Hollywood can’t help itself. But what can you expect from people who hate America almost as much as the terrorists portrayed in the series.

I watched the first episode last night (don’t tell the missus. We are supposed to binge this weekend) and production values-wise is great. I will reserve final verdict for the series after I am done watching. I am old school Clancy fan and it usually takes me a while to separate the movies from the books. This time I am aware that I have to treat the characters as namesakes rather than the ones Clancy wove yarn years ago.

Now, if we could get somebody to faithfully produce some Mitch Rapp stuff, I’d be a happy man.

J. Kb. said all that needed to be said regarding that piece of crap movie. I am going t guide you to dust your DVD player and buy the great mini series From the Earth to the Moon. (I don’t see it being offered in streaming service)

This is worth your binging time. Produce by Tom Hanks and yes, you can expect Band of Brothers and The Pacific quality in this miniseries.

Quoting from IMDB:

 The twelve episodes follow the Apollo space program from a variety of viewpoints: (1) “Can We Do This?” maps the origins of Apollo and its Mercury and Gemini roots; (2) “Apollo 1” tells of the tragic fire and the subsequent finger-pointing; (3) “We Have Cleared the Tower” portrays the intense preparation for Apollo 7; (4) “1968” puts Apollo 8 into its historical context against events of the era; (5) “Spider” shows the engineering POV through the design, building, and testing of the LEMs with Apollos 9 and 10, (6) “Mare Tranquilitatis” shows the deeper considerations behind the historic Apollo 11 lunar landing; (7) “That’s All There Is” portrays the camaraderie of the Apollo 12 crew; (8) “We Interrupt This Program” shows a by-now-indifferent media galvanized by the events of Apollo 13; (9) “For Miles and Miles” tells of Alan Shepherd’s return to the manned program with Apollo 14 after being grounded between Mercury and Gemini; (10) “Galileo Was Right” show the non-piloting demands on the Apollo 15 astronauts as they train in lunar field geology; (11) “The Original Wives Club” gives the female POV through the wives of the New Nine; and (12) “La Voyage Dans La Lune” brings things full circle by contrasting Georges Méliès’s vision and drive in creating his 1902 film with Apollo 17 and the Apollo program’s close.

Fuck Canada.

Hollywood finally went over the cliff.

In an upcoming biopic about Neil Armstrong, Hollywood has rewritten and memory holed one of top ten greatest achievements in American history.

Neil Armstrong movie ‘First Man’ omits the American flag being planted on the moon, and star Ryan Gosling defended the decision

What. The. Fuck?

How?  Why?

The movie omits the American flag being planted on the moon, and the movie’s star Ryan Gosling, who plays Armstrong, defended the decision when asked about it at Venice (via The Telegraph).

Gosling, who is Canadian, argued that the first voyage to the moon was a “human achievement” that didn’t just represent an American accomplishment, and that’s how Armstrong viewed it.

If the SJW’s can shut down a movie with Scarlett Johansson because she’s not trans and playing a trans-man, we sure as shit can shut down this Woke turd for being a damned Canadian playing an American hero.

“I think this was widely regarded in the end as a human achievement [and] that’s how we chose to view it,” Gosling. “I also think Neil was extremely humble, as were many of these astronauts, and time and time again he deferred the focus from himself to the 400,000 people who made the mission possible.”

Yeah, it is a human achievement.  Sure.  But it was also the Cold War and we had just been out done by the Soviets with Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin and we sure as shit not going to be beat to the moon.

There is a reason it was called the space race, and WE WON THE MOON LANDING!

Gosling added, “He was reminding everyone that he was just the tip of the iceberg — and that’s not just to be humble, that’s also true. So I don’t think that Neil viewed himself as an American hero. From my interviews with his family and people that knew him, it was quite the opposite. And we wanted the film to reflect Neil.”

Oh hell yes he did consider himself an American hero.  This was all about America.  He didn’t plant the UN flag up on the moon.  He planted the American flag for a reason.  This was our victory.

Gosling also joked that he’s Canadian, so he “might have cognitive bias.”

Forget Mexico for a little bit, Trump needs to take five and deal with Canada.  We’re not going to stand for a bunch of Canucks rewriting our history.  That’s bullshit.

Gosling can try and make this sound nice… “we wanted this to be for the world.”

