Happy Monday, campers. Sorry to be out of commission for so long, but I'm finally feeling good enough to start posting again. I hope things only go up from here.
It appears that many of Boston's officers are quietly rebelling against the anti-ICE stance taken by Boston Mayor Michelle Wu's (D) administration. According to acting ICE Director Todd Lyons, Boston cops are secretly providing critical information to federal immigration officials to help arrest criminal illegal aliens—a bold move that flies in the face of the sanctuary city policies pushed by Wu and other extremist Democrat mayors across the country.
These so-called adults in charge in Democrat cities really don't have any clue how many find them to be completely insane. The fact that they don't even want to cooperate with anyone on the right or anyone in the Federal government and would rather stand up with the criminals and murderers than make sure these people see justice is not something I ever thought I'd see. Kudos to the police officers who are doing their jobs.
It's been eight months since the California wildfires incinerated hundreds of homes and left charred scars stretching for miles in Pacific Palisades, Malibu, and Altadena. The natives are getting restless, however. Angelenos want to know what officially caused these fires, which led to homelessness and despair and contributed to a corrosive and abiding distrust of local and state government competence.
I'm seeing rumors that China wants to buy the land. Keep in mind:
Senator Rick Scott, at the bidding of desperate Palisades fire victims, answered their pleas to get answers from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The ATF took command of the investigation less than a week after the Palisades fire sparked at 10:30 a.m on Tuesday, January 7.
I don't see why ATF had the authority to do this, though. What am I forgetting? Wasn't this just a wildfire that was never contained because there was no water in the reservoirs that were required to have water by law?
It was reported last week that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. General Jeffrey Kruse.
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The DIA, which is the Pentagon’s main intelligence service, has been facing scrutiny from the White House, after it was reported that the agency had leaked to the media a June intelligence report on the damage caused by the June 13 U.S. airstrikes on Iran's three main nuclear sites.
The leaked report is at odds with official statements from the White House that Iran's ability to produce nuclear weapons was eliminated.
Maybe releasing different assessments that go against official policy should be a bad idea all the time, just not when a Democrat is the president.
The fact that the Dems are pretty much insane is never mentioned.
vxbush
8/25/2025 6:06:47 AM
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How much are people following the protests in Britain about illegal immigrants? And has anyone kept track of how many countries are dealing with the same? US, Britain, Poland, Hungary, etc. etc.
JCM
8/25/2025 7:15:07 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 3:
ATF has an arson division for special cases of incendiary devices. Not sure why they are involved in CA.
Decades ago we had a serial arsonist. There was a big regional task force investigating and ATF was involved. I got to be the guinea pig firefighter to try to put out the test devices. My observations had to match the previous reports. One device did, it had a magnesium and thermite components. Which when you put water on it breaks down water to hydrogen and oxygen.... the water literally explodes... in my face. It was okay we had enough distance but it was still impressive as hell, shock wave, thermal pulse. Wood surface on the other side of the room would burst into flames.
The Collective Punjabi Youth created a petition on Change.org to urge Governor Ron DeSantis and the Florida Board of Executive Clemency to reduce Singh's sentence, claiming it was not a deliberate act.
That reasoning is just horse pucky. vehicular and negligent homicide charges are normal for this type of accident.
Common sense, any type of reasonable sense has left the building.
WA and CA need to face the music on this, I don't mean the taxpayers I mean the officials who broke Federal Law in issuing the guy a CDL. The families need to be suing the States, getting discovery on the process that allowed it to happen then move to waive qualified immunity for those officials so they feel the pain directly.
JCM
8/25/2025 7:29:14 AM
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In #3 vxbush said: Wasn't this just a wildfire that was never contained because there was no water in the reservoirs that were required to have water by law?
Lizard Newscum was on TV the previous December bragging about environmental success in saving fish. Scumwad denied that of course.
vxbush
8/25/2025 7:31:47 AM
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In #7 JCM said: Decades ago we had a serial arsonist. There was a big regional task force investigating and ATF was involved. I got to be the guinea pig firefighter to try to put out the test devices. My observations had to match the previous reports. One device did, it had a magnesium and thermite components. Which when you put water on it breaks down water to hydrogen and oxygen.... the water literally explodes... in my face. It was okay we had enough distance but it was still impressive as hell, shock wave, thermal pulse. Wood surface on the other side of the room would burst into flames.
