| Author | Message | ||
     Aesquire |
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-27/american s-didnt-need-original-new-deal Pity that it's only in Ton Clancy's Red Storm Rising that the Comanche gets used. ( I haven't seen otherwise ) Ditto the imaginary F-19. Which had a model made based on open source information. It was assumed that the Soviets would build a faceted design, since it was their scientist that came up with the mathematical model for faceted stealth. ( and a plastic model was sold of the faceted Russian stealth plane ) And the U.S. Would build a curved stealth plane based on the A-12/SR-71 example. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-19 http://fantastic-plastic.com/MONOGRAM%20F-19%20STE ALTH%20PAGE.htm http://fantastic-plastic.com/TESTORS%20F-19%20STEA LTH%20PAGE.htm http://fantastic-plastic.com/TESTORS%20MIG%2037-B% 20FERRETT%20PAGE.htm One of the missions in the game F-19 Stealth Fighter was a near copy of the mission in Red Storm Rising, where a Comanche sneaks under an AWACS radar plane to take it out. The graphics in the game look so primitive now, but it was great stuff on my 386 computer. And while I'm so off topic... They released a graphics patch for the original Borderlands game for Xbox One. A buddy has it and showed it off. Now I have to get the Xbox One, darn it. My reaction was "wow. Hey, I didn't know that was there! I never saw it on my Xbox 360" remember Quake and Room speed runs? The whole game in 8 minutes? I saw an 11 hour Borderlands speed run...And he cheats. | ||
| Sifo |
Sad day for justice in America. | ||
| Hootowl |
The judge is an idiot. Or a partisan hack. No, they didn’t use his name. But they used his face. If I put up a picture of the judge with a caption that read “some justices don’t have a brain in their heads” would he assume I was referring to him? | ||
| Aesquire |
https://babylonbee.com/news/cdc-people-dirt-clinto ns-843-greater-risk-suicide | ||
| Aesquire |
http://peggynoonan.com/what-were-robespierres-pron ouns/ | ||
| Aesquire |
https://news.yahoo.com/shadow-force-the-secret-his tory-of-the-us-intelligence-communitys-battle-with -irans-revolutionary-guard-090000959.html I'm one of those who thought that after freeing Iraq, we should have moved on to liberate Iran. Thousands of lives were lost because we did not. And one reason we did not was a treasonous CIA officer that leaked that Bush had asked for a plan to stop the Iranian religious dictatorship from giving weapons to AQ & serving as a terrorist safe haven & conduit to murder Americans & Iraqis. One man, unknown, unekected, decided to betray his oath and the world because he knew better and was able to exercise power way above his pay grade by leaking to a Leftist press eager to destroy Bush. I wonder what that traitor is doing today, in the CIA, to betray America to get Trump? | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14360/standoff- between-civilizations Freedom of speech, the most readily available alternative to violence, is, in many places, being ruled illegal. When it is, social dislocation is likely to follow. Taking away free speech rights in the name of suppressing "Hate Speech" is basically a cowardly act. Fear of Muslim attacks in this case. Real but rational Islamaphobia. I must point out that a so called phobia, while sometimes irrational, ( example, fear of the number 13, or fear of yonic symbols ) can be very rational, but to excess ( fear of fire, fear of falling ) In layman's terms, getting frightened climbing a ladder would be a Phobia, vs. Good Sense, if that fear were excessive. For example, causing you to freeze on the ladder, or refusing to climb at all, when the vast majority would not refuse or freeze. This measure of sanity has, unfortunately, a little Mob rules issues, and a lot of cultural/generational differences. By Mob rules I mean that the majority, by their own definition, is sane, while a minority is not. In a near parity situation? Like U.S. politics, where it's obvious to me that Occasional -Cortex is crazy, and she believes that anyone who disagrees is crazy. Who is right? Is my generational bias adversely affecting my judgment? ( sure it is! But I also draw upon millennia of past generation's thought. ) In fact calling normal, rational fears Phobias is in this case, a deliberate insult and accusation of insanity, to discredit a person's viewpoint. That more than adequately covers Islamaphobia. So... Your right to complain about, say, female genital mutilation, is suppressed. A person shoots up a Mosque, ( Christchurch murders ) in part, because of his frustration at being oppressed by his own government. Almost everyone agrees he is insane and condemns his actions. ( and now hidden evidence alleged he was also a White Supremacist. But/And also aware of more than a thousand years of struggle against theocratic dictatorship imposed from abroad. ) But why is his speech oppressed? ( besides part of his views being repugnant ) or better yet, why is your speech oppressed? Simply fear of being attacked by fundamentalist Islam, who demands there be