Friday, June 13, 2025

Guilty Pleas and Guess Which Agency?

6/12/25 DOJ press release:
"USAID Official and Three Corporate Executives Plead Guilty to Decade-Long Bribery Scheme Involving Over $550 Million in Contracts; Two Companies Admit Criminal Liability for Bribery Scheme and Securities Fraud"

I Went to the Range Today

I took a new shooter with me from church.   He has never field stripped his S&W M&P 2.0.

I had two goals:

1. Verify the bore sighters got the M1A and a bolt action. 308 zeroed.  Both were able to ring the 200 yard plate.  The boI t action not as frequently but I think I need to work on hold.  It has no bipod.

The M1A had no problem with the 500 yard plate.   I was not prepared to battle the .bolt action without a sandbag. 

2.  The first 100 rounds through the PPK has some feed and eject failure.  I took Armacor, PMC and American Eagle high velocity hollow points.   All fired reliably.  It just needed breaking in.

When i first fired that bolt-action rifle, the recoil was severe enough that I found myself wondering,  "Was this a mistake?"  I put a recoil pad on it and found it better. Perhaps I am getting tougher but the recoil was quite acceptable today. 

This Is So Profoundly Progressive

What looks like mother and son telling a black woman off who wants to get to work to feed her family laughing at the idea of work.  Trust fund babies generally find that idea (think Princess Bride) "inconceivable. "

Thursday, June 12, 2025

I Was Wondering About This

I was assuming the uranium was being contributed as some liquid for such as uranium chloride or uranium iodide but ChatGPT says Iran is centrifuging uranium hexafluoride 

If so, those bunker busters will do enormous damage even after the explosions end.  UF6 is so corrosive that DuPont invented Teflon to withstand the corrosion of valves and surfaces.  This is done at pretty temperatures, I think so releasing several thousand liters of UF6 is going to look like a Hollywood action movie thst is really over the top.  I doubt there will be many survivors of the explosions, either human or machine. 

Why Now?

Israel attacks Iran, degrading Iranian air defenses. Iran retaliates against U.S. bases in the Middle East.  B2s at Diego Garcia drops bunker busters that Israel cannot deliver. 

Is It My Imagination or Are Public Restrooms a Lot Better Maintained The Last 20 Years?

Video Clips Out of Context

Conventional wisdom is now that conservatives are taking stuff out of context to imply that the violence is more widespread than it really is.

Watch these and ask yourself how out of context these are:


The level of violence,  arson, and looting shows how little truth  this claim has.