The Pelosi Gun Control Bill sailed through Congress as I expected, but I am embarrassed to say that three fucking Florida Traitors  switched sides and ended up lapping Pelosi’s feet and possibly other parts of her anatomy.

First at bat was Vern Buchanan, representing Florida’s 16th congressional district. What the fuck is this guy thinking? I drove through his district twice in the last 5 months attending the Southwest Blog Shoot and that areas id 100% Trump Country, Republican Red through and through. Why is this asshole placing his thin lips in a suction action on the Democrat’s asses?

Next we have Maria Elvira Salazar proving once more that a tiger will not lose her strips even when she changes her label. She represents Florida’s 27th congressional district Which covers Miami Beacjh, Kendall and small parts of Hialeah. She worked for CNN so that is all the info you need to know. I guess that interview with Fidel Castro left her firmly convinced of the joys and hopes of Socialism. She knew she could not be elected it as Democrat, so she ran as RINO on the back of Trump and people bought it.

The third anal-sucking asshole is Carlos Gimenez representing Florida’s 26th congressional district A.K.A. The Florida Keys. Can you believe that asshole actually was born in Cuba before Castro took over? He has no excuse to say he did not know how bad Socialism is and how Gun Control helps the cause of the “Revolucion”. But the Keys are the Florida Man of Florida in case you did not know it. And I know I am going to incur in the ire of buddies that live it and love it there, but you people live in the equivalent of a small speed bump in Hurricane Highway so y’all are not right in the head.

As a Floridian I want to apologize to the rest of the Nation and the Gun Community for these three traidores de mierda. If it were up to me, they would be already on their way to Venezuela to enjoy the best of the garbage cuisine and the abject fear of unarmed living in one of the most dangerous countries in the world.

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From the people who brought you “15 days to slow the spread for more than a year” and the sequel “the troops will be in DC for the inauguration until the Fall or maybe longer until the the threat dissipates” comes “enhanced background checks are just common sense.” Another exiting chapter in bait-and-switch goal post moving against your civil liberties. Coming this Spring.

From Military Times:

Trust in the military is dropping significantly, new survey suggests

Trust in the U.S. military has decreased significantly in recent years, but armed forces still remain among the most respected institutions in the country, according to a new public opinion poll released by the Ronald Reagan Institute this week.

About 56 percent of Americans surveyed said they have “a great deal of trust and confidence” in the military, down from 70 percent in 2018. The poll includes views of more than 2,500 individuals who were asked questions in early February 2021.

“To see this drop is quite a concern,” said Roger Zakheim, Washington director of the institute. “This is not just the events of the past 12 months. We’re seeing this trend now.”

“There has been a rising concern over domestic division and political violence in the United States and for a number of years now,” Zakheim said. “We see in this poll that Americans are experiencing a sense of pessimism in almost every question [regarding] confidence or trust or reliance on allies. The numbers are generally ticking down.”

The numbers will continue to drop because the Democrats need them to drop.

People generally don’t fear what they trust.

To get people to obey the military giving unconstitutional orders they must fear the military which means they can’t trust the military.

Undermining the trust leads to fear and fear leads to compliance.

The constant goal post moving of when the troops will be pulled from DC undermines the trust.

Giving the military law enforcement powers in federal districts or on federal property will further undermine the trust, so expect to see that next.

Making the military a partisan organization also undermines the trust.

This loss in trust is a desired feature, expect it to continue.

Jamie Mitchell is an award-winning Canadian math teacher.

He recently was involved in a Twitter spat over an old Tweet of his.

It's not just idiots. It's well-funded activist idiots with an agenda. Aufhebung der Kultur. "Decentering whiteness," "decentering the Western world," "decolonizing the curriculum." All abolishing the culture for a neo-Marxian "sublation" into "liberation." pic.twitter.com/3ayTmgq6tW

— James Lindsay, full varsity (@ConceptualJames) March 10, 2021

Zero that I'm aware of.
But I can look at my two apples and your two apples, imagine planting the seeds from those two apples, and growing a five new apple trees.

— Jamie Mitchell (@realJ_Mitchell) March 10, 2021

People used to argue about the existence of "zero".
I think it's important to teach students that there are other ways to look at the world, outside of the the non-negotiated norms of the system we live in.
In certain arrangements 2 boxes plus 2 boxes can equal 5 boxes. pic.twitter.com/7GaWJZwGHk

— Jamie Mitchell (@realJ_Mitchell) March 10, 2021

This is not wise or creative thinking.  This is wrong.  And what is worse it is wrong masquerading as clever.

The point is to make the wrong answer seem smart instead of stupid.

The problem, and this is purposeful, is to destroy the idea of math as an absolute science.

2+2=4 only for white supremacists who believe in very strict linear thinking

2+2=5 for Progressives who have the wisdom and clarity to see beyond very strict linear thinking.

What young child doesn’t want to be praised as being wise, open-minded, and clever?

Except that 2+2 must equal 4 and must always equal 4.  The fundamental rules of math are the basis of all rational empirical derived knowlege.

It’s no coincidence that Venn diagram of people who say “2+2=5” and “men can get pregnant and women can have penises” is nearly a perfect circle.

The point is to be able to create a society in which the people are utterly unable to come to conclusions based on empirical reality.

George Orwell put it best:

In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy.

This went from being dystopian fiction to actual award-winning education promoted by teachers.

This is the endarkenment.