no opposing voices against the Will of Allah. It's an interesting example of cliche being wrong sometimes. I mean the one that goes "If the people fear the Government, there is tyranny, if the government fears the people there is Liberty" https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-colle ctions/when-government-fears-people-there-liberty- spurious-quotation And I question if a crazy tiny minority, like the Christchurch murderer, killed the politicians that oppressed his speech instead of innocents who are simply of another, if problematic faith, who would the Government fear more? Not an idle question. People who have rational questions/fears about Islam here are threatened with theft of their free speech rights. And not a question meant to encourage the premise of murder as a political statement! I suspect the answer would not be Liberty, or a change of course by the Government, but would be tyranny, accelerated. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/07/two -perspectives-on-juul.php As a nicotine addict, I support voluntary use of safer alternatives to inhaling smoke. As an old fart, I can understand the jealousy other old farts have to vapers. Interesting political sides choosing on the subject. | ||
| Sifo |
I will say that JUUL is the coveted vape product in high schools and even middle schools. It's designed to be very easy to conceal and looks like a large thumb drive. Of course, being so small and easy to carry could also be attractive to adults who choose to vape. What do you do? | ||
| Zac4mac |
I started showing early signs of COPD. Now on a lo-dose patch and a JUUL. Smoked one cigarette in the last week. it works. Need to get a pack of refills on the way to work now. Z | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/07/disse cting_uncle_tom_as_an_insult.html Time to re-read some classics. Gutenberg Project, here I come. How surprised would you be if I told you that Democrat racist insults are lies? | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/30/excl usive-gops-house-campaign-arm-launches-national-ad -highlighting-socialists-burglarizing-america/ | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.schlockmercenary.com/assets/resized/im g/3779149-no+you+move+cap+says-0-800-0-565.jpg This was a link in a review of Captain America, Civil War. By a great comic writer. But the sentiment is timeless. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/08/p olitical_correctness_tool_of_totalitarianism.html | ||
| Sifo |
 ‘Idiots’: NC gun shop billboard mocks AOC and three other liberal congresswomen | ||
| Sifo |
This is the kind of crap that just pisses me off. Some activists are hell bent on "preserving" a building they have zero claim to, in the process, destroying the value to the owner. If they want it preserved that badly, they should have to pony up the bucks to buy it. Then, and only then should they have the right to control what is done with it. Neighborhood Activists Would Rather Preserve Tom's Diner Than Let Its Owner Retire in Peace | ||
| Aesquire |
A local neighborhood theater had gone from showing movies, ( I saw Marooned there ) to a porn theater, to a porn store when VHS tapes replaced going to a theater to watch porn, and then the owner tried to sell the money losing property to a drugstore chain. Oh, no! The theater was a historic shrine for people that hadn't walked through the doors or spent a penny out of pocket there for 30 years. Forbidden to sell bongs, even had the bong store that rented the storefront inventory stolen by the police, in a weaponized local Justice system that targeted political enemies of the Mayor, ( or those who refused to buy "insurance" aka bribe the Mayor and relatives ) But let other bong stores prosper. ( albeit with a hidden tax raising the prices vs. stores that got raided/robbed by the police ) Forbidden to sell, the Theater owner fought back by painting the ancient brick building garish bright colors. Red store front & stark black trim, lime green sides, etc. In the end, the City bought the property, spent the cost of a battle cruiser to have relatives of the Mayor sandblast the bricks & restore it to it's ancient glory in the outside, then discovered no one wanted to rent store vo!ume with a sloping floor ( which the porn & bong customers considered funny ) and... Sold the property to be torn down and a drugstore chain and parking lot take over the block. The difference being who got rich, ( the Mayor & his relatives, instead of the original owner ) and a few million wasted taxpayer's money. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/08/w hen_the_left_snatches_our_kids.html https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/08/u nlearners_and_the_left.html From Kindergarten to $50,000 a year Oh-so Liberal Arts colleges, the brainwashing is pervasive. With Commie Core, the children are openly encouraged to inform on their parents & lie to them about what is taught, field trips, being used as props in political protests against civil rights. There's a generation eager to vote for AOC and the banning of your motor vehicles, who never want to own a cool car, or bother to learn to drive. ( after all, they have Uber, and why save money & work hard to buy a pollution machine? They see no value in freedom of movement. ) They're going to be in charge by the time you're too old to keep around. Remember Obama care includes killing the Old Parasites as they use most of the health insurance money in their final, unproductive, useless, years. Shooter and D.S. both came out around 2016. Their scripts give the distinct impression of trying to prepare America to expect a coup attempt by the right, either during or after that year's election. In real life the Left attempted the coup, but in a movie, you usually see what you expect to see. In these three series, lefties will swoon at the heroes overcoming (or sneering at) the Evil Right. We in the center and to the right just see leftist propaganda, presented more skillfully and entertainingly than usual but just as surely there in these series-long Democrat explanations. https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/08/t v_shows_as_democrat_explanations.html It really is a War on Culture. | ||
| Aesquire |
I'd like to point out the fall of the Scion car brand. The unique new marketing idea was simple. No variant builds at the factory, one trim level, affordable prices, good value, aimed at young & first time car buyers. To keep the dealers profitable, a shiny selection of dealer installed trim, suspension and premium shifter goodies. With big displays! Even, as a last gasp, a factory track day car built in partnership with Subaru, that had a hatch back exactly sized for 4 mounted performance tires and a floor jack, to facilitate going to the track. Affordable performance toy! Sexy styling! Gutless engine to keep the mandated Corporate Average Fuel Economy numbers, but the Aftermarket would offer power! Installed by the Dealer, of course. Great ideas. And the car history buffs will recognize the Ford Model T cost savings by having just one choice of factory trim. Surely value performance and Dealer bling was the perfect Youth entry level sale! Except It was an older, much older, demographic buying them. Fewer 20 somethings drive. Those that do, don't know or care about DOHC or # valves per cylinder. Torque? What's that? What's important is the touch screen display and how well it works with their $700 phone. Given a choice between lateral Gs & Bluetooth..... No one goes for Sunday drives, they are busy, head down, "talking" to their internet friends they will never see in person. It's funny. My parents despaired at my priorities as I grew up. My music, how saving for a house meant nothing, but I was driving a van ( why an ugly work truck & not a practical car? ) all over Creation to fly kites? ( I had a queen sized bed to replace their back seat at the Drive in Movie & I preferred soaring or skiing to gardening ) For me, it was Vans, Motorcycles, and flying machines. But I freely admit I was considered fringe weirdo at the time, and that never changed. Now you take the high school and college age kids to dinner and they never look up from their phones, except to take a picture of their food, to send to everyone. Half can't drive. ( by their age there wasn't anything I couldn't, from canoes to aerobatic planes ) And they vehemently insist they can multi task & carry on a meaningful conversation in three different formats.....  | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/08/where _are_the_democrats_china_shows_what_real_repressio n_of_muslims_looks_like_with_orders_to_shops_to_ta ke_down_signs.html I just assume the Democrat Socialist Party is going Maoist. They can't wait to copy the reeducation camps and Social Credit system. But I'm biased. I like freedom. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/08/anoth er_ungrateful_migrant_creates_a_new_narrative_for_ ingratitude.html Gee, I thought I could go off on a subject. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/08/turmo il_aocs_chief_of_staff_and_spokesman_both_leaving_ her_congressional_office.html I'm predicting this is somewhat a fake. A shot at avoiding investigation and prison. We'll see. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14643/france-si nking-chaos No more free speech in France. Unless you are... Will we follow this trend? Certainly, as soon as the Antifa Party takes power, plus a few months to shoot protesters. | ||
| Aesquire |
http://fakenous.net/?p=653&fbclid=IwAR2w-ug1HvlW8A ECO6zWh-Y5FqyXs09dvwuniNRdCuZK7f4zWRFYJ_WZCBM Social Justice is not. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/08/sto p-at-zero.php Imho, these people are just using the environment as an excuse to be selfish. I have no problem with that, wanting fools to not reproduce anyway. The moral problem will come when the Greenies want to limit reproduction by force. Any day now. | ||
| Sifo |
Extremism in America; over-hyped hobgoblin, or a real threat? | ||
| Aesquire |
