MaxRedline

Skunk Works Is At It Again

Lockheed Martin has quietly obtained a patent associated with its design for a potentially revolutionary compact fusion reactor, or CFR. If this project has been progressing on schedule, the company could debut a prototype system the size of a shipping container, but capable of powering a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier or 80,000 homes, sometime in the next year or so.

The Lockheed Martin design is vastly smaller than the experimental unit currently under construction in France that'll weigh about 23 tons.

Fusion power has been a dream for the past century, but may soon be reality.

 

Turnabout

Last August, Energy Transfer Partners, the company that built the Dakota Access Pipeline, sued a number of environmental groups, including Greenpeace, BankTrack, and Earth First!, alleging the groups were collectively engaged in racketeering.

Unsurprisingly, they object, claiming that they can't be sued. The judge disagreed:

The Center for Constitutional Rights maintains Earth First is an unstructured social movement or philosophy, similar to Black Lives Matter, and can’t be sued. However, U.S. District Judge Billy Roy Wilson says Earth First has been a listed plaintiff in three federal lawsuits in the 1980s and 1990s, involving a water project in Arizona, a wilderness area in Oregon and a New Mexico canyon important to American Indians.

“If Earth First can sue, it seems to me that it is subject to being sued,” Wilson said in a March 22 order.

I'm guessing that this judge isn't an Uhbama appointee; he's way too logical.

It's about time that the professional "environmental" litigators get punched back.

 

Gun Control VS. Machete Control

Between 60 and 80 "migrants" were involved in a brawl Monday night on the streets of Duisburg, Germany, and police issued a state of emergency alert due to the fact that the brawlers were using machetes and pipes in the conflict. CS gas was deployed to bring the situation under control, and around 50 were arrested.

A police official told the newspaper Der Westen: "There are three rival groups. It may be a conflict between Turks, Lebanese and Kurds.

This illustrates one of the many reasons why encouraging unrestricted acceptance of barbarians into a civilized society is a bad idea.

Chicago:

Dave Thomas was getting ready for work Monday afternoon when he heard women screaming in his apartment building in Oswego.

Thomas, a gun instructor, peeked out the door and saw blood in the hallway. He went to his bedroom, where a handgun and an AR-15 assault-style rifle were lying on the bed. He picked up the rifle.

“I teach people how to defend themselves, and it was just a reaction to grab the AR-15,” he said. Police said Thomas confronted a man who was stabbing another man in the apartment complex on the 100 block of Harbor Drive. The man with the knife ran off when Thomas threatened to shoot him.

The victim survived. Thanks to another non-existent good guy with a gun. At least, that's what the gun-grabbers would have you believe; they claim they claim that it almost never happens, but the statistics say otherwise.

 

No Hogg Here

A Houston teenager who applied to all of the top 20 colleges in the U.S. won offers from all of them with a full ride along with $260,000 in additional scholarship offers. Micheael Brown, a 17-year-old senior at Mirabeau B. Lamar High School, opened his first acceptance letter in December at his friend's house to relieve the pressure of doing it before his family.

Michael now has the enviable task of choosing between his top eight choices: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Northwestern, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, Georgetown and Vanderbilt.

Meanwhile, 17 year-old Hogg has been rejected by all four colleges to which he applied. Maybe they don't want his poisonous attitude on campus.

Interestingly, school violence has actually declined over the past couple of decades:

American schools have grown safer over the past two decades along a number of axes, according to a variety of new measures released as a report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) on Thursday.

 

Doing The Jobs Americans Won't Do...

Israel Mercado Mendoza of Creswell, Ore., and Rigoberto Morfin Pedroza of Los Angeles were arrested March 17 following a traffic stop on Interstate 5 in Douglas County, Ore. During the stop, a police dog signaled the presence of drugs in the car. A subsequent search led to the discovery of 74 pounds of meth, the largest seizure in county history, according to the Douglas Interagency Narcotics Team.

Mercado Mendoza and Morfin Pedroza are illegal immigrants, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials. They were taken into custody and detained at the Douglas County Jail, where federal authorities placed immigration detention requests for both men.

They're not "immigrants". They're Mexican nationals. Illegal aliens. And they've lost $400,000 worth of drugs. Repatriate them, and let the cartels handle things from there.

 

And The Nonsense Continues

The Democratic secretary of state in New Mexico thinks voters are incapable of filling out their ballot without help.