The Air Force Is Having To Reverse Engineer Parts Of Its Own Stealth Bomber

In a surprising turn of events, the United States government is calling upon its country’s industry to reverse engineer components for the Air Force’s B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. An official call for this highly unusual kind of assistance was put out today on the U.S. government’s contracting website beta.SAM.gov.

Mark Thompson, a national-security analyst at the Project On Government Oversight, brought our attention to the notice, which seeks an engineering effort that will reverse engineer key parts for the B‐2’s Load Heat Exchangers. While it is not exactly clear what part of the aircraft’s many complex and exotic subsystems these heat exchangers relate to, the bomber has no shortage of avionics systems, for example, which could require cooling.

While it’s hard to say exactly why this approach is being taken now, it indicates that the original plans for these components are unavailable or the manufacturing processes and tooling used to produce them no longer exists. This could be the result of them having been so secretive that, at some point, they were inadvertently destroyed altogether. They could also have been simply misplaced, or the parts may have been produced by a smaller contractor that has long since disappeared, taking the bespoke tooling with it.

Juxtapose that with this video from Northrop Grumman:

Early versions of CAD that are not supported anymore.  Design schematics printed on actual paper.  I suspect that a lot of that material was filed away and simply lost when NG and others went from paper archives to digital files.

I worked for a company that did that and it was tragic how much knowledge was lost because not every document was scanned in and stored.

Not to mention that those engineers have long since retired or died.

I can’t say with certainty, but I suspect the B2 is a lot like the Saturn V.  Not many were built so many of its components were hand-assembled and built with tribal knowledge that was not written down.  That’s why NASA couldn’t just have Rocketdyne crank out a bunch of new F-1 engines, they had the official plans, but the guys who know how to make them work had taken that knowledge to a beach house on the Gulf coast or the grave.

All that said, I think the commentary from the video is what is most sad.

If the B2 is America at its Cold War technical best, the zenith of engineering creativity of a nation with a purpose, then forgetting how to make critical B2 components and losing that information is the zenith of what we’ve become a decadent failing society.

I am reminded of the poem The Ruins.  It is a poem from the 8th Century from the perspective of an Anglo-Saxon looking upon the ruins of Roman architecture.

These wall-stones are wondrous —
calamities crumpled them, these city-sites crashed, the work of giants
corrupted. The roofs have rushed to earth, towers in ruins.
Ice at the joints has unroofed the barred-gates, sheared
the scarred storm-walls have disappeared—
the years have gnawed them from beneath. A grave-grip holds
the master-crafters, decrepit and departed, in the ground’s harsh
grasp, until one hundred generations of human-nations have
trod past. Subsequently this wall, lichen-grey and rust-stained,
often experiencing one kingdom after another,
standing still under storms, high and wide—
it failed—

We have these technological relics among us, built by an older, wiser civilization that lived on this land before us, and we look at those relics but cannot comprehend how they were created.

I weep to think that in the not-too-distant future, this is a nation where nobody knows how to make a jet engine and the B2 is reduced to a derelict for TikTok influencers and OnlyFans cam-girls to dance in front of and rub their tits on because nobody knows how to make them fly.

Louis Ottens — the Dutch engineer credited with inventing the audio cassette tape — has died at the age of 94.

Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad first reported that Ottens died March 6th in Duizel, the Netherlands. No cause of death was provided.

A longtime engineer at the Dutch electronics and technology company Philips, Ottens — in his role as head of the product development department — led the Belgian team charged with converting the bulky reel-to-reel tape recorders of the era into something more portable and consumer-friendly; Ottens’ goal was to make a cassette tape that could fit a jacket’s inside pocket.

After its development, Philips’ audio cassette made its debut at electronics fairs in August 1963. Soon after, Japanese electronics companies created their own iteration of the audio cassette of varying sizes, but Ottens struck a deal between Sony and Philips to ensure their model would become the patented cassette on the market.

Lou Ottens, Inventor of the Audio Cassette Tape, Dead at 94 – Rolling Stone

Not only the cassette gave us portability but also the ability to finally mix and match music to our liking. He allowed us to have the famous mixed tapes.

I was a TDK guy, but I figure this classic Maxwell commercial is a fitting tribute.

Man Shot And Killed Near George Floyd Square In Minneapolis

Authorities say a man was shot and killed near the Minneapolis intersection known as George Floyd Square, where Floyd died in police custody last May.

Police received reports about 5:45 p.m. Saturday that two people had been shot and were being brought to the barricades at the entrance to the area. Police say the victim was gone by the time officers arrived.

Police later learned that the victim had been taken to a hospital, where he died. A second person was not located. The Star Tribune reports that police were met with “some interference” when they responded to the scene, but a department spokesman did not elaborate.

Some interference?

Interference like this, perhaps?

The George Floyd memorial is an "autonomous zone" with several blocks controlled by activists. Police don't even go in. We tried to respectfully get video-but left after two people confronted us near the barricades.
Later learned many protestors don't even feel comfortable there. pic.twitter.com/5w32fxQ0hR

— Brian Entin (@BrianEntin) March 10, 2021

These two masked individuals are openly threatening a reporter in public during daylight hours on a city street.

I suspect the police were treated similarly but due to the situation of the Derek Chauvin trial beginning, they were inclined (if not ordered) to let it slide.

Radical activists create an “autonomous zone” and name it after a criminal, inside of it a person is murdered and the activists patrol it like third-world warlords.

Did anyone expect anything different?

The only real question is why do cities continue to cede zones like this to thugs when everyone knows what happens in them?