Identify the Aircraft
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There is a story behind these engines…
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This one might be trickier to ID than the run-of-the-mill.
Identify the knocked-out armor (Ukraine)
Bullet Points:
** Blinky puts his thumb on the scale. No surprise there.
** The Sermonette: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” ~ C. S. Lewis
This is about the climate agenda coming from the United Nations and the World Economic Forum, academia, the corporate world, identifying every facet of modern society as being a climate ‘problem’ that needs managing and thus a takeover. So whether we’re talking about transportation, whether it’s airlines, whether it’s gas-powered cars, whether it’s eating meat, whether it’s high-yield agriculture, it’s all allegedly creating a ‘climate emergency’ and thus global elites want to take over and ‘manage’ them. They are looking for a managerial revolution. They want to put themselves in charge of saving the planet and thus put themselves in charge of all aspects of modern society.”
** “The NYC Adams regime has announced a plan to begin tracking the carbon footprint created by household food consumption as well as a new target for New York City agencies to reduce their food-based emissions by 33% by the year 2023.”
The mayor is clueless about preventing and punishing crime, but he is demonstrating his social prowess and desire to promote the well-being of his residents by attacking greenhouse gas pollution caused by alcoholic beverages and food. I think the honorable mayor and his administration have slipped into the realm of satire without realizing it.
Pssst. Buddy. I got beef jerky. Right here, man… And a can of Spam…dude. If you show this to that fine thing at the end of the bar? She’s yours.
** Imagine being so bad with money that you could steal 40% of a nation’s income and still end up $30 trillion in debt.
** I can look into your dead eyes while you’re talking and not hear a word you said.
** Hot Chili -The weaponization of commodities in a world that is increasingly turning multipolar and where legacy trade links and commercial bridges are burning down metaphorically (and in some cases literally) is accelerating.
Chile’s President Gabriel Boric stunned the world on Thursday when he said he would nationalize the country’s lithium industry, the world’s second largest producer of the metal essential in electric vehicle batteries, to boost its economy and protect its environment.
The shock move in the country with the world’s largest lithium reserves would in time transfer control of Chile’s vast lithium operations from industry giants SQM and Albemarle to a separate state-owned company.
** Uranium mining in the United States hasn’t been profitable since the Russians flooded the global market with predatorily priced ore and processed fuel a decade ago. That may be changing.
** My grandsons always demand Grandpa’s roast beef & provolone sliders. >>WARNING<< – consumption may lead to toxic masculinity.
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Sunday Movie Recommendation:
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History
Some German VOMAG buses were converted into platforms and/or transports for the 8.8 cm flak gun. Info is scarce but between 20 and 40 may have been made, there is evidence of them operating in Budapest in 1944.
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Vikings
Vikings had a settlement in North America exactly one thousand years ago – centuries before Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas, according to a new study.
Scientists say a new dating technique analyzing tree rings has provided evidence that there were Vikings living in a site in Newfoundland, Canada, in 1021AD.
It’s been known for a while that Europeans reached the Americas before Columbus’s arrival in the new world in 1492 – but this is the first time researchers have come up with an exact date.
Identify the knocked-out armor (Ukraine):
T-72 and BMP-3
Identify the Aircraft:
2. Fokker D.21
Number 1 looks like an early Pe-2, but there isn’t much to help on the identification.
#1 Not a Pe-2
Focus on the engines.
#2 is indeed a Fokker D-21
Correct on the armor.
This variant (later in WW2) flew with 2 x Daimler-Benz DB 605A-1 V-12 inverted liquid-cooled piston engine 1,475 PS (1,455 hp; 1,085 kW)
Heinkel He 111
Yes
Hitler diverted the engines from Messerschmidt. Willy Messerschmidt was focusing on the Me-262 at the time and didn’t die on that hill.
The movie was great, and the novel was pretty good, too.
I first watched the film when I was in high school as I recall.
Saw The Blue Max in the theater years ago. Pretty decent flying scenes if I recall.
My cholesterol level climbed 50 points on seeing the picture of those sliders. I don’t care. I want about a dozen.
If your arteries don’t crackle when you stand up from the table, did you really have a good meal?
Told MrsPaulM that’s what’s for dinner. She agreed. Yum. After today’s “tractor therapy” now the Springtime in the Rockies post Winter hit has subsided, that’ll be just the ticket. Besides, Carbs have been unfairly maligned…brings out the Viking in all of us.
