Caption: After having been through the COVID-19 BS, people are ignoring monkeypox, spread between homosexual males. Still, there is hope that, in some quarters, it can be made to impact the November election.
The Left: “No one is eating people’s pets.”
This means we’re one week away from the question, “Why do you care that people are eating pets?”
Three weeks from: “Why eating pets is a good thing.”
And four weeks from: “Refusing to eat pets is white supremacy.”
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Bullet Points:
** It isn’t Buddhism exactly – Emptiness is not nothingness. Emptiness is a type of existence. You must use this existential emptiness to fill yourself. Do I do this – no, but I have a pagan ethos, peace through superior firepower, that sort of thing. “Fill your hands, you SOB, etc.” Maybe I should go to an addiction recovery class to temper it? Naaaaah.
** Powering a data center with small modular reactors – what a concept.
** Homemade robots. It stands to reason.
** Romance Tip: What is the difference between Chinese and Japanese wives?
** Deep Thoughts from Kamala’s interview on ABC today: “My approach is about new ideas, new policies that are directed at the current moment, and my focus is very much about what we need to do over the next 10-20 years to catch up to the 21st century around, again, capacity, but also challenges.”
Hypersonics – from CDRSAL
…the U.S. has taken a low-risk approach to its first-generation hypersonic weapon. It comprises a Common Hypersonic Glide Body (C-HGB) mated to a two-stage solid rocket booster stack…called Conventional Prompt Strike system.
The C-HGB is based on a 40-year-old design by Sandia National Laboratories. … the missile weighs a reported 7400kg to deliver a small 225 kg payload over 3000 km (and) is expected to cost $50 million per round, but most of the life-cycle cost of such a large weapon goes into the platform that moves and protects it. Because the Conventional Prompt Strike weapon is too large for standard vertical launch system tubes, the U.S. Navy is putting it on its three Zumwalt-class destroyers, replacing the two 155 mm guns (for which the Navy never procured ammunition). Each of these 15,900-tonne ships would carry just 12 missiles. Nine of the ten Block V Virginia-class attack submarines, priced at $4.3 billion each, will also be able to carry 12.
But here’s one reason hypersonic weapons may not be handy for the U.S. in the Western Pacific: the only ones available for prompt strike would be those in vessels within range when a conflict starts. Not many.
China doesn’t have that problem. DF-17s are carried on trucks, and most people operating them need about the same level of training as a mobile crane crew. Just about the whole stock can be available for firing from day one.
The US Navy won’t want to drop all of its precious and expensive Zumawlt Class destroyers (not really destroyers, but you know) within range of enemy submarines, which are more than likely concentrated in the areas where Zoomies and other platforms be within range of the Chinese mainland. It would be better to keep them in port, where we can look at them, and they won’t end up like Moscova.
Uzi & K
Hickok45 asks if it lives up to the hype. I’ve used them (though I preferred the Swedish K – “Kulsprutepistol” translates to bullet spraying pistol with the larger capacity suomis mag) and have no problems with them. Yes, MikeW prefers the Sten and Sterling – and he has cause. Some of it comes down to personal preferences.
Gun Control
From Sam Jacobs and Ammo.com – We explored decades of crime statistics, legislation, and firearm ownership to bring you a comprehensive article covering the facts that gun control proponents refuse to share.
Here are a few interesting highlights from our report:
- The cost of gun control in the U.S. would exceed billions of dollars and leave hundreds of millions of firearms in civilian hands.
- The Second Amendment protects the individual’s right to keep and bear arms.
- There is no positive correlation between gun control and reduced crime or homicide rates.
Although gun control seems like a simple solution to curbing violence, the data doesn’t support it. Whether we compare the U.S. to other countries or explore the impacts of gun control in the U.S. over decades, the data doesn’t support more legislation.
We’d appreciate it if you read and share the full report:
https://ammo.com/articles/anti-gun-control-arguments
And a parting shot from Hickok45
The government and its paid stooges lie to you because they want to control you. It’s challenging to exercise absolute control over a population that has access to more than one firearm for every person (and billions of rounds of ammunition) in the United States. There is a reason why the British, Canadian, Communist Chinese and Australian governments were able to browbeat their populations during the Covid 19 flu…, and the US could not to the same degree. It comes down to the armed society. Americans are generally very law-abiding, but there is a point where they might not be, and nobody wants to go there.
Identify the Aircraft
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Fifteen built
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Five ordered & Yes, a big hint
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Not a Puma – 50 built
Identify the Vehicle
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Vehicle is a Laird Centaur. Private design from the late 1970s that never took off. They made about six of them. Vaguely remember an attempt to sell them to Australian Army. No one took them seriously.
