After months and years of posts about massive failures of various kinds… here’s a video about an attempt at a long-distance car jump. Guess how it turns out.
Three magazine advertisements from 1960, depicting the East German Type 152 jetliner (which would have been a *fantastic* jetliner in the late 1940’s), the Convair F-106 and the Fiat G91 T jet trainer. The full-rez scans of these ads have been uploaded into the 2022-10 APR Extras folder on Dropbox, available to all $4…
Stacey Abrams, failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate trying again, has an interesting solution to the economic crisis: kill the children. They cost money, you see. If you didn’t have your kids, you could better afford gas and food and rent and such. Says so at about 4:23: This is the person that the knavish…
So some European protestors – never mind what they’re protesting or why, because it hardly matters – decided that the thing to do was glue themselves to the floor of a VW dealership in Germany. The dealerships response? Close the doors, turn off the lights, turn off the furnace. https://twitter.com/GGrimalda/status/1582818342506987521 That’s a good response. I…
Seems unlikely, but… Deranged Putin has ALREADY tried to detonate nuclear bomb but was scuppered in last-minute ‘sabotage’, insider claims The article seems distinctly lean on actual details and evidence. Claim is made that *two* attempts to test nuclear weapons – including an underwater test in the Barents Sea – were aborted due to emergencies…
Liz Truss resigns as UK prime minister Just a thought: Britain voted for Brexit largely on the promise of getting immigration under control. But since Brexit, Britain seems to have done nothing towards getting immigration under control. How about trying to get immigration under control?
Dramatic Scene as Jakarta Mosque’s Dome Collapses in Fire Looks like it was a sizable structure. Apparently being repaired when it caught fire. Notre Dame and the Big Butter Jesus feel yer pain, fellers.
Ronald Reagan chats with a Nazi in “Desperate Journey:” The dialog from IMDB: [Major Otto Baumeister has told the captured crew that, since they know the location of an underground Messerschmitt underground factory, they will feel his iron fist. Now he separates Flying Officer Johnny Hammond from the rest, questioning him for intelligence] …
From the long irrelevant ACLU, dated June 11, 2020: Defunding the Police Will Actually Make Us Safer So how’s that going? Let’s check in with CNN (September 25, 2022): Once nicknamed ‘Murderapolis,’ the city that became the center of the ‘Defund the Police’ movement is grappling with heightened violent crime Shocking. Who, I ask you,…
Ukrainian police use AK-47s (or maybe AK-74s, I can’t tell) to try to take out Russian anti-civilian buzz bombs. The *claim* is that they shot one down, but that’s hard to determine form the footage… it could well be that the thing just crashed where it did because that’s where it was aimed. They really…