I often made sliders when raising my boys. We called them piroshki. There were seldom any leftovers.
Eat what you want. Die like a man.
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We’re all going to die. Why die hungry or with regrets?
Blinken- Election interference. Will he be removed or resign? Nope. Hubris of the special appointed class. This lines it out fro all of these bum criminals, all the R’s should use it for their campaign:
https://twitter.com/RealMattCouch/status/1649537773580300288?s=20
Yet, we find ourselves here:
(h/t BRM, an excerpt from Teddy Roosevelt’s “Ranching Life and Hunting Trail”, principles matter.)
“In any wild country where the power of the law is little felt or heeded, and where every one has to rely upon himself for protection, men soon get to feel that it is in the highest degree unwise to submit to any wrong without making an immediate and resolute effort to avenge it upon the wrong-doers, at no matter what cost of risk or trouble. To submit tamely and meekly to theft, or to any other injury, is to invite almost certain repetition of the offense, in a place where self-reliant hardihood and the ability to hold one’s own under all circumstances rank as the first of virtues.”
Vikings- Like most Scandinavians (except “pawn scold” Greta), Viking didn’t care about the fanfare, they came to explore not exploit. CC still did the voyages…no small feat…but had the opposite intent (depending on who you read).
The Vikings needed a better publicist & more people in Vinland. :-)
It was simply too far from home to rely on a stream of settlers.
And the natives were a bunch of ungrateful skraelings, so there’s that.
As to publicity, for a very long time Academia has actively destroyed any evidence of Scandinavians in North America. Until the discovery of L’anse aux Meadows shoved it in their faces and the discoverers publicized their discovery before Academia could shut them down. And, no, not a conspiracy theory. Sadly.
When they had that large fire in the four corner’s region a commenter from that region, on one site, said the burned off area exposed a lot of stuff that was going to really upset the archaeological applecart. For some odd reason, nothing at all made the national news and there were no big names proclaiming all the wonderful new information made available. Maybe they were too busy burying it back up again.
If seen the rangers do those very things.
Franz Boas is called “the father of American anthropology”. Here’s what wiki has to say:
“Boas was one of the most prominent opponents of the then-popular ideologies of scientific racism, the idea that race is a biological concept and that human behavior is best understood through the typology of biological characteristics.”
I was going to say something snarky about Boas being totally German, just like Karl Marx was 100% German. (JUST German, G-d damn it!), but I was surprised to find an actual connection:
“An important early influence was the avuncular Abraham Jacobi, his mother’s brother-in-law and a friend of Karl Marx, and who was to advise him through Boas’s career.”
I knew (and disapprove) of Boas because of this: “Boas also introduced the idea of cultural relativism, which holds that cultures cannot be objectively ranked as higher or lower, or better or more correct”
So back to Beans’ observation that “Academia has actively destroyed any evidence of Scandinavians in North America”. Well, yeah. This is what you get when you let hostile and resentment-filled outsiders narrate (and create) the story of your people.
Race is NOT biological? It’s not possible (or rather, valid) to state that some cultures are superior to others? What twaddle. What utter bullshit. It takes a high IQ and a history of millennia of elevating men who spend their lives arguing over esoteric trivia to breed a human capable of spouting, and possibly actually genuinely believing, such nonsense.
Academia for the last 150 years has been controlled by the Victorian Age historians, who were total aholes and purposely destroyed lots of evidence that countered their pet hypotheses.
Like evidence that medieval culture was full of color. But a lot of the Victorians spent their time chipping off plaster murals from family homes and castles because ‘medieval people’ didn’t have color and lived drab lives.
Modern jerks are the ones that buy Colonial-era homes and hammer all the carefully hand-hewed beams to make them look ‘old.’
Boas and his disciples (many of whom were his co-ethnics) were/are nothing like Victorian. Proper Victorians would have been completely supportive of the idea that culture is downstream of innate behavior which is downstream from race. And Victorians would have said that of course their own culture was superior. (Even to the point where they were wrong.)
Cultural relativism is what you get when a big-brained thinker cogitates so hard that he wraps the dial around from being really really smart back to being utterly stupid. In signal processing this is known as aliasing. Also, and probably more importantly, CR is what you get from a (resentful and insecure) person whose ancestral culture is NOT the dominant culture in the time and place where he lives. To make himself feel good about his marginal(ized) ancestral culture, he goes about telling himself and the world that the dominant culture is not inherently superior; it just happened by dumb luck, or from malice, or something.
