Dayum, girl…
Mar 042020
Mar 042020
“Psycho Goreman,” by the director of “The Void” (an imperfect but reasonably effective Lovecraftian cosmic horror flick made on a very low budget). As with “The Void,” the effects look entirely practical.
The lesson of this movie seems to be “gosh, maybe it’s not such a good idea to give little children the power to command bloodthirsty murder-monsters.” Who woulda guessed.
Mar 042020
This video purports to be a rather bold robbery at a drugstore in San Francisco, demonstrating the inevitable results of policies that decriminalize theft.
San Francisco’s no arrest policy has anarchic results. pic.twitter.com/3FqauPHUaM
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) March 3, 2020
Mar 032020
The one where Mike Bloomberg is asked to defend his anti-gun position while surrounding himself with armed guards packing heat that he wouldn’t allow YOU to carry (starts at about 12:46):
He trots out the usual politician-speak of babbling incoherently on tangential subjects to pad out the time and make you *think* he actually answered… but he accidentally said what he really thinks and tried to justify his position with what boils down to “I’m more important than you and thus my life is more worthy of being defended than yours, thus I get to have more rights than you do.”
Mar 032020
Pretty computer graphics of their Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft concept, which is a helicopter with a pusher prop akin to the now half-century gone AH-56 Cheyenne:
Mar 022020
This is a direct quote from Joe Biden:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created by the you know, you know the thing."pic.twitter.com/A0MRpMmIWk
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) March 2, 2020
This is a direct quote from Joe Biden:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created by the you know, you know the thing.”
Huh. Who knew that humanity was created by The Thing?
Mar 022020
Lourdes shrine closes healing pools as precaution against coronavirus
Wait. A place that miraculously cures illness is being closed to keep people from getting sick? It’s almost as if the people who run the place don’t have complete faith in the miraculousness of their miracles.
Wouldn’t this be a FANTASTIC opportunity to prove out the effectiveness of their “healing pools?”
Related:
Applying essential oil to anus ‘cures coronavirus’: Iranian cleric
Snerk.
There’s nothing like a worldwide media freakout over what is *probably* going to turn out to be a flash-in-the-pandemic to bring out the cranks and the crazies, selling crackpottery and woo as fake cures to assuage the fearful.
Mar 012020
This video was posted on YouTube some six-ish years ago, but remains worthy of viewing and discussion. It’s a General Dynamics film to NASA from late 1962/early 1963 discussing the study of Early Manned Interplanetary Missions (EMPIRE), NAS8-5026. It describes the future as it should have been… and as how Krafft Ehricke, the presenter of the film and one of the driving forces behind the program, saw it:
1: Manned landing on the moon by the end of the 60’s.
2: Initial manned flights to (flybys and orbits) Venus and Mars in the early 70s
3: Entire solar system explored robotically by the end of the 1980’s
4: Manned mission to Pluto by 1995
Ehricke’s view of the future of space flight from the standpoint of the mid-1960’s was previously shown HERE.
The original film included a number of bits of concept art of both manned and unmanned spacecraft. Sadly no Orion vehicles are on display (it is name-dropped), but the Mars lander/excursion module was of the kind originally proposed for Orion. This was pre-Mariner when the Martian atmosphere was *massively* over-estimated; these landers and their dinky parachutes would, with the real Martian atmosphere, have made impressive craters in the surface.
Feb 292020
Woman Brutally Attacked by Somali Refugee Says Authorities Let Him Go Free Because of His 49 IQ
A woman in St. Louis was brutalized by her 15 year old neighbor with a metal rod, after said neighbor had had numerous other run-ins with criminality. The article comes complete with quite a few fairly graphic photos of headwounds… and with this:
“On arrival, we learned from that same patient advocate that Hassan’s IQ is 49,” the post reads. “This makes him incompetent to aid in his own defense, therefore all charges were formally dismissed by the prosecutor, Sakina Ahmad.”
Let that sink in. Being a dumbass not only lets you off the hook from risking your life for your country, it also seems to let you off the hook from responsibility for attempted murder.
Ahhhhmmmm… what big-brained genius decided that it was a neato-keen idea to insert foreigners with IQs of 49 into American cities? Go peddle stupid somewhere else. We’re all stocked up here.
Actual local news coverage of the situation.
Also, Facebook link with graphic photos and very long discussion of the whole situation after the break:
Feb 292020
As of today I have 100 diagrams completed for the book project. Not cruising along quite as quickly as I’d hoped… in mid January I had a few short of 70 and had hoped to do at least one per day. But there has been about two weeks worth of work time lost of various and sundry issues, and a few of the diagrams turned out to be more of a headache than expected. Things are nonetheless progressing. The spreadsheet of planned diagrams is now just a bit short of 210 total, though I expect some of those might not come to pass… better to plan to throw in *every* damn thing than plan to run lean. If nothing else, I want this book to be the sort of thing that anyone else who might have ideas about doing the same thing would take one look at and give up in despair, knowing that there is nothing more to say on the topic.