That’s a lie.  This is Hollywood reflexively hating anything unabashedly patriotic.  That’s what the moon landing is.  It was an act of American greatness.  It was entirely peaceful.  This wasn’t a victory in war.  It didn’t come at the cost of oppression.  It wasn’t something partisan or sectarian.  It was Americans coming together to engage in one of the greatest achievements in science and engineering in human history to cement America’s place among the stars.

Hollywood can’t find anything to “deconstruct” in that story, so just obliterated America from it.  It could have been anybody who first set foot on the moon, why are we so special?

Because we’re Americans and our President challenged us to do it.

I’ll tell you this.  I’m not going to watch a movie where a Canadian downplays a great American hero and fails to plant the American flag on the moon.  I’m pretty sure that most of Huntsville, home to Marshall Space Flight Center, won’t be seeing that crap either.

This movie is going to crash and burn like Soyuz 1.

I remember when Buzz Aldrin punched some asshole for saying he didn’t land on the moon.  I hope they invite Buzz to the American premier of this movie just so he can punch Ryan Gosling in his pretty Canadian face.

Since Hollywood won’t show you this great American Achievement, I will, fully restored by NASA.

Update:

It seems like the great Chuck Yeager (whose accomplishment is also in my pantheon of greatest achievements in American history*) agrees that this woke turd isn’t accurate.

That's not the Neil Armstrong I knew

— Chuck Yeager (@GenChuckYeager) August 31, 2018

More Hollywood make-believe

— Chuck Yeager (@GenChuckYeager) August 31, 2018

I’m glad Hollywood spent all that money to make this flop.

*If you are curious as to what I consider in my pantheon:

• Signing The Declaration of Independence
• Drafting the Constitution and Bill of Rights
• The Transcontinental Railroad
• Polio Vaccine
• Building of the Home Insurance Building in Chicago
• Splitting the atom/Trinity test
• Breaking the sound barrier
• Moon landing
• Invention of the transistor
• ARPANET goes online

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During the protest on ICE in Portland, that ended up as just a bunch of Leftists squatting in squalor outside a Federal building, the Portland Police refused to provide assistance to ICE officers who had to deal with more unruly activists.  This isn’t surprising as the Portland mayor is part of the Abolish ICE crowd and abetted the ICE protests.

During the Cuomo/Nixon debate for Governor of New York, Emperor Andrew Cuomo said this:

New York is wasting state money to sue ICE.

Arizona Congressman Ruben Gallego posted this on Twitter:

If you are a US government official and you are deporting Americans be warned. When the worm turns you will not be safe because you were just following orders. You do not have to take part in illegal acts ordered by this President's administration. https://t.co/BLq48HRkbH

— Ruben Gallego (@RubenGallego) August 30, 2018

I will be the first one to say, the Nuremberg Defense (“I was just following orders”) is not a defense.  Frankly, I consider it an admission of guilt.  But as of yet I’m still not sure what illegal orders ICE has been given.  Furthermore, separating children from the adults that brought them to to border (not all are parents) for no longer than 14 days is not the Holocaust.  It’s not even FDR’s internment of the Japanese.  They are not morally tantamount, unless you believe that no person who is suspected of breaking the law should be arrested, detained, and separated from their children while in jail.

The wording “When the worm turns you will not be safe because you were just following orders” sounds suspiciously like a threat of political retribution.

More recently, Florida Gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Gillum has announced his desire to abolish ICE – remember, he’s running for Governor, not Congress, he would have no ability to change Federal law unless he got to appoint a Senator – and replace it with the Department of Justice, which has been siding against Trump since some time in 2015.

So when mayors, governors, and Representatives actively undermine the enforcement of Federal law and support attacks, legal or otherwise, on Federal law enforcement, at what point does it become an insurrection by the states?

What happens if (when) New York State Police or the NYPD arrest ICE agents who are carrying out a lawful arrest and charge them with violating state law?

Keep in mind, this is nothing new.

Once again, Democrats are resisting the Federal goverment so they can maintain slaves an ethnically distinguishable base of low cost labor.

I am sure the family of the deceased finds the news somewhat important.

Ladies an gentlemen, allow me to introduce you to the dumbest thing I have ever seen in the history of tacticool.

This is the new Glock barrel made by Killer Innovations.

Because why not?