Maggie Toulouse Oliver penned an editorial in the Albuquerque Journal advocating for the return of straight-ticket voting, which would allow voters to check one box, such as Democrat, and vote for every Democrat on the ballot.

Oliver argues picking the candidates voters want is "long and complicated," and therefore they need to be told who to vote for based on party.

She said having voters choose every candidate they are voting for is "voter suppression."

Choice is now suppression. But aren't Dems "pro-choice"?

Only when it suits their ends, I guess.

 

Spooky

Democrat, R. Daryl Fisher is a candidate for sheriff in Buncombe County North Carolina, running on the simple platform of “Justice for All.”

Daryl Fisher also says he will kill citizens of his county if they don’t turn over their guns.

In a recent speech Fisher suggested killing people if they don’t turn over their guns.

Daryl Fisher: “Any weapon that is designed for use by the military I think we should ban. You’ve heard people say you have to pry my gun from my cold dead hands. (shrugs) OK”.

Those folks aren't bordering on insane; they're well past that milestone.

 

Mental Cases

A stay-at-home mom from Maryland felt “overwhelmed” caring for her autistic son, so she allegedly tried to cut his head off with a saw because he “needed to die,” according to reports.

That seems more than a little extreme; that woman needs to be committed to a psych institution, but no - she's facing life in prison. If she lived in Florida, they'd haul her off for a mental evaluation, but Democratics don't believe in that sort of thing.

 

California, Again

(Reuters) - Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O) and other coffee sellers must put a cancer warning on coffee sold in California, a Los Angeles judge has ruled, possibly exposing the companies to millions of dollars in fines.

A little-known not-for-profit group sued some 90 coffee retailers, including Starbucks, on grounds they were violating a California law requiring companies to warn consumers of chemicals in their products that could cause cancer.

One of those chemicals is acrylamide, a byproduct of roasting coffee beans that is present in high levels in brewed coffee.

Hell, in California, air could cause cancer. Maybe they could just sell raw beans and roasters - California's now growing coffee beans, so hey - but the panty-twisters would probably sue to require labels on both. According to a statement released by the National Coffee Association:

“Cancer warning labels on coffee would be misleading. The U.S. government’s own Dietary Guidelines state that coffee can be part of a healthy lifestyle,” the NCA statement said.

That place, with the exception of non-coastal areas, gets nuttier by the day.

 

Perfect "Parents"

The lesbian mothers who died on Monday along with at least three of their six adopted children after plunging 100ft over a coastal cliff in California had been reported to Child Protective Services days earlier for allegedly starving their kids.

Days before their bodies were found at the bottom of a cliff in California, neighbors called CPS in Washington to report Jennifer and Sarah Hart (above) for not feeding their six adopted kids. On Friday, their 15-year-old son Devonte (seen center, right) went to a neighbor's house begging for food. They fled hours later after refusing to open the door for a CPS worker.

On Friday, neighbors of Jennifer and Sarah Hart, both 39, called CPS to report that their son Devonte had come to their home asking for food every day for a week.

He claimed that the women were "punishing" him by not feeding him. The girl at the far left, Sierra, was 12, though looked about seven, and had no front teeth. She, Devonte, and 16 year-old Hannah have not been found, but both of the lesbians and three other kids died when their 2003 GMC Sierra truck was apparently deliberately driven off a 100-foot cliff near Westport, California, off Highway 101, some 600 miles from their Washington home. No skid marks or signs of braking to prevent the vehicle from going over the cliff were observed by Mendocino County Sheriffs personnel.

They seem to have moved around a lot; in 2011, Sarah Hart (pictured in the middle, above) plead guilty to domestic assault in Minnesota. Later, they turned up in West Linn, Oregon and then moved to Woodland, Washington.

Their West Linn neighbor says the kids were seldom seen outside the house, and were supposedly home-schooled. Nobody seems to know what the "mothers" did for a living.

Following the latest run-in with CPS, they fled to California, evidently preferring murder-suicide to facing the music.  They had to put some real effort into it, too:

Since they were likely heading south on the Pacific Coast Highway, they'd have had to make a hard right turn to get into the overlook pullout.

Perhaps the three missing kids weren't in the truck when it was driven over the edge of the cliff. That would seem to make sense, as 8 people crammed into a 15 year old 2 door extended cab truck would make for a really cramped 600 mile ride to death.