Yes, precisely. I don’t know whether or not they were a good choice in terms of having sufficient, power, etc. but they beg the question, “why?” No, I don’t think that Laird sold a single unit. Good call, though. Not many people would recognize one of them if it rolled over them.
One is Denel Rooivalk from South Africa.
Two is Milkor Model 380 UCAV again South Africa.
Three is Atlas Oryx also South Africa.
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Swedish K – one of the captains I worked with carried one in Vietnam instead of the 7.62 mm FAL that was the issued weapon for a platoon commander. His argument was that he was navigating and directing soldiers, calling artillery etc. If he needed to fight he was doing something wrong. About six months into his tour some visiting colonel saw it and he was made to go back to the FAL.
Too much machining for modern military but did you ever get to use the Owen sub machine gun?
I never fired an Owen SMG. When I was seconded in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s, some of the SBS/62 Commando types had them. I guess they were authorized. People carried what they wanted to carry in those circles. We had value in that context because the IRA was loathe to murder an American, given that the Boston Pubs and other American sources accounted for so much of their funding. Strange times.
Identify the Aircraft:
1. Denel Rooivalk
2. Milkor 380
3. Atlas Oryx
Identify the Vehicle
4. Laird Centaur
Yes!
” pagan ethos, peace through superior firepower”?
“Sell your cloak and buy a sword”
“When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace: But when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him all his armour wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.”
When I think of the atrocities committed against civilian populations (Cambodian killing fields, Jewish Holocaust, African ethnic cleansing, Wounded Knee, etc.) I can’t help but reflect that had any of them been significantly armed and willing to take up those arms, the horror would not have happened. I realize that Democrats have a particular Satanic zeal underpinning their desire to disarm the American population and reenact. We certainly saw the seeds play out during the Covid 19 exercises. We’re only a generation away from slavery, EdB – ever.
Exactly (to you both)…MonkeyPox hoax/charade/push narrative/BS will only work on those who still have a garage full of TP because the media told them to stock up, as if Georgia Pacific et al weren’t going to make anymore after 2020. *0/20 rule…we’re part of the 20%.
*80/20 rule
Thus why I the non-pacifist libertarian keep saying the cheapest peace in Darwinism theory is a stalemate of mutually assured destruction. I cheer the reduction of force projection capability difference between predator and prey through continued technological innovation.
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I realize this is the exact opposite of conservatism and organized religions, which wish for a kind master.
Hickock laughs semi-maniacally when operating the UZI full auto.
He’s clearly ammosexual. Sometimes we simply need to embrace that simply to scratch the itch in our souls.
Does a 22L v. 17HMR define which side of the ammosexual spectrum one is on? The 22 is pretty quiet while the 17 is nearly as loud as my 270 so factoring the noise quotient might have some bearing doncha think?
Tried an Uzi once. Didn’t much care for it.
Jim, one of my VERY favorites to shoot is the M-1 Thompson. The predictable muzzle climb, the heavy .45 ACP rounds chunking downrange (better if they’re .45 tracers – that look like pumpkin balls), etc. That’s been replaced by the Sig Canebreak in 300 Blackout. What are your thoughts? What about this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_6DMjoyHXs
Git sum, Jerry!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgFDNHBD8Ko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdV8EFaJw_4
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Anyone who runs is a V.C anyone who stands still is a well disciplined V.C.
Very heavy.
* I’ve never believed “gun control” was about controlling an individual’s access to/ownership of cartridge weapons any more than COVID is about diseease transmission.
* is it only me? I never felt any strong tendency for muzzle rise when firing the UZI on full auto. I think when firing it, it does induce laughter – like a little boy with a new toy
* used to see emptiness in the old psychiatric institutes; not a vacant stare, but as though the soul was looking at something I was unable to see/fathom – for several reasons, we were warned not to look too long into their eyes while treating; saw it one other time in the eyes of a man reputed to be a stone killer. not frightening, as long as they weren’t focused on you.
* I hope President Trump will ask/request Elon Musk to be in charge of weapons development; the people there now are more historians than SciFi novelists
The older SMG designs such an Uzi, M-1 Thompson, Swedish K, etc. are full auto weapons, IMHO. The more modern SMG/Machine pistols, silenced/suppressed with more modern subsonic rounds such as the .300 BLK, firing from a closed bolt, lend themselves to selective fire more readily and are “better.” Before you leap on me like a jaguar on a crock, the whole “better/worse” thing is very much in the eye of the beholder. MikeW found the Colt Woodsman with a .22LR to be quite sufficient – better than a Hushpuppy. It is darned near silent when fired single-shot. The question of application always rears its head.