First of all, why is the company called Killer Innovations?  Probably because the guy who came up with the idea was a tacticool dumbass.

Now said dumbass was let loose on a piece of bar stock with a CNC and this is the result.

Why am I picking on Killer Industries barrel?

Exhibit 1:

Do you see the sharp corner on that machined cut indicated with the red arrow.  Well, there are four of them on the barrel.  A top and bottom on each side.

In engineering, you lean about something called a stress riser.  When you have a sharp corner, that concentrates the stress at the tip of the corner.  Rounded edged and fillets reduce these risers.

Understanding these risers is critical in the design of fatigue resistant components.

A very famous example of this is the de Havilland Comet.  Originally made with square windows, fatigue cracks formed at the window corners and a few Comets broke up in flight.  That is why all planes have round windows.

So a gun barrel is a round tube subject to a very dynamic hoop stress, upwards of 70,000 psi of hoop stress and some dumbass puts four long stress risers in the long axis of the tube.  Not just that, but right at the area of peak pressure just ahead of the chamber.

A Glock barrel is not that thick to begin with, only about 0.09 inches nominal.  Those cuts look pretty deep.  What is the nominal thickness in those areas?  I’m guessing 0.06 inches, maybe.

How much weight are they really taking out with lightning cuts versus how much are they reducing the hoop strength of the barrel by?

But that’s not all.

Exhibit 2:

That is a lightning cut through the chamber.  Not just the chamber but the barrel hood is the locking surface that keeps the gun closed under firing.  Now the right side has been machined away.  That is going to create an uneven stress distribution in the locking surface meaning that one side is going to peen back faster than the other.

But we’re still not done.

Exhibit 3:

From the description of the barrel.

VELOCITY ARMS HAS DEVELOPED WHAT WE BELIEVE TO BE THE MOST ACCURATE PISTOL BORE MANUFACTURING PROCESS EVER CREATED. S.P.T. STANDS FOR SINGLE PROCESS TECHNOLOGY AND SINGLE POINT TECHNOLOGY. SINGLE PROCESS TECHNOLOGY MEANS THE BORE, RIFLING, AND CHAMBER ARE CUT IN ONE HIGH PRECISION MACHINE WITHOUT HUMAN INTERFERENCE.

SINGLE POINT TECHNOLOGY MEANS THE RIFLING IS CUT USING THE LEGENDARY AND PAINSTAKING SINGLE POINT CUTTING TECHNIQUE. THIS SINGLE POINT CUT RIFLING PROCESS REQUIRES A SINGLE CUTTER TO MAKE 120 INDIVIDUAL CUTS TO ACCURATELY RIFLE EACH BORE. SINGLE POINT CUTTING YIELDS IDENTICAL GROOVES THAT HAVE LESS THAN .0001” DEVIATION BETWEEN EACH OTHER BECAUSE THEY ARE BEING CUT WITH THE EXACT SAME CUTTER.

Wow, so they went all the way back in time and are cutting the rifling one groove at a time, one pass at a time.

Do you have any idea how insane it is to have a 120 step machining process anymore?

I know what some of you are thinking.  “But J.Kb single cut rifling is still done and is extremely accurate.”

Yes it is.  And if you are buying a rifle named Anschutz because you are going to win an Olympic Gold Medal with it, and it costs as much as your car, I’d say “go ahead and buy it.”

If you are buying a Krieger barrel to take home a medal in bench rest, you are spending your money well.

However, if you are buying a drop in barrel for your Glock, which has a frame to slide fit tolerance of “it rattles when you shake it,” than you are pissing your money away.

It’s like dropping a super tuned SVT crate engine into a stock Ford Focus.  You aren’t going to get an 8 second quarter mile with everything else on the car still sucking.

So Killer Industries is selling you a barrel that is a stress analysis nightmare, that looked at 100 year of understanding about fatigue fracture and said “yeah, fuck that,” that doesn’t feel the need to have a solid locking surface, and is made using the single most complicated manufacturing process possible.  All to save you, maybe 2 oz of weight and cut your group size from 3 inches to 2 inches at 15 yards.

And it’s going to cost you… they don’t even have the price listed on the website.  That’s not a good sign.

Still, a sucker is born ever minute and they are going to sell a lot of these.

I just like my hands enough to never want to shoot it.