Victorian historians may indeed have been assholes, but Boas wasn’t peddling anything Victorian, nor even particularly European.
The sliders look most excellent; of course your grandsons would ask for them, it is only right.
Global cooling, global warming, climate change etc. It is all about garnering more and more power. Our leadership is like a glutton with food; always needs more.
Armor. Takes a great amount of courage to drive around in a mobile target when you know the accuracy and lethality of anti armor missiles.
The doctrine required that the artillery soften up hard points and then the infantry dismount and move through the area before the armor (used against other armor) moved through. The Russians didn’t do that systematically. They stayed buttoned up in their AFVs and died there.
Those weren’t Vikings in Newfoundland back then. It was a settlement from Dahomey, led by an elite all-womyn fighting force.
Oh, remains were tested and have Scandinavian DNA? Well, then I’m sure the pig-ignorant Vikings were taught and led by a wise and tolerant Moor.
No evidence of wise and tolerant Moors? Well, just because you have no proof of something doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. But that said, if it was just Scandinavians, it couldn’t have been Vikings*. It was no doubt a colony of radical pan-sexual dissidents in search of freedom.
*A Scandinavian girl told me about a confusing encounter she had with some American college girls visiting her country.
American: What happened to the Vikings?
SG: I don’t know, I guess we just stopped doing it.
A: No! What did you DO with them?
SG: I don’t understand; we didn’t DO anything about it.
A: Why won’t you tell me? Are you embarrassed? They live on terrible reservations don’t they, like prisons. Just like those poor Native Americans!
SG: Oh! No, Vikings aren’t a race. Or if they are it’s us, me. It was something you did, like a job or lifestyle.
A: Stop lying to me!
Time bred the Viking out of a lot of them. Or maybe it was the Moors?
Or the wars of Charles XII. The Great Northern War was a bloodbath for both sides but there are more Russians than Swedes.
Growing up in the Midwest in the 50’s-60’s, there were interesting displays of erudition.
Like asking which direction the Indian raids came from.
Or asking if we had telephones yet.
Viking is a verb. People who went viking were not Vikers. They were Norse, Danes, Swedes, Finns (well, some Finns,) Rus, Smaalanders, Icelanders. But not Vikers.
Raiders in long ships=Vikings. They mounted expeditions during seasonable good weather. There was not good farmland to be had for the expanding population. England, Fresia, and France in particular (and Jutland to a lesser extent) were locations to both raid and settle. Russia and down the Volga too. Once they settled, they became part of the population in a generation or two.
What is the difference between a chauvanche and a Viking raid? Very little.
And what caused the expanding population? Oh, that’s right, the world was 4-5 degrees warmer than today.
But try explaining this to pea-brained leftist enviro-twats and they’ll want to burn you at the stake for heresy.
Will check out the movie. Sad we lost Chile.
Chile borders on fascist anyway. I’m not surprised.
The move in Chile doesn’t surprise me. South America is ‘known’ for games like that. Bet there will be some ‘interesting’ conversations with the Chinese over that. Re the sliders, ALWAYS a good meal!!!
Norsemen. Too much evidence that both North and South America were visited and settlements established by other races long before Columbus. I’ve heard heretical speculation both continents have always had humanoid inhabitants.
“Out of Africa” is entrenched “settled science” and not to be questioned.
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Isn’t it time for a fast food franchise for those sliders?
The White Wolf Mine Bistro, elevated comfort food with an international flare.
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For those so inclined, I just finished an excellent book titled, “History of the Great War, 1914-1918 The Western Front” by James Lloyd. No war before or since will ever compare to the 4 years of wholesale slaughter in the trenches and no mans land. Incredible. I was gobsmacked, as the brits would say. Thought I was well-versed on the subject until this book.
Neat Boas point(s) above and a helpful bullet point sermon. Lewis is excellent value.
The article on uranium production is rather simplistic and not wholly accurate.
There are some mines coming online soon that will have uranium as secondary production – it’s in the ore and easier to add an extraction circuit than deal with it as waste.
Anywhere that does acid leach, like the big copper mines in Arizona, has to deal with it.
Are you sure that’s a BMP3? The gun looks too big in diameter to be the 30 mm used on the BMP2 and 3; it looks more like the 73 mm gun of the BMP1 to me.
BMP-3 has a 100mm, and a 30mm co-ax.
-Kle.