An awful sudden thing. If you all could be so kind,  go over his blog and offer a couple of words, I’d appreciate it.

I am not into the decorative/themed guns, but I was a kid who was a fan of the Apollo program, this here is a thing of sheer beauty.

UPDATE: A reader who wants to remain anonymous has more info on the rifle and another photo:

That rifle was produced for the Huntsville Friends of the NRA annual dinner in 2019.  It was to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Moon landing.

The rifle was a project designed and implemented by a small team of engineers, industrial designers, machinists, and technicians in Remington’s R&D facility in Huntsville, Alabama.

The rifle is a Bushmaster XM-15 A3 with a 20 inch barrel, manufactured at Remington’s production facility in Huntsville.

The launchpad and gantry were designed and 3-D printed by Remington R&D, so was the engraving and Cerakote painting of the rifle.

This was a beloved project that really brought the team together to do something they were very proud of.

Additional pictures could be found here at the Huntsville Friends of the NRA Facebook page.

Or rather NOT doing.

ORLANDO, Fla. – One day after Florida’s governor issued an executive order stating that passengers who fly from New York to the Sunshine State amid the coronavirus pandemic must undergo a mandatory quarantine, there appeared to be a lack of enforcement.

Most of Tuesday — from morning into early afternoon — passengers arriving from New York to Orlando International Airport gates just walked off the plane without any screening.

Passengers arriving from New York’s LaGuardia Airport on a Frontier flight Tuesday said an airline representative met the flight, announced the governor had ordered a mandatory quarantine for all passengers, handed passengers a four-page packet from the Florida Department of Health asking for contact information and then allowed passengers to walk off the plane and out of the airport.

No screening, no enforcement of quarantine at Orlando International Airport, passengers say

It had to be House of the Mouse County. I believe the biggest concentration of idiots outside Pasco in in Orange county and Pasco has the excuse of having too much meth flowing the streets. Why is the order of the governor being ignored? Is it plain stupidity of there is a political interest in Florida being infected. Sorry for the Tin Foil Hat, but this inaction smells like partisan crap.

Do pray we don’t get hit by a hurricane this year.  We are but a month away from the beginning of the season.

Hat Tip MiniMe.

Ford announced today that it is partnering with 3M in order to manufacture powered air-purifying respirators (PAPRs) as part of its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. These respirators are often called positive-pressure masks as they take contaminated air, pull it through a filter, then push it to the sealed mask using an air blower.

Ford will assist by providing components from their parts bin to build the respirators. The design released by Ford (top) will use 3M filters that draw air into a blower motor sourced from an F-150 and then pushed through a tube up to a mask that is sealed to the user’s face.
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The great thing about using off-the-shelf parts is that most of the pieces needed to assemble these respirators are available in fairly large quantities. The seat blower motors can be pulled off the shelf by Ford and they can request more from their suppliers if needed. The drill battery packs use a standard interface and are available from the original equipment manufacturers as well as many aftermarket sources.

How Ford Is Using Seat Ventilation Fans to Build Thousands of Respirators

IO can almost see the technically purist in the medical field cringe with horror. But as we are fond to say: “If it looks stupid but works, it ain’t stupid.”

Kudos to Ford and the redneck engineers that came up with this.

Hat Tip Scott M.

Things just got real: Waffle House closes 365 locations across US

RUN!

As J. Kb. wrote:

Do you know what will happen the day after the mint mints two trillion dollar coins?

Toilet paper goes up to $10 a roll and stays there.  Milk is $15 a gallon instead of $1.5 a gallon, and it will cost $400 to fill up my tank.

Just as Venezuelans how much they love their fourteen-million Bolivar chickens?

The Squad apparently all studied economics abroad in Zimbabwe

Going through a purse of mom’s recently, I found this:

That is 90 Bolivares. In the heyday of booming oil income, it was the equivalent of $20.93. Right now? Go in your pocket or spare change jar and pull out a penny. Now look at the date and look at one of the digits. Do you see the fraction of the space it covers? That is the equivalent of the bills above today.

