Here Comes the Weekend
Bullet Points:
** BRM points out how England handles road repair. If it works, it works. I’m not judging the British.
** Two Chicago racial interest groups that are major allies of Mayor Brandon Johnson published Wednesday what they want Johnson to pursue new taxes: a city income tax, a wealth tax, a “head tax” assessed per worker on employers, a digital ad tax, a jump in the tax on jet fuel used at Chicago’s airports, a progressive increase on real estate transaction fees on sales over $1 million. The new taxes would total $6.8 billion according to the plan and would be coupled with supposed savings of $5.1 billion that would be redirected to other spending, totaling nearly $12 billion. That would provide for reparations to be directed to a wide range of sexual and racial groups with grievances.
The proposal is co-written by Saqib Bhatti, a member of Johnson’s transition team and co-executive director of ACRE, one of the report sponsors. “I think it’s appropriate to hold [Johnson] accountable for the promises he’s made,” Bhatti told Crain’s. “Mayor Johnson ran on a platform that actually included some of these things.”
Chicago’s business will look back fondly on the days when Lori (Beetlejuice) Lightfoot ran the city.
** Superversive literature is discussed here.
** America’s elite portrays itself as progressive, but their underlying ethos can’t be rooted in Marx. Marx isn’t merely hypocrisy but a cover, a cloak. From their actions, redistribution of their wealth and a classless society where they have no more power and influence than the common man is the last thing they want.
**.”Illinois is forecasting that its program to provide healthcare to undocumented immigrants will cost the state $1 billion in 2024 – far more than the $2 million that Illinoisans were promised it would cost at the program’s inception, according to Wirepoints.
In May 2020, Illinois became the first state to offer Medicaid for undocumented immigrants over the age of 65.
Now-Congresswoman Delia Ramirez, then an Illinois state representative, sponsored the bill and claimed the program would cost just $2 million per year.
Unfortunately, this estimate was completely uninformed, with the program exceeding that in its first month.
At the time, she said the coverage will save the state money in the long run, and the cost of $2 million, “is nothing to a $2 billion Medicaid bill,” The State Journal-Register reported.”
—or we could simply deport them.
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From the Days of Fighting Sail
Wads for guns, before 1718
Wadding was part of a cannon charge, with one wad in front and one behind the projectile (often a cannonball). This served to trap the gases as the lit gunpowder burned, increasing the energy produced when the cannon fired.
The front plug stabilized the projectile as it traveled down the barrel of the cannon. In 1627 wads were made of oakum, old clouts, or straw, and from the 18th century, they became old rope, hay, and other materials assembled by the gunner.
The wads here were made from coiled rope or textiles found at Queen Anne’s Revenge and have survived in the bores of the loaded guns.
Identify the Aircraft
Another view
Identify the Aircraft:
German AEG G.II updated with additional vertical tail surfaces to improve flight handling characteristics.
Absolutely. I can’t imagine flying one into combat, but there is the context of the time and place, isn’t there.
Hafta start somewhere, all that early airframe innovation was done without “help” from government bureaucrats regulating the real geniuses and risk takers.
I imagine that there were a lot of false starts. There was a war, which meant big R&D funding, but these guys (not including Fokker and the more established engineers) were just assembling out of wood, fabric, and wire. Wind tunnels came along and they helped, but it was far from an exact science.
It was trial and error, but on the plus side, wood/fabric/wire construction was quick to build and easy to modify.
And those guys had the hands tools and the skills to use them on readily available materials of the day. Wooden boat building has a similarly amazing skill set in both metal and woodworking, and still carries forward today in select traditionalist communities.
Thing is, that’s what’s important, building and doing things that make a difference while advancing society, not repress it like The Left demands.
The AEG G.II was probably the heaviest and one of the hardest airplanes to fly in WWI. Adding power and extra rudders really didn’t help it all that much. Yes, wadding was a ‘thing’ back then, otherwise the ball or cannon ball could literally roll OUT of the barrel.
Still a thing today, for shotguns.
-Kle.
Power Piston
A good Gunner, or a good sharpshooter, would carefully select balls of similar sizes, ones that fit the bore of his gun the best. And carefully made the wadding and controlled the loading. Doing all of this ensured the tightest gas seal and aided the accuracy of the smoothbores.
Reaming the bore every two or three shots to break down fouling helped, too.
Smoothbores can be a lot more accurate and a lot farther ranged than ‘experts’ say they are.
Good gunnery required trained and picked men who were literally artists with their guns. The British fostered this among their crews and the success they repeatedly enjoyed against otherwise equal foes told the tale.
Until they ran across the new American Navy. Our gunners were better and faster.
What did Maggie say, it’s all very well “until you run out of other people’s money.”
Quite.
The Brandon regime has a license to print money.
Hence why us little people are seeing their investments and equity (proper equity, not that SJW BS they are peddling) go by the wayside. Inflation – at high double digits – is chewing up every gain like Pacman.
The elections are rigged. They do what they want to.
I wonder if the British solution to getting pot holes fixed would work here?
You all be safe and God bless.
LindaG, if you arm yourself with cans of spray paint and go out in under the cover of darkness, you might be able to experiment.
America’s elite, and the World’s elite, aren’t marxist or socialist at all. They push marxism and socialism upon the masses, but the elites are all, to the last one, neo-feudalists.
They want people to be tied forever to a location or a job. They want control over areas or businesses. They want to control all aspects of the lives of the people who a re permanently tied to the areas or businesses that They control. And no low-level peon can climb to join the power elite without paying a huge price.
Feudalism. It’s what They want. And They want the people to be subjects, unarmed and uneducated cogs, peasants, serfs and slaves.
Just watch the movie “Metropolis” (and find the longer playing version, makes more sense than the ‘American’ release) and it’s all there. The power elite living it large while the ‘regular man’ is a disposable resource to be worked to death for the pleasure of the power elite. The power elite have cars, trains, planes, food, beautiful housing, parties, all the trappings of high society, while the workers are starving, worked to death, beaten and killed for no other reason than ‘because.’
Most dystopian literature includes this theme. The. Hunger Games series, the Divergent series, Blade Runner, Brave New World, etc.
“Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.” (1984) “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.”
I’ve enjoyed much success in blowing leftards’ brains when I point out what The Hunger Games really is. Come on, Capital? Districts that are rural and send all their work to Capital, which is huge and does nothing? Seriously?
I enjoy shoving it in their faces.