“The research Jan was involved in is part of the agency’s Revolutionizing Prosthetics program, which is ongoing and aims to continue increasing functionality of systems so service members with arm loss may one day have the option of choosing to return to duty,” Adams added.
This may mean that mind-controlled robotic replacement prosthetics could be ready for issue in the near future. Adams said that the dexterous hand capabilities developed under the program have already been applied to small bomb disposal robotics, which should help keep soldiers out of life-and-limb-threatening situations.
FK – One wonders what the ‘watchers’ were capable of when we were still chasing our food and fighting cave bears for the left overs.
Writes The Associated Press on March 8, via Fox News: “The Utah Department of Public Safety imposed the discipline in December on Rob Wilkinson, a Utah Highway Patrol sergeant, and Justin Hansen, a State Bureau of Investigation agent. Wilkinson, who received a three-day suspension, and Hansen, who received a one-day suspension, were at the Big Shot Ranch near Grantsville in June when British bikini models posed for photos and were videotaped firing guns for a calendar called ‘Hot Shots.’”
Wilkinson and Hansen each were cited for “bringing discredit” to the force, and because they actually appeared in the related video made by “Hot Shots,” for “wearing their uniform during a promotion for a product.”
FK – We know what the ‘product’ is but what are they really selling?
The queen and the “Liberal”(commie) trash in their govt. were probably angry that some of their subjects got to touch a weapon of any kind, that not being the best way to keep us enslaved.
Over here it’s about simple human biology and envy…
Any publicity is good publicity?
Don’t watch this unless you want your man card punched:
FK – I’m thinking I may have posted this a few months back when the story about the guardsmen broke. Oh well, it didn’t hurt me to watch it twice.
“The Special Advisory letter claims that in 2011 a Polish made 5.45×39 Onyks 89S pistol was submitted for import approval by an unspecified entity,” The Bang Switch reported at the time. “It’s so obscure in fact that only 200 were produced in Poland and to my knowledge none were ever imported nor sold on the U.S. market as semi-automatic pistols.”
That hardly matters when the criteria being argued about include concepts like “sporting purposes.” The term appears nowhere in the Constitution, and its first documented enforcement over firearms was in 1938 German law. Likewise, the Constitution is similarly silent on any branch of government, let alone a federal agency, having legitimate delegated authority to override the clear “shall not be infringed” mandate in the Second Amendment.
As for potential armor-piercing capability, the opinion rendered in the Supreme Court’s 1939 Miller decision provides guidance on founding intent. The court held a weapon falls under Second Amendment protection if it “is any part of the ordinary military equipment, or that its use could contribute to the common defense.”
FK – The only ‘sporting purpose’ to the Second Amendment is when the “Liberal”(commie) and other assorted authoritarian trash runs or shoots back.
FK – They’ll be baaacckk. You can count on it. The only ultimate solution to this internal/infernal war being waged on Human Liberty and the Bill of Rights will be doing what will be required. After all these years so many are still brain deep in denial of this simple reality.
This information drastically underrepresented the number of people being killed at hands of police officers thus giving an unclear perspective of what is actually transpiring on the streets of America.
New data, as reported by the Guardian, suggests that an average of 545 people killed by police went unaccounted for yearly on average in the FBI data.
The revised estimates put the annual number of people killed by cops at an average of 928 per year over the past eight years; a conservative estimate. This information contrasts with the 461 reported killed by police by the FBI for 2013, a difference of almost 450 killings or nearly 50 percent.
When looking at terrorism, the U.S. Department of State reports that only 16 non-military U.S. citizens were killed worldwide as a result of terrorism in 2013, the most recent year data there was available data.
What this means is that a U.S. citizen is actually 58 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist.
FK – Organized taxpayer funded terror is called war…
The ATF has issued a press release calling it a “publishing error” that has “no legal impact on the validity of the exemptions.” The agency says the regulations guide will be corrected in PDF format, but that may not satisfy a growing number of angry gun owners, many of whom think it is time for the agency to go.
Those gun owners have company on Capitol Hill. Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner has, according to The Hill, revived his legislation to abolish the ATF and incorporate its duties into other federal agencies.
FK – It’s been obvious for two decades that we needed to eradicate that trash: de-fund it, repeal the evil laws it enforces, try it’s badged and armed bureaucrats for treason against the Bill of Rights and execute them then distribute their retirement funds amongst their enemies so I don’t really understand the question in the headline.
At the end of the day they attacked the Branch Davidian compound there