If you're like me you've wondered why, in old cowboy movies, guys could take a dozen rounds from a .44 and live. The answer is simple: Those weren't hollow-points.
This is the problem. This is a semi-jacketed hollow-point, typically found in pistols on the hips of cops. That center projection is to improve penetration. As you can see, on impact, that copper jacket peels back to become a razor-sharp, jagged bundle of metal. The lead core flattens and spreads out, maximizing damage.
This is called Hydra-Shock ammo. This is a reference to hydrostatic shock - the transference of energy through the water that makes up most of a human body. Cell walls are shredded, ruptured, and the damage spreads out much farther than the actual impact area of the projectile. It's also called stopping power, because people stop when one of these hits them. They stop for a long time. A wound from one of these will never heal properly. Depending on the range, a hollow-point will either lodge in the body, leaving scattered and irretrievable fragments, or blow all the way through, leaving a fist-sized hole coming out. Either way, no one hit by one of these will ever be the same again.
Someone sat down and designed this. They said "Bullets just don't kill effectively enough," and thought of ways to make bullets meaner. Then they sold these to Officer Friendly. Officer Friendly has been trained since day one on the force to think everyone that's not a cop is a potential cop-killer. "Protect and Serve" is just PR. They see it as Us and Them. Officer Friendly loves hollow-points.
Saturday, June 9, 2007
Hookers...
I envy those of you that have that filter, that "I don't want to think about that" filter, that allows you to hear the screams of all the cattle ahead of you, and the splashes as their guts hit the kill-floor, and tell yourselves it's the wind. I wish I had that. Those of you that don't have that filter, welcome aboard. Don't be tempted by madness or depression. There's work to be done.
If you're wondering why I mention hookers, I get more hits that way. Sad but true.
If you're wondering why I mention hookers, I get more hits that way. Sad but true.
Sunday, June 3, 2007
It doesn't work that way...
I just heard about this. I haven't been paying attention in the past couple of days. Sorry I'm late.
First of all, jet fuel is not gasoline. It doesn't detonate, it just burns. It's fuel-oil. It would no more blow an underground pipeline than the burning oilfields in Kuwait would have blown huge craters in the earth, or your kerosene lantern would explode when you light the wick. Even gasoline has to be aerosolized to explode. That's what a carburetor is for. This is blatant fear-mongering. The damage done would be minimal by terroristic standards, in a localized area, and probably more to property than to people. Those tanks are double-hulled, spaced a ways from each other, and really far from the rest of the airport. Those tanks are designed with fire-prevention and damage control in mind. Using conventional explosives as an igniter there would be a huge fireball, and big fire that would be immediately put out by the the fire-crew on standby, trained to handle that exact situation. There would be no blast wave other than from the igniter, and only the area directly exposed to oxygen would burn. This is sixth-grade science. The underground fuel pipeline would not explode under a residential neighborhood. They think of things like that before they put fuel pipelines under neighborhoods.
And never mind the virtual impossibility of delivering or planting explosives anywhere near those tanks. They wouldn't reach the tanks in a truck, on a suicide run. They wouldn't be able to wear vests of dynamite and stand next to the tanks, or ninja in and plant big bombs on the bare metal. All the firemen on standby right there would see them, even if there were no bomb-sniffing dogs or men with machine-guns all over that airport.
According to a Fox News report, these guys made multiple trips to Guyana to obtain funds and support. These guys were at it for eighteen months, and couldn't find anyone to help them. Aside from the fact that their plan just wouldn't work, everyone is so scared of America that they wouldn't dare assist. We level entire countries when anyone messes with us. Not necessarily the right country, but Guyana doesn't have the oil that Saudi Arabia does. We would swat them, and it would hardly make the American news.
