Some Suspected Mail Bombs Were Not Capable of Exploding

Pretty inept, whoever the perpetrator was….If they wanted to do more than scare people and make a big HuHu.

I still hope that whoever he or she is, they catch him and incarcerate him for a long time.

ETA: Apparently a suspect in Custody….and (and this is significant!) they used his cell phone to track him down. (For good or for bad, having a cell phone in your name destroys your privacy. Even a burner phone, once you take it home, can be linked to you. If it is co-located while  turned on with your “normal” phone, it becomes linked to you, especially if you drive with both phones powered up.  So don’t do illegal shit , and the authorities won’t have a reason to use your phone to track you)

“ A lot of Democrats have openly called for civil unrest. They’ve excused and condoned violence for political purposes. Well, this is what that looks like. If they advocate this sort of chaos and lunacy, they shouldn’t act surprised when they become targets of it.”


Be careful of that for which you wish….you might get it. 

This woman tried being assertive.…and, oddly enough, people LISTENED to her, and took her as….await for it….A LEADER….Odd how that works. She gave direction rather than asking for a consensus…she made statements that left no room for prevarication, she gave FIRM timelines…and, guess what? People treated her as they would any leader.

She, of course, claims it is “Entitled White male “swagger”” that made it all work for her….not, the fact that she was decisive, didn’t try to reach a “Consensus”,  wasn’t “inclusive” didn’t try to make sure everyone was satisfied…didn’t take excuses, didn’t give extended deadlines, just, like any real leader, expected results and was, like any real leader, firm and clear and gave orders…..and expected those orders to be followed. In  other words, she acted like a boss and got treated like a boss. Like a leader.

Her story is a perfect example why women are “underrepresented in leadership roles”…why so few are top bosses. Why they are fewer in upper management. (Hint, it has everything to do with timidity, and culture of women and failure to take charge, and little to do with your actual physical gender).

Act like a leader, and people will follow. Act like most women do and they won’t. Assertive behavior works.

Does anyone think that these are real? That they are anything but either really poor amateurish attempts to make bombs, or (more likely) to make something that LOOKS like a bomb? (Or at least the type of thing that looks like a bomb as seen in the movies.

PVC? Hard to get any decent pressure to make ….well, either you understand or you don’t. I’m not gonna give any clues. Coiled wires leading to a box from the ends? Yeah, it looks like a movie version of a “bomb”…meant to be seen and identified when the package was X-rayed. I’m surprised they didn’t write “Bomb” on the side in bright red marker just to make sure that it would be identified properly.

Plus of course the “timer” as means of detonation. I’m surprised they didn’t use a “Baby Ben” alarm clock (kids, ask your parents)…..

Plus, of course, those 6 stamps…even though the packages were delivered by a courier, not the USPS.

But hey, it makes for good press don’t it? Lots of pictures and something for the Talking heads to talk about. And, of course, a mostly uneducated audience to believe.

I tried to give “FBI” on CBS one more chance……but I hadda stop watching.

THis one was about Nuclear Power plants….and the errors to make the plot work were….huge.

Plus, I think the intelligence level of the target audience is about 85…with a 9th grade education.

(and, the writing sucked and the acting was….marginal)

As an engineer with some small level of technical training (but a broad, if not deep, level of knowledge), I find shows like this…. poorly written and (obviously) done without a technical consultant of any kind….to be painful to watch. 

But, seriously, if this “New! Hit! Series!!” is aimed at a mainstream audience (or, God help us, a new Millennial audience) then we, as a nation, are circling the rim.

I think I’m gonna have to change my routine and find something else to do on Tuesday nights..,

Spozed to be winds of less than 10 knots for when I had scheduled the airplane.

and they were….but the occasional (mostly not too “Occasional” though) gusts to 24 made me rethink that.  On the other hand, it ain’t like I will never encounter gusty wind conditions…But I didn’t wanna waste my money and not learn anything.

However, in the end, I went up with an instructor and (mostly) hit my marks…. Crosswind shortfield landings in gusty conditions are a challenge though.

Buying a used airplane is kinda like shopping for used car….in craigslist/want ads….only a LOT more expensive and with even more deceptive advertising and creatively done photographs. The dealers are just as much liars as the private individuals…

It might well be worth going through a broker and paying him/her a fee to find what I am looking for.

So I was watching TV Tuesday evening, and happened to catch the opening scenes of the “New Hit Series!” on CBS….”FBI”.

The scene was about a shooter. A sniper. In NYC.

And the character’s speculations about the gun used tell me that they believe that most of their audience has never held a rifle and has never read a gun magazine.

Are the majority of Americans that truly ignorant of rifles in general?

Or is it just writing by east coast urbanites trying to explain the plot details to themselves?

Try this sort of shit in the  “Red” states.

See how well that works for ya.

Be sure you are enrolled in ObamaCare first though.

I doubt the outcome will be what you want, though.

This time, however, everything was peaceful….’cause it stopped when there was no support from others. I expect, however, that at some point that will change.