name redactedstory will quickly disappear from the MSM, because, except for being white, he checks none of the boxes that would make him useful to the leftist agenda. Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/08/c ould_the_incel_community_be_propelling_mass_shoote rs.html#ixzz5vu5JwBjf INCEL? High School me was socially awkward, overweight, shy, and didn't get laid. ( I suspect I was in the majority in 1974, at least in the actually having sex with others part ) Was this frustrating? Do you really remember High School? I find few adults can comprehend their teen selves. Most seem to have substituted tv sit coms for their past. I won't even get into the poor souls that peaked in High School. The football stars who married their Cheerleader sweetheart and now sell used cars with the fat nagging wife. ( an unfair cliche that oddly resonates with the INCEL pathology ) But for those who do remember, and were never popular, that age was maddening. Social cliques, jocks, geeks, nerds, ( we had our own movie! It was wish fulfillment fantasy ) adolescence, hormones, insanely useless classes, gym locker room horror, and pools for which teachers were secretly meeting in the mimeo room. College was more pressure but most Americans agree that a few years maturing and the greater freedom made them the "best years" of their youth. It never occurred to me to join the women haters club. I knew I wasn't getting dates because I was too shy, and had poor self image. For me, personally, it was a combination of serious hobbies and the realization that "desperately trying to get laid" was chick repellent. That, & I lost some fat & put on muscle by pursuing super nerd, but physical hobbies. Hauling a hang glider up the training hill 100 times equals wrestling a 70 pound log on my shoulders but with the wind trying to pound you into the ground or tear it out of your grasp, depending on what exact angle you hold it in variable vector conditions. My favorite summer job....ever....as a lifeguard at a college pool taught me a higher level of responsibility, why lifeguards are lean, ( miles of laps every day ) and the wonderful exposure to a constant stream of women in bathing suits. Yeah, college was a great experience for me, and as desperation faded under improving self image, relationships got possible. Never easy, but not taken for granted, either. So is the cure for angry virgins hang gliding? Honestly, yes & no. My girlfriend was one of a very few females to participate, and thus it's not a target rich environment. The self esteem from actual accomplishment don't suck. Then, Lifeguard? Does the local pool offer the magical cure for lonely, twisted mass shooters? Yes! But. very limited number of jobs. The difference between high school frustration and college wonder was internal, not a few pounds. I'm solidly convinced it was losing the desperation pheromones ( or some other sign detectable by women, and to be fair, some men ) that changed my luck. Or...just losing enough shyness, barely, to ask someone out. Satan knows what kind of life I'd have if there were internet chat rooms full of self reinforcing pathological insanity when I was in High School. Not to draw any parallels to this fine niche motorcycle interest site, or a stamp collection forum. There may be preaching to the choir, and group think, ( Buells rock! And the time spent wrenching makes motorcycling sweeter. ) but never hate for the self imposed unattainable. | ||
| Ratbuell |
Patrick - that's because your experiences are those of a "normal" male in society. Key phrase - IN SOCIETY. And THAT, I think, is the ultimate root of all these problems - there IS no "society" anymore, only this multitude of microcosms and chat rooms and self-fulfilling self-hate groups. There is no drive to be 'better', no drive to 'try harder', to 'improve'. Just..."you are what you are, and that's how it's going to stay, and boy does that suck". I still hate quotas - the idea that someone should get special consideration based on their gender and/or race, as opposed to their actual abilities - and I truly believe they are a HUGE contributing factor to stuff like this. If you can't be expected to excel in "normal" things like job capability, writing skills, or overall usefulness...how can you be expected to "try harder" when it comes to...well...ANYTHING?? For those of us who understand that "work harder = net better results"...this is a non-issue. But...people just aren't wired that way anymore. We're short-circuiting our own young, and this is what we get for it. | ||
| Sifo |
Democrats just purged white party staffers, and it's a bigger deal than anyone wants to admit DAMN! How do these retards not realize that firing someone for their skin color is just flat out racism! It's wrong as a matter of principle, not as a matter of the color of the target. How is it that none of the Dems stands up and says "This is wrong"? I've become completely convinced that even if you catch them doing the right thing, it will be done for the wrong reasons. As a party, they are just as racist as the heydays of the KKK. They really have learned nothing. Sad. | ||
| Ratbuell |
It's OK if you do it to white people. "Reparations". We deserve it. \sarc  ff |