I haven't found anything saying what these guys are charged with. No doubt they're charged with something, but I hope it's not terrorism. They had no explosives, and after the FBI followed them for eighteen months, twelve of them using an "informant," they still had nothing concrete in the works. Conspiracy, maybe, but even a conspiracy charge requires an actual crime to have been committed. "Intentions" aren't a crime. There's a misdemeanor charge of "Terroristic Threats," or maybe a bomb-scare law might apply, but only if they made a declaration of their intentions to their intended victims. A "threat." From what I understand, in a typical bust situation, when law enforcement has an informant, or are legitimately monitoring the actions of a suspected criminal after having demonstrated probably cause before a judge, they wait until a law is broken before they make an arrest. They perform something referred to in the movies as a "sting operation." They catch them in the act, taking delivery of explosives, for example.
I have no doubt these guys hate Israel. The government of Israel makes this administration look like the Care Bears. Most of the prominent figures in Israeli government have been war criminals in an undeclared war, who dropped British-supplied artillery shells on residential neighborhoods in Palestine before rolling in with their British-supplied tanks and arms and running off or killing the survivors. For a long time, the UN didn't recognize Israel as a country, and referred to it as "Occupied Palestine." There was a UN resolution to that effect, but I can't remember the number off-hand. I don't want to look it up, and get the FBI's attention. The Israeli regime is brutal. The Israeli military uses Palestinians as human-shields, and drops cluster-bombs on civilian neighborhoods. A lot of people in that area are very unhappy with Israel. Our tax dollars pay for Israel's military. A lot of people around there resent that, too.
This informant was a twice-convicted drug-dealer. Has anyone ever heard of the three-strikes rule? What I would be interested to know is how, exactly, the gentleman came to contact the FBI, and at what point did these guys stop talking about how they could "totally blow up those tanks" to flying to Guyana looking for foreign support?
These guys are obviously not very smart, though. Aside from a plan a sixth-grader knows wouldn't work, these guys chose their target for ill-conceived reasons. One of the guys used to work there, so it was a target of convenience. For some reason, they were expecting a blast, a detonation wave, that would damage the control tower, and hurt our economy. Let me say this to any potential terrorist out there: You can't hurt our economy by blowing things up. Our economy is based almost entirely on weapons. When you blow shit up, the people you hate get richer. This Defreitas guy apparently misjudges American sentiment towards airports named after presidents, too. I don't think, in twenty years, anyone will say "I remember where I was when I heard about the fire at JFK Airport." What I'm saying is that he fits the same description of all the other "home-grown terror cells" that have been manufactured over the past several years. They're borderline retarded, in close contact with someone that will do whatever the FBI says in order to avoid life in prison for strike three, and not one inch of det-cord past the "early planning stages."
There has not been a death on American soil from "terrorism" since 9/11. Federal law enforcement is batting a thousand against terrorism. It's unprecedented. It's too good to be true. It's bullshit. This is a sham. This is perpetrated. This is manipulation of the masses. Please don't fall for it.
First of all, jet fuel is not gasoline. It doesn't detonate, it just burns. It's fuel-oil. It would no more blow an underground pipeline than the burning oilfields in Kuwait would have blown huge craters in the earth, or your kerosene lantern would explode when you light the wick. Even gasoline has to be aerosolized to explode. That's what a carburetor is for. This is blatant fear-mongering. The damage done would be minimal by terroristic standards, in a localized area, and probably more to property than to people. Those tanks are double-hulled, spaced a ways from each other, and really far from the rest of the airport. Those tanks are designed with fire-prevention and damage control in mind. Using conventional explosives as an igniter there would be a huge fireball, and big fire that would be immediately put out by the the fire-crew on standby, trained to handle that exact situation. There would be no blast wave other than from the igniter, and only the area directly exposed to oxygen would burn. This is sixth-grade science. The underground fuel pipeline would not explode under a residential neighborhood. They think of things like that before they put fuel pipelines under neighborhoods.
And never mind the virtual impossibility of delivering or planting explosives anywhere near those tanks. They wouldn't reach the tanks in a truck, on a suicide run. They wouldn't be able to wear vests of dynamite and stand next to the tanks, or ninja in and plant big bombs on the bare metal. All the firemen on standby right there would see them, even if there were no bomb-sniffing dogs or men with machine-guns all over that airport.
