons against *Federal* sites. The United States has seen this before… an insurrection of criminals and villains trying to take down a Federal facility. One time that site was called “Fort Sumter,” and the end result wasn’t so good for the insurrectionists or their cause, and few rational people argue that the Feds were wrong to respond.

So, rather than an army of gun enthusiasts marching into Portland to stand should to shoulder with the same ill-bred, ill-educated ill-thinking morons who have spent generations mocking them, the gun enthusiasts should stand on the sidewalks and wave little American flags as todays General Sherman marches into Portland and lays a beatdown on the Rebs.

For todays average American “right winger,” “conservative,” “libertarian,” etc., privately owned firearms are there generally for the purpose of protecting against criminality. For the far left, though, firearms (and other weapons) are there for the purpose of *enabling* criminality. These are not compatible world views.

 Posted by at 10:40 am
Jul 242020
 

Who, WHO, I ASK YOU, could have possibly seen this coming?

A&E Sees Viewership Drop 49% After Canceling Live PD

They cancelled their most popular show in order to appease people who, history has shown, can never be appeased. Good jorb!

The “Live PD” and associated spinoff shows were very low production cost, but brought in hundreds of millions of dollars in ad revenue. Ad revenue that A&E seems to have piddled away.

Live and learn, I guess. Of course, it would be better to learn these lessons from the parade of clowns who already tried this nonsense and discovered that wokeness is not a profitable business model, but, hey, so long as your stockholders are happy losing their investments, who am I to judge?

 Posted by at 6:06 pm
Jul 232020
 

Mysterious seeds sent from China to Utah

In short: forty or more people have said they have received packages in the mail from China containing seeds they didn’t order. Likely explanation: a paperwork error. Another explanation given in the story is “brushing,” some sort of scam where a company sends a random schmoe their product, and then they fabricate a positive review from said random schmoe. Explanation you’d best li1sten to: something nefarious.

1: Seeds with some biohazardous germ on them… open the package, you are infected.

2: The seeds are themselves biohazardous. They grow up to be some mutant strain of wheat or corn or taters or something that cross-pollinate with the local variety and create a generation of food crops that are damaged or dangerous or sterile.

3: F’n triffids.

4: Wherever they grow, the ChiComs will claim as part of a Chinese consulate.

Don’t plant them in your yard. Don’t flush them down the toilet… you don’t need them sprouting hentai vine-tentacles in the sewer or the septic tank. Don’t throw them in the trash; they’ll probably germinate in the landfill and you’ll end up with a Red Commie Jolly Green Giant that stinks of month-old diapers and cat litter. You know, like most communists.

 Posted by at 8:54 pm
Jul 232020
 

But wait! There’s more!

Star Trek: Prodigy Is Nickelodeon’s New Animated Series, and It Drops Next Year

Prodigy, as previously revealed, will follow a group of “lawless” teenagers who find themselves aboard a derelict Starfleet vessel—which we can only speculate for now will be called the Prodigy—that they take command of, before boldly setting off on their own adventures exploring the galaxy and doing things a bunch of teens probably shouldn’t get up to aboard a former military/science/exploratory vessel.

Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…………………………………………………

 Posted by at 8:10 pm
Jul 232020
 

An illustration from a 1964 Boeing report on Saturn V first stage recovery and re-use. A number of concepts were studied, from balloons to parachutes. This particular one used parachutes to slow the stage and solid propellant retro-rockets in the nose for terminal braking, doing something akin to Falcon’s “hoverslam” just before splashdown. The forward LOX dome in the concept would be structurally strengthened to survive the impact. After the initial splash, rockets would be used to tip the stage over in a particular direction… and then more, bigger rockets would be used just before the stage fell over to keep it from hitting too hard.

Another concept was to use a design that would blow off the LOX tank forward dome before impact. The stage would thus hit the water like an inverted cup. As the water compressed the air within the LOX tank, blowout doors at the “bottom” of the tank would, well, blow out, giving the compressed air somewhere to go. This would serve as a pneumatic shock absorber for the stage, but it would pretty much trash the LOX tank.

 Posted by at 5:59 pm
Jul 232020
 

On the one hand:

Awww, ain’t that nice. These moms care so much about insurrectionists trying to burn down buildings with people in them and succeeding in intentionally causing permanent blindness among federal employees that they’re willing to come out in force to protect the criminal element from the nasty police who would stop the vandalism, arson and murders. But you know who they are *not* protecting? Children. Often enough, their own children.

Black Lives Matter supporter seen kneeling on white baby’s neck in viral photo jailed, awaits charges

Posted by Vincent James on Tuesday, July 21, 2020

What we have here is one Isaiah Jackson. Six foot two, 175 pounds, and kneeling on the neck of a restrained, terrified two-year-old, in a photo posted with the caption “Blm now mf.” Mr. Jackson is *not* the father of the child… but he is the childs mothers boyfriend. The mother, not the owner of the arm seen restraining the child, defended her winner of a boyfriends actions. The father now has custody of the child, and the boyfriend is in jail on unrelated charges.

One *might* argue that the mother was uninvolved in the incident and thus is not culpable. But Mr. Jackson here is not some random stranger who abducted her child… he’s her boyfriend, of her own free choice. And he has an extensive criminal record:

This is the man the mother entrusted with the care of her child. She had to know what manner of man he was, what his morals and ethics were like, what his politics were, how racist he was… and she left her child with him.

Lest you think that this is just one random scumbag, remember that a second adult participated in this by restraining the child, and probably a third by holding the camera. But wait! There’s more!

Special Ed Teacher Praises Man For Kneeling On White Baby’s Neck, Encourages Him To Kill the Baby

That’s Brian Papin, a *teacher* at Cedar Grove High School in Atlanta, Georgia. I do believe that that school has received a *lot* of unsolicited opinions regarding their current employment roster. Their Facebook page has a *lot* of comments on it…

Brian Papin is hardly likely to be alone in think that that photo not only is good and proper, but perhaps doesn’t go far enough. We are heading into some interesting times.

This is the kind of “mom” who would intentionally drag her unborn child into the firing line of rubber bullets, tear gas and Molotov cocktails in order to protect the scum of the Earth from the law.

George Orwell came close: “If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.”

 

One wonders how much of this the kid will remember, and whether he’ll be confronted with this photo as he grows up. And as a result, what his views of the world and the people in it will be.

 Posted by at 4:54 pm