Wow. Just watching sodium explode in water was impressive enough. I've not played with thermite. And I have no access to either material, in case ATF is watching here today.
I believe I saw some excerpts of the online "pleas for clemency" on another site. They were all virtually identical---same talking points, in the same order, in virtually the same words. In other words, an entirely fabricated astroturf initiative.
JCM
8/25/2025 8:39:08 AM
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Reply to buzzsawmonkey in 12:
Yup, it's the TDS agenda pure and simply. No care or thought about what occurred, the culpability of the driver, not thoughts about how he is even here, no examination of Federal Laws broken by the States.... pure TDS.
JCM
8/25/2025 8:49:37 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 10:
Never caught the arsonist. He did about a dozen commercial structures over 10 years, the working theory was insurance fraud arson for hire. Investigator could never prove the property owners hired anyone, and never caught the smuck.
This guy's trigger using magnesium and thermite it would burn holes in concrete, turn cast iron radiators 20 feet away into a puddle of iron. Any combustible surface within 100 feet would ignite from radiated heat. He was using enough of the stuff that a few times there was material left for the firefighters arriving to put water on it and the subsequent explosive reaction.
Once the trigger was confirmed ATF tried tracing purchases of magnesium and thermite and it's ingredients.
vxbush
8/25/2025 8:53:06 AM
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In #11 JCM said: There was a protest at a mosque construction site, I guys yells "I like bacon" and gets arrested.
Yet again, different tiers of justice depending on color of skin or preferred demographic.
Kosh's Shadow
8/25/2025 8:54:13 AM
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In #10 vxbush said: Just watching sodium explode in water was impressive enough
Yes. Someone in high school managed to get some (or was it potassium?) from somewhere. He threw it in a pond.
Boom - fragments fly back into the pond and more booms.
vxbush
8/25/2025 9:46:50 AM
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In #16 Kosh's Shadow said: Yes. Someone in high school managed to get some (or was it potassium?) from somewhere. He threw it in a pond.
Boom - fragments fly back into the pond and more booms.
I know it was sodium in our case. I don't know about potassium.
JCM
8/25/2025 10:29:14 AM
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Reply to vxbush in 17:
All the Group 1 elements, first column on the Periodic Table, hydrogen some what of an exception because it hard ever occurs as a single H atom always occurs as H2 diatomic hydrogen.
vxbush
8/25/2025 11:41:51 AM
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It's a really bad sign when the tech support guy you're talking to online shares a document that proves he lies.
vxbush
8/25/2025 11:50:28 AM
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In #18 JCM said: All the Group 1 elements, first column on the Periodic Table
Sorry, that's one of many things I haven't memorized.
Kosh's Shadow
8/25/2025 11:54:33 AM
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In #19 vxbush said: It's a really bad sign when the tech support guy you're talking to online shares a document that proves he lies.
Make sure you have a copy of it! At least a screenshot
vxbush
8/25/2025 12:14:36 PM
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In #21 Kosh's Shadow said: Make sure you have a copy of it! At least a screenshot
Nah. I'm not worried about it. I already filled out the customer survey to point out why the guy got 2 stars. I was being obscenely generous with that.
JCM
8/25/2025 12:38:01 PM
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Reply to vxbush in 20:
My major burned into my brain cells.
vxbush
8/25/2025 12:59:22 PM
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In #23 JCM said: My major burned into my brain cells.
Heh. No pun there. No sirreebob.
Kosh's Shadow
8/25/2025 4:22:43 PM
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SpaceX Starship launch in 36 minutes
And an interesting note in the Frontier, if you can find it (thread is messed up)
Kosh's Shadow
8/25/2025 4:51:03 PM
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I have to point out that because of Starlink, the long-used TLE (Two-line element) describing satellite orbits needed to be extended to handle more satellites - the original format supported only 99999 sattelites. There is a stopgap measure, Alpha5, to allow more, but the format really needs to be updated from the format based on 80-column punched cards
JCM
8/24/2025 7:26:06 PM
Kosh's Shadow
8/25/2025 8:54:13 AM