Such a sheltered existence! The only automatic weapon I’ve fired is a M2. Fun, but not very portable.
Data centers and modular nuclear plants. Seems to be a trend in Wyoming. Some folks are concerned about the Chinese owning one adjacent to Warren AFB in Cheyenne, C and C for the Minuteman III silos.
Gun control. John H. Bryan, WVa Civil Rights Lawyer, closes his videos with this, “My rights don’t end where your fears begin. Freedom is scary, deal with it”. Very useful when having a ‘robust’ conversation with those who put their feelings ahead of facts.
Quick word on the cat thing. I know as a fact years ago in Chicago, there was a Chinese restaurant (Actually in Cicero) that had a freezer full of dead cats. They were caught by a surprise health inspection. So it’s hard to convince me that these newer folks are not eating waht they would normally eat in their homeland.
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There’s no report of Haitians eating human flesh (yet). Maybe they’re not doing that in Ohio. I hope not, but it’s not a secret that it sometimes happens in Haiti in both rural and urban areas.
That Oracle story really brings hope the overhead of the bullshit Big Data industry.
A gigawatt draw, and three fission generators to run a (part of) junk mail scam? Geeze.
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I remain unconvinced that “hypersonics” (of the non-nuclear-bomb-carrying sort) are
worthwhile as a weapons system. I am not convinced that the foreign ones can actually
hit anything, or are meaningfully hard to shoot down. I also am highly doubtful that
hypothetical American (or other Western) ones could possibly be cost effective, or available
in useful numbers, or that there are any enemy targets that we need them to kill that are
immune to conventional existing systems. Pretty sure that’s why we shelved development
of this crap in the ’70s. I am also extremely dubious of the idea that we are going to
actually field them, in an environment where our existing missile stockpiles are maybe
5% of what is required, and our production capacity for same is, after “ramping up” for the
purpose of using Russians to screw with Russians for laughs, maybe 20% of what’s required,
tops. Seems like adding in new, more ridiculously expensive systems before we get our house
in order regarding what we already have is poor thinking. Unless the factory is in your
Congressional district, of course.
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Will Monkey Pox work? Well yes to an extent. It never ceases to amaze me the number of people who are willing to be manipulated into a panicked herd.
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300 Blackout. I have shot it and it was fun but I do not need another caliber to support. If I need subsonic rifle, and I occasionally due go out at night with a rifle (I hate porcupines with a distinct and utter passion) I will use subsonic .308. I do not have an SBR but do use a suppressor fairly often.
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Uzi I was surprised at the amount of cheap metal stampings that it is built from. I wasn’t very accurate with it though.
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Hypersonics. Why do we keep buying weapons that cost umpteen million dollars a shot and then complain about the price and only buy a few. Gee it is almost as if people consider the major reason for war is to fund Lock-Mart, Boeing et all.
No no, the purpose of DEFENSE SPENDING is to fund Lock-Mart, Raytheon, and so forth. The purpose of WAR is to settle old scores, terrorize various peoples into (hate-filled, temporary) compliance, and to kill enemies. Now they may not be enemies of the USA (not originally anyway), but they’re someone’s enemies. Best not to think about who that someone might be.
War funds the Swamp, rewards friends with contracts, empowers alphabet agencies due to national expediency. It goes way beyond punishing somebody’s enemies and opening up markets for the powerful to exploit. Black Rock stands to make a trillion dollars now that it landed the contract to rebuild Ukraine.
An important political purpose of war is to kill off the high-performing middle class people who would compete with and displace the elites. Send them off to the crusades. That’s why kings make war in places which have no obvious investment payoff for the war in terms of international relations, land, mineral deposits, or colonial labor.
“But here’s one reason hypersonic weapons may not be handy for the U.S. in the Western Pacific: the only ones available for prompt strike would be those in vessels within range when a conflict starts. Not many.”
“Within range”… I wonder if finding out that a conflict HAS started would be having their hypersonic weapons show up on a ships radar?
I had a semi auto B model Uzi in .45 back in the 90s. With the ugly long barrel and really cool wood stock it was pretty accurate out to 100yds or so. They came with a small fake plastic barrel you could put on to make it look correct that later on collectors were willing to pay a lot of $ for because people used to just toss them.
Had a friend in collage , a rich friend , who had a full auto Thompson . He invited a bunch of us to come and shoot it. It was a hoot . He did tell everyone ,,, bring your own ammo. I prefer my colt 1911.