This weekend was the Team Dive. There was, as always these days, no diving; but many of the members of A-1 / ODA-111 / ODA-1111 / ODA-2034 (the same basic team, with different numbers, over a span of some forty years) and a few friends from other ODAs in the same company did show up …
In the process of fighting to get away from Walmart employees who apprehended him stealing, thief Kenneth Wisham managed to get choked sufficiently to wake up dead. Now, someone might conclude that a small-time career criminal, who kept rolling the dice when he was well and truly caught, is not someone that will be missed …
One of the most frightening things in any aircraft is inflight fire. Generally, immediate action for that is “Get on the ground — now!” But given the limited maneuverablity of a hot air balloon, the commercial pilot of a sightseeing balloon in Texas may not have had time to act. Video and stills show the balloon trailing …
October 1946, an Allied engineer unit with a mix of British and US uniforms and equipment does its bit for peace, blowing up leftover Nazi bunkers along the Siegfried Line in France. Polish-language newsreel, possibly French or Polish engineers. We couldn’t figure out ow to embed the video, so you’ll have to follow the link: http://www.repozytorium.fn.org.pl/?q=pl/node/4894 …
This Tour d’Horizon collects a bunch of stuff off the spindle. This is where we throw a lot of our open tabs. Guns I don’t wanna work, I just wanna bang on my gun all day. Slide Fire Solutions Bumps off Bump Fire Systems Some of the gun media are reporting this as a “settlement,” which it is, technically; …
One of the elephants in the Rabat zoo. No idea if this is the mishap elephant. Who says primates are alone as tool users? Not the people of Rabat, Morocco, where a young citizen has expired after a zoo elephant took up that great Arab pastime, trying to kill people with thrown stones. A seven-year-old …
You know, that list of 8,000 names they’ve instructed their splodydopes, machete-meisters and generally murderous mohammedrones to go kill? CounterJihad claims to have a copy of the list. You can go to this link and enter your name and email, and if Hadji has spelled your name right, when he put you on the list, they’ll give …
In the 1950s and 1960s, the great European empires that had ruled most of the world continued their retreat from Africa and Asia, and many new nations became independent. Other nations which had longer if interrupted history of independence — Egypt is at issue here — found themselves realigning away from former colonial or commonwealth …
We give you April Corcoran, Mother of the Year. Washington Post, take it away: “I can honestly say that, in three-and-a-half years on the bench, this is by far the worst thing that has come before this court.” So said Judge Leslie Ghiz of Ohio’s Hamilton County Pleas Court as she sentenced April Corcoran to …
Our research on Czechoslovak and Bohemian gun designs and designers has caused us to dive surprisingly deep into Austro-Hungarian arms. A lot of the key designers of Habsburg empire were either Czechs (ethnically) or were ethnic Germans resident in the majority-Czech Kingdom of Bohemia, one of many small historical kingdoms subsumed into vassalage to the Austrian …