According to a Fox News report, these guys made multiple trips to Guyana to obtain funds and support. These guys were at it for eighteen months, and couldn't find anyone to help them. Aside from the fact that their plan just wouldn't work, everyone is so scared of America that they wouldn't dare assist. We level entire countries when anyone messes with us. Not necessarily the right country, but Guyana doesn't have the oil that Saudi Arabia does. We would swat them, and it would hardly make the American news.
I haven't found anything saying what these guys are charged with. No doubt they're charged with something, but I hope it's not terrorism. They had no explosives, and after the FBI followed them for eighteen months, twelve of them using an "informant," they still had nothing concrete in the works. Conspiracy, maybe, but even a conspiracy charge requires an actual crime to have been committed. "Intentions" aren't a crime. There's a misdemeanor charge of "Terroristic Threats," or maybe a bomb-scare law might apply, but only if they made a declaration of their intentions to their intended victims. A "threat." From what I understand, in a typical bust situation, when law enforcement has an informant, or are legitimately monitoring the actions of a suspected criminal after having demonstrated probably cause before a judge, they wait until a law is broken before they make an arrest. They perform something referred to in the movies as a "sting operation." They catch them in the act, taking delivery of explosives, for example.
I have no doubt these guys hate Israel. The government of Israel makes this administration look like the Care Bears. Most of the prominent figures in Israeli government have been war criminals in an undeclared war, who dropped British-supplied artillery shells on residential neighborhoods in Palestine before rolling in with their British-supplied tanks and arms and running off or killing the survivors. For a long time, the UN didn't recognize Israel as a country, and referred to it as "Occupied Palestine." There was a UN resolution to that effect, but I can't remember the number off-hand. I don't want to look it up, and get the FBI's attention. The Israeli regime is brutal. The Israeli military uses Palestinians as human-shields, and drops cluster-bombs on civilian neighborhoods. A lot of people in that area are very unhappy with Israel. Our tax dollars pay for Israel's military. A lot of people around there resent that, too.
This informant was a twice-convicted drug-dealer. Has anyone ever heard of the three-strikes rule? What I would be interested to know is how, exactly, the gentleman came to contact the FBI, and at what point did these guys stop talking about how they could "totally blow up those tanks" to flying to Guyana looking for foreign support?
These guys are obviously not very smart, though. Aside from a plan a sixth-grader knows wouldn't work, these guys chose their target for ill-conceived reasons. One of the guys used to work there, so it was a target of convenience. For some reason, they were expecting a blast, a detonation wave, that would damage the control tower, and hurt our economy. Let me say this to any potential terrorist out there: You can't hurt our economy by blowing things up. Our economy is based almost entirely on weapons. When you blow shit up, the people you hate get richer. This Defreitas guy apparently misjudges American sentiment towards airports named after presidents, too. I don't think, in twenty years, anyone will say "I remember where I was when I heard about the fire at JFK Airport." What I'm saying is that he fits the same description of all the other "home-grown terror cells" that have been manufactured over the past several years. They're borderline retarded, in close contact with someone that will do whatever the FBI says in order to avoid life in prison for strike three, and not one inch of det-cord past the "early planning stages."
There has not been a death on American soil from "terrorism" since 9/11. Federal law enforcement is batting a thousand against terrorism. It's unprecedented. It's too good to be true. It's bullshit. This is a sham. This is perpetrated. This is manipulation of the masses. Please don't fall for it.
Friday, June 1, 2007
Corporate Psychopaths...
I have no head for business. I care too much for things like honor and integrity to be successful in a corporate atmosphere. I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, either. Maybe that's why I don't understand this.
"NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Dell, the No. 2 PC maker, reported sales and profits Thursday that handily beat Wall Street forecasts and announced it would cut its staff by 10 percent over the next 12 months."
