DUI checkpoints aren't always near places that serve/sell adult beverages, either. Odd, don't you think?

Nice article, LibertPen.

Way back when I was still working for a large corporation job postings with "diverse candidates welcome" always meant white male need not apply. Maybe Pete Hegseth will make a difference by throwing DEI into the trash can of history.

For sure, but it doesn't even have to be cryogenic cold. Some time back I read a biography on Richard Feynman (title: "Genius" as I recall) and he determined the Challenger disaster was caused by an O-ring that cracked due to the extreme cold snap the launch pad and rocket suffered just before launch. Choosing the right materials is crucial.

I was being pleasantly amused as I moved along this morning, especially with the new Lone Ranger and Tonto as well as AOC's millionaire socialists (hammer and sickle for the C is spot on), but clicking on the obese Gretta was a coffee spewer, LOL! Follow that up with the bust gag and more AOC wisdom and please please save from lefty white women (but are they all women - woman? What's a woman?). Thanks OUC!!!!!!

Outside the US, often 'liberal' still means the opposite of what the Deep State stands for.
Unfortunately, people don't often support those 'liberal' policies.
Instead many support socialist policies.

NASA? Call it BASA - Bureaucrats in Space. What have they done in the past 30 years and $100's of Billions but put a telescope in space?

DEI is their priority, not space exploration. Russia spends 1/10 the money but shuttles the US astronauts to the US space station while NASA made a telescope..

Same deal at the Pentagon. Creative people like me are not considered for contracts, all "set-aside" for others bearing the preferred physical characteristics.

Additionally, Rand’s writings are eerily prophetic. Paraphrasing one of her insightful observations, she indicated:

"The liberals will defeat the conservatives; the progressives will defeat the liberals; the socialists will defeat the progressives; the communists will defeat the socialists."

As Rand concluded, when the Marxist communists win, total European collectivism will be achieved: the sacrifice of all individuals to the state, resulting in an inevitable authoritarian dictatorship.

We are witnessing a transformation of America that began over a century ago. With the continued violation of nearly every one of our precious Bill of Rights, we have a civic responsibility to call out the immorality of this Fascist corruption. As Ayn Rand so aptly noted in her 1963 essay, "Collectivized Rights,"

"There is a difference between a country that recognizes the principle of individual rights, but does not implement it fully in practice, and a country that denies and flouts it explicitly. All "mixed economies" are in a precarious state of transition which, ultimately, has to turn to freedom or collapse into dictatorship. There are four characteristics which brand a country unmistakably as a dictatorship: one-party rule – executions without trial or with a mock trial, for political offenses – the nationalization or expropriation of private property – and censorship. A country guilty of these outrages forfeits any moral prerogatives, any claim to national rights or sovereignty, and becomes an outlaw. Observe, on this particular issue, the shameful end-of-trail and the intellectual disintegration of modern 'liberals'."

Notice those four characteristics and how they have crept into our current political reality. The division created by ceding to an all-knowing, all-powerful State undermines the rugged individualism and fundamental principles that our founding fathers expressed in crafting the Constitution. We must never let that slip away. As paraphrased by the eighteenth-century statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke,
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Wernher Von Braun and his team wrote the systems book on the Saturn V project . It would pay NASA to do a deep review on how that team got the Saturn V stack to the Moon in 8 years.

Hey OGC - did not know that you had them out this early!!!
The first one is so on point!
And you AOC's are so true...
But your ending was perfect - save us from the liberal white women....

Thanks OGC!!!

Was just going back through the history of "The Long 19th Century" and at the beginning the professor (Robert Weiner) it was pointed out that "Liberal" is a term that the definition has changed so many times. In the 19th Century the term was used for someone that would be considered Conservative today. Terms change meaning - going back to the comments on 1984 if "they"continue to change the meaning the hope is to confuse us.

Wow, that brings back memories. Inhibited Red Fuming Nitric Acid (IRFNA) is the one we used as an oxidizer for rockets.  UDMH was dangerous stuff too. One of our people got messed up in the brain from it.  He went into a grocery store and filled a cart beyond full of laundry detergent and kept going until the police took him a hospital. And I remember a hypergolic that our fire department pored out of a bottle, it ignited immediately with contact to the air.  It was like a bottle of fire.

IRFNA and UDMH kept me out of the infantrty. I got drafted and in a secure class in advaced infantry training the instructor got cocky and asked the class if anyone knew what type of fuel the Army Lance Missile used. I raised my hand, explained it to the class, then got picked up by the MP's on the way out of class. It was secret data back then and they wanted to know where I got that info. Fortunately it was a secured class, I got debriefed. I proceed to OCS and got assigned to Artillery OCS.

O2 and high explosives are like chemical relativity. Outside people's physical experience.

Gotta check out the video...

Yes, all on the right track. A mix of a hydrocarbon base (the dirtyand probably oily rat), and LOX (liquid oxygen) produces a very unstable substance similar to nitroglycerin. Any ignition source, even a physical shock can set it off. Most of the rats in the areaa were probwly coated in oil and other contaminates from crawling arund on outdoor test stands etc.

Anoither incudent with LOX occured when a LOX Truck delivery driver knocked a verty large open end wrench off the fender of his truck. Apparently there was a slight leak dripping from somewhere where the wrench must have hit the asphault. Boom, we never found the driver and only pieces of the truck. Extremely shock sensitive. They replaced all the truck unloading pads with concrete, and it got cleaned regularly. I found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY_BM...

Stupid is as Democrats do.
And Trump calls them crazy too.

Me dino really liked it, Dobrien!

Doesn't take much energy to overcome the barrier with with pure O2. Probably just the thing hitting the wall, and a little event right there, spreading immediately. I'm just assuming based on Snezzy's example. Maybe there was oil on the wall or the rat, or some left over, poorly cleaned hypergolic's

Yeah, lot of my soccer buddies kids graduated during COVID. What a mess! My kids got done before.

I thought about that but I was wondering what the ignition source possibilities were.

Saw that, "IT" IS Stupid, unlike them!

How do you get away with that?
That Liberal Women Gov. of Calif. got no balls but you'd never know it!

Indeed. The best analogy I can think of was nailed by Jesus Christ 2000 years ago when he referred to the Scribes and Pharisees as whitewashed graves. All shiny and pretty on the outside, but dead on the inside. You don't even have to be religious to see that is contemporary American usage of the word liberal in place of whitewash in reference to lefties and Marxists. Newspeak in high gear. Oh my, I hope I haven't committed a thought crime here! LOL!

Submission from Dobrien: https://youtu.be/cjqyRoY0TrA

I wonder why John Drury Clark didn't include that rat story in his famous book, "Ignition!"

Rocket science is inherently exciting, even if nothing goes wrong. Things sometimes DO go wrong, as we all know. The Soviet fuel choice of the hypergolic combination of red fuming nitric acid (RFNA) and unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) contributed to the dreadful catastrophe at Baikonur in 1960.

My grandson has had his share of problems. I can't emphasize enough how badly Covid restrictions f*cked these kids over. Some worse than others, and he is still not recovered 100% His younger sister is actually smarter than he is and is currently in college in Manchester, UK. We'll see how that goes.

I just had fried chicken liver in Charleston, SC last week. So good!!!