Author Archives: Alaska

Outrageous Use of SWAT

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Alaska

…from 1973. Admittedly, that was LAPD, which was SWAT-crazy back then anyway (LAPD invented it, after all). But it sure feels like that ridiculous attitude has spread like a virus to every police department in the country.

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Who Wants A Shipstone?

Posted on August 7, 2011 by Alaska

Bill Gates’ traveling-wave reactor designuses an uranium so common on Earth it can provide everyone on the planet with the same level of power consumption Americans enjoy — for a million years. Demo reactor scheduled to be built in 2020. … Continue reading →

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Incredible Shrinking Survival Cans

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Alaska

  While repacking our pantry, I noticed something. Over the past two years, for both our pantry and our survival packs, I’ve been buying Libby’s canned beef thru Amazon (I stopped this year when Costco started carrying its superior canned … Continue reading →

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Islamic Extremist Culture Destruction Proceeds Apace

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Alaska

Under the surface, I suspect the increasing spread of porn is doing the heavy lifting in the ongoing slow march of the West to achieve the goal of destroying radical islam’s culture. (Another of widespread porn’s many benefits, btw). But … Continue reading →

Posted in Evil walks the earth, Freaks, Mutants, and Morons | 3 Comments

Biutiful Barcelona

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Alaska

When we visited Barcelona a couple years back, I noted the patently obvious government make-work construction jobs, and other signs the Spanish economy was not all it had been cracked up to be. However, the parts of Barcelona we visited … Continue reading →

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Pay Attention! There Is No Man Behind The Curtain Anymore!

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Alaska

The Sun Is Setting On Our Rigged Markets. The author may or may not be a contrarian as advertised in the column heading (I’ve never read the guy before), so perhaps it’s usual for him to characterize the markets as … Continue reading →

Posted in Academia and Other Nonsense, Armageddon | 2 Comments

So who’s the Modern Equivalent?

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Alaska

ModeledBehavior has an intriguing post comparing our current red/blue political polarization to the Byzantine Roman Chariot Racing Clubs, which gained political, military and social influence as the public rallied and politicians allied to Blue or Green. The Blue-Green rivalry often … Continue reading →

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In Soviet Russia, Police Burgle YOU!

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Alaska

Oh wait, that happens here now too… –from Soviet humor magazine Krokodil, during Glasnost. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone

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RNS Quote of the Day, 08/03/11

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Alaska

Police in this situation would certainly have “qualified immunity” meaning they cannot be held individually responsible. Piercing this immunity is quite difficult and a simple case of false arrest will not do so. Can one recover costs etc. from the … Continue reading →

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Ground-Penetrating Radar Finds Your Cache

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Alaska

A colleague just resigned to go work on a ground-penetrating radar project to locate unexploded ordnance from an airborne remote-sensing device at 10,000 feet. A decade ago, this fellow was doing the same work in Columbia. They’d see the cocaine … Continue reading →

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