If you have to explain yourself
It’s useful to use training aids.
Bullet Points:
** Neuroweapons – Weapons of Mass Disruption (h/t Stringshot)
** More on the above – Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) sponsored this talk entitled Brain Science from Bench to Battlefield: The Realities – and Risks – of Neuroweapons
The use of Sarin gas in Syria and the nerve agent VX to assassinate Kim Jong-Nam, and ongoing efforts in brain science by both nations and non-state actors (inclusive of a growing community of do-it-yourself/biohacker scientists) prompt renewed interest in the current and near-term possibilities of developing and employing neuroweapons. Discourse at the most recent meeting of Biological, Toxin, and Weapons Convention (BTWC), and ongoing efforts of a Working Group of the European Union Human Brain Project reinforced the need to more rigorously address research and use of weaponizable brain science.
** Yeonmi Park is a North Korean defector, human rights activist, and author who survived an unimaginable childhood and escape from the hermit kingdom before making it to the United States.
Park, 29, grew up in North Korea where she experienced extreme hunger and poverty. She was 13 years old when she and her mother were able to escape to China, but their struggles continued. Two years later, a Christian missionary group helped them flee to South Korea where she experienced freedom for the first time.
You seem to lack motivation…
New Zealand P-40
New Zealand ace Flying Officer Geoffrey Fisken standing in front of ‘Wairarapa Wildcat’, a Curtiss P-40M-5, on Guadalcanal. 1943.
Dodge Powerwagon
Even if I found something like this, I doubt that I could afford it. Would I steal it? No. But if you left the keys in the ignition, I might joy-ride the heck out of it. I can resist anything but temptation.
You Age Yourself based on the lighter you carry.
Attitude
Identify the Aircraft
Identify the Aircraft:
Avro Athena
Certainly!
“Yeah, but them fokkers was in Messerschmitts.”
Are the grandkids gathered?
Some of them are. We’re canoeing later today (among other things).
Pronunciation lessons, perhaps?
That sawed-off is a cute little thing and well executed. Do want.
The ATF wouldn’t think well of your comment.
Maybe it identifies as a pistol. That would make it okay wouldn’t it?
Yes, that would square everything, but better if it identified as a fuzzy baby blanket with little bunnies on it. Even a stick can be illegal in the right context, but who can be offended by a receiving blanket?
The BATFE can suck my juevos. Come to think of it, those twinkle-toed bastides probably would enjoy that. So scratch that idea.
What’s really strange about sawed off weapons is that they do fit quite well as military weapons. Sawed off shotguns and SBRs, along with brass knuckles and switchblades, were widely used in wars up to and including WWI.
Beans, asking to engage in sodomy with ATF definitely puts you “in their lane”.
What Beans said.
Gleeful grandchildren were gathered
At Grandfather’s remote rural redoubt
Canoeing will be committed; Memories
Forged from feats of riverine renown,
Followed by feasting fit for heroes.
Well done.
Tack så mycket. The second-string skald strikes again. (Bargain-basement bard has a better ring to it, I’m thinking, but not appropriate here, alas.)
I’d love to have that Winchester but I doubt I could afford it. I used a Zippo back in my smoking days. Nowadays I keep a couple of Bics around in case I need to make fire.
I don’t smoke, but I do find a use for a lighter now and then.
My mother smoked every day I knew her, and died of lung cancer when I was 13. Kinda soured me on tobacco products. +1 on the Bic lighters. Very handy for shrink tubing on electric wire connections. I do keep a can of lighter fluid on my work bench as it makes a decent de-greaser/cleaning solvent for small tasks. Decades ago I came into a life time supply of RCBS case sizing lube. I use the lighter fluid to thin it a bit. Trivia question: What does RCBS stand for?
Rock Chuck Bullet Swage
Bingo! I worked the retail gun counter at Huntington’s circa 2012.
RHT, use STP (oil additive) as case lube It works better, is less expensive, etc. You don’t need to warm it, just put it on a sponge out of the can and the cases slide into those dies like – well you know.
Yeah, that rings a bell. Think I read about it somewhere (ABC’s of reloading perhaps). Not to hijack this thread for reloading, but I’m curious, how do you remove the STP after sizing? My process for the RCBS lube has been to dump the sized cases into a plastic bucket, spray with GUNK engine degreaser, let sit, rinse, repeat with Dawn. These days I just toss them in the rotary tumbler with SS pins. My wash agent is Armorall car wash.
Gunk or WD-40. Light spray takes the STP off and leaves a pleasant sheen of lube that doesn’t foul in the chamber.
My dad had one of these that his dad left him from WW1:
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I have no idea where it went.
I’ve seen those, they’re very cool.
I worked with a couple in restoring their Power Wagon back in the 70s.
Awesome joy ride.
https://www.legacyclassictrucks.com/
The price tag is brutal.
Whoa!
or Woe!
$450K + plus winch bumper + etc. so I’d be somewhere around half a million plus tax – with extortionary registration and insurance.
Those Legacy boys do a nice job…sell mostly to multimillionaires and the billionaires who have taken over Jackson and Flathead Lake. Those groups care little on the $285k build starting price or scratching the paint job.
I doubt that those Legacy rigs have a lot of pinstriping on them.
Very much like the Power Wagon.
That is the most informative and accurate graph I have seen in the last month.
Like Jim, I no longer smoke but each of my go bags has a couple of lighters in it.
I have a buddy who worked for a regional airline in Atlanta back in the 90s. They operated two different models of Fokker commuter jets, one with a larger pair of jet engines than the other, but otherwise almost identical. They referred to them as the Big Motor-Fokker and the Little Motor-Fokker
:)
Interesting thoughts on the neuroweapons. It appears the rocks in warfare are getting smaller and smaller. In the 80s, Air Force flight surgeons pushed a pill on pilots with the advice, “Take it or you will be grounded permanently.” The pill was supposed to open neve synapses to prevent nerve agents from closing them allowing the pilot to walk around without MOP gear.
Apparently that was disqualifying for Northwest Airlines, because one pilot was turned down during his medical exam when the Delta doc noticed that in his medical record.
Those pills were toxic. I’ve mentioned it here. My guys were forced to take them. We had them signed off and flushed the pills. Odd, the CIA told us they were toxic.
Ironically, in Navy Aviation they were verboten… And as LL said, they were toxic.
Learned to drive in a 53 Dodge Power wagon on the farm, it wasn’t nearly as purty as that one!
The Power Wagon was designed as a farm implement – just about as simple as a tractor to repair and drive, no frills. Priced accordingly, originally.
Zippo for dad, marine’s got him smoking. Bic lighter for me, of Clicker in the house.
Matches are so passé yet I keep a box of strike anywhere just in case.
I started smoking when I first entered the AF. Our TI said smoke em if you got them and the rest of you (expletive deleted) get cleaning the latrine. Didn’t take me long to figure out I needed to start smoking. Quit in the mid 80s.
@ED+Campbell same here. I quit when the wife was pregnant with our first.
I have my JCSE zippo in my Shadow Box. It is a reminder of being young and doing dumb things like jumping out of an air plane for an extra $75 a month.
I love this blog for many reasons, not least its INFOGRAPHICS.
Wow, right on the historical or lack thereof money.