The value of the paper of this bills is worth more than the currency. The government switched to a cheaper paper  a while back because it was idiotic even under The Squad/Socialism guidelines to print currency at such a loss. And yes, the paper has minimal or no security features, but who is going to counterfeit Venezuelan Bolivares?

The Squad never fails to impress by demonstrating new levels of economic ignorance.

First AOC:

.@AOC "And it's actually a fascinating progressive moment, because what it's shown is that all of these issues have never been about how are you going to pay for it. It's never been about whether we have the capacity to do these things or if the logistics have worked out… pic.twitter.com/kkXaIbn2hq

— People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) March 22, 2020

Her takeaway from a one-time bailout intended to help alleviate the pain of the government shutting down the economy by telling at least half of working Americans that they are non-essential and can’t go to work is that all this time we had the money to fund every cradle to grave Progressive handout they ever dreamed up, and the only reason we don’t is that the Republicans are just mean people who want others to suffer.

The only reason I am pro-bailout of any kind is that the current economic problem is one created by the government.  When the government tells you to shutter your business for something that is not your fault, they should pay you for it.

Eminent domain says the government cannot seize your property without just compensation.  Call a forced quarantine a temporary seizure.  They are temporarily taking control of your property and limiting what you can do with it.

The homeless crisis in New York isn’t caused by the New York City government forcing businesses to close because of quarantine, and the federal government shouldn’t be on the hook to take care of New York City’s vagrants, many of whom just want to be vagrants.

But I guess for AOC, if the government is in for a penny it’s in for a pound.  A $1.8 Trillion bailout or a $34 Trillion Green New Deal, what’s the difference?

Next, we turn to Rashida “Blood Libel” Talib:

Tlaib proposes minting two $1 trillion platinum coins to finance monthly coronavirus debit cards

What?

Rep. Rashida Tlaib has proposed sending everyone in the United States $1,000 per month to counter the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Michigan Democrat’s plan would be financed by having the Federal Reserve create new money on behalf of the Treasury. To skirt the federal debt limit, the U.S. Mint would create two $1 trillion coins, and the Treasury would deposit them in its account at the Fed.

Under Tlaib’s proposal, everyone in the U.S., including illegal immigrants, would receive a $2,000 debit card immediately, either through the mail or by having a dedicated government corps seek them out. Families would receive that amount for each family member. The cards would then be refilled with $1,000 monthly until one year after the end of the crisis.

This is straight out of the Zimbabwean economic textbook.

Do you know what will happen the day after the mint mints two trillion dollar coins?

Toilet paper goes up to $10 a roll and stays there.  Milk is $15 a gallon instead of $1.5 a gallon, and it will cost $400 to fill up my tank.

Just as Venezuelans how much they love their fourteen-million Bolivar chickens?

Maybe she can look up what happened in Weimar Germany where it was cheaper to light a stove with marks than to buy matches with them.

Also, giving $1,000 per month to illegals with no border security (Tlaib is pro-open borders) would bankrupt America overnight as everyone came to the US for free money.

Lastly, we have Ilhan “it’s all the fault of the JOOOOS” Omar.

Any rescue package must:

1) Cancel student debt
2) Fund losses for small businesses and local governments
3) Ban evictions and foreclosures
4) Ban stock buybacks and executive bonuses

We need a groundswell of support for these critical measures!

Call your Rep: (202) 224-3121 https://t.co/3OCo9LbSsk

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) March 24, 2020

Instead of minting two trillion in coins, she wants to pay off just shy of two trillion in debt.

I’m not sure what student loan debt has to do with the Coronavirus but she wants to pay it off.

Then there is the banning of evictions and foreclosures.  For how long?  Just for the month that the government shut down our economy or forever?

What will that do to the housing market?  How many people will just say “fuck it” and not pay the way they did back in 2008 when people found themselves upside down on their mortgages and decided not to pay.

I can’t think of anything that will drag us out of our economic downturn like a housing market crash to dwarf the one twelve years ago.

At this point, all I can assume is that this is malicious.  They have to know that what they want will irrevocably destroy the American economy.