Arms are loaded into a cargo Il-76 in Belgrade in January, bound somewhere south and east. BIRN photo. How do the rebels and the governments in Libya, Syria, and Iraq (not to mention Iran’s pawns in Lebanon) manage to continue arming themselves with modern weapons, mostly of Russian or older Soviet design, when most of …
Here’s a Chiappa Rhino 2000DS revolver that has more or less reverted to kit form, kinetically. Now, you may have seen this before (about a quarter-million people have looked at the original post on Imgur as of now). Poster saith (on Reddit): This is a friend of a friend occurrence. This is what they told …
The Shenyang J-15 “Flying Shark,” a Chinese domestic version of the Sukhoi Su-33 jet, is China’s shipboard fighter. This extremely professional video from 2014 shows some J-15 ops from shore and from the carrier Liaoning. The airplane is generally in the F-15 or F-18 class. The jet is back in the news lately; it’s had a gestation …
Chris Baker set up this grossly obvious example of “printing” for an article at LuckyGunner that pretty much agrees with this article. The secret to not being obvious about carrying is to just do it and get used to it. Yes, cops nab gangbangers all the time because they can see the kid futzing with …
(Evil dishwasher image lifted from this blog, where at least nobody was harmed by the dishwasher rampage). Sometimes you get a job even the Maytag repairman can’t fix. Police are investigating an “untimely death” in the McIntosh Condominium building Tuesday morning that may have resulted from an apparent electrocution. Deputy Fire Chief Carl Roediger said …
30 Replies We’re going to travel to different continents, where things are happening that are, to put it delicately, not what American foreign policy imagined would be the outcome. The US global foreign policy, which we describe, fairly, we think, as “timid inaction,” is turning out… somewhat differently from the Garden of Eden its sheltered …
These subheadings from the school website take on new connotations, once we understand that systematic sodomy is on the syllabus. True, the teachers and staff of the snob academy St. George’s School haven’t killed anybody, that we know of — yet. But over the decades — continuously, since the 1970s at least — they’ve buggered dozens, if not …
The typical estimate of the total number of firearms in the USA is about 300 million, depending on whom is queried. For example (some of these links are .pdf): Time, 14 Jun 2016: “270 to 310 million.” (What, Time still publishes? Who reads it?) NPR, 5 Jan 16: “more than 300 million guns.” Violence Policy Center (gun-ban …
The movie is called Star Trek: Beyond. So what, exactly, are they beyond? Well, the last two episodes of the Star Trek “reboot,” maybe. The edge of known space? The box-office reach of endless sequels? The capacity of endless CGI to entertain? Has the Great Buggernaut inserted a gratuitous attempt to mainstream teh ghey? Yes. Yes to …
Imagine living 90 years, only to become Purina Lizard Chow. Bonnie Walker was reported missing Wednesday morning from Brookdale Charleston, the West Ashley assisted-living facility where she was a resident. Her body was found in a retention pond behind the property a few hours later. The Charleston County Coroner’s Office ruled her death accidental. The …