I'm not a big fan of corporations. A while back, when my dad was alive, he worked for the same company for over twenty years. ConAgra bought that company, and wanted to clean house. Dad was pushing fifty, making six figures a year, and running the show. ConAgra gave him the option of leaving the company, or moving to Georgia to do twice the work for the same pay. They were trying to run him off, because a twenty-something kid just out of college would do the same job for a fraction of the pay. Dad wasn't much of a quitter, so he made the move, and died in Georgia. I've always blamed ConAgra, and I always will. (Fuck you, ConAgra.)
Now, I don't exactly have my MBA (though I've had two MBAs working for me, at NRS and Papa John's - "I'm so smart, I went to school for seven extra years, got my MBA, and now I work for a high-school drop-out!"), but I've worked for a handful of corporations. Telling my employees that the pay-cut they just took would be good for them in the long run used to be part of my job. I used to say things like:
"'While reductions in headcount are always difficult for a company, we know these actions are critical to our ability to deliver unprecedented value to our customers now and in the future,' Michael Dell said in a statement."
If you were wondering, that's what bullshit smells like. I prefer the acrid smell of truth:
"The Board of Directors, as representatives of the stockholders, is committed to the achievement of business success and the enhancement of long-term stockholder value with the highest standards of integrity and ethics. In that regard, the Board has adopted these principles to provide an effective corporate governance framework for Dell, intending to reflect a set of core values that provide the foundation for Dell's governance and management systems and its interactions with others."
A little further digging, and I found this, which equates a corporation, which is a juristic person and has all the legal rights and protections of an individual, but none of the responsibility, actually qualifies as a psychopathic personality, and is bound by law to do whatever evil, underhanded, backstabbing shit possible to squeeze out a few extra pennies for the stockholders.
Wait... bound by law? How did that happen? Ah, corporate lobbyists. Special interests throwing money and catamites (look it up) at Congressmen and Senators. So that means Schoolhouse Rock lied to me. Now I'm really mad.
"NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Dell, the No. 2 PC maker, reported sales and profits Thursday that handily beat Wall Street forecasts and announced it would cut its staff by 10 percent over the next 12 months."
I'm not a big fan of corporations. A while back, when my dad was alive, he worked for the same company for over twenty years. ConAgra bought that company, and wanted to clean house. Dad was pushing fifty, making six figures a year, and running the show. ConAgra gave him the option of leaving the company, or moving to Georgia to do twice the work for the same pay. They were trying to run him off, because a twenty-something kid just out of college would do the same job for a fraction of the pay. Dad wasn't much of a quitter, so he made the move, and died in Georgia. I've always blamed ConAgra, and I always will. (Fuck you, ConAgra.)
Now, I don't exactly have my MBA (though I've had two MBAs working for me, at NRS and Papa John's - "I'm so smart, I went to school for seven extra years, got my MBA, and now I work for a high-school drop-out!"), but I've worked for a handful of corporations. Telling my employees that the pay-cut they just took would be good for them in the long run used to be part of my job. I used to say things like:
"'While reductions in headcount are always difficult for a company, we know these actions are critical to our ability to deliver unprecedented value to our customers now and in the future,' Michael Dell said in a statement."
If you were wondering, that's what bullshit smells like. I prefer the acrid smell of truth:
"The Board of Directors, as representatives of the stockholders, is committed to the achievement of business success and the enhancement of long-term stockholder value with the highest standards of integrity and ethics. In that regard, the Board has adopted these principles to provide an effective corporate governance framework for Dell, intending to reflect a set of core values that provide the foundation for Dell's governance and management systems and its interactions with others."
A little further digging, and I found this, which equates a corporation, which is a juristic person and has all the legal rights and protections of an individual, but none of the responsibility, actually qualifies as a psychopathic personality, and is bound by law to do whatever evil, underhanded, backstabbing shit possible to squeeze out a few extra pennies for the stockholders.
Wait... bound by law? How did that happen? Ah, corporate lobbyists. Special interests throwing money and catamites (look it up) at Congressmen and Senators. So that means Schoolhouse Rock lied to me. Now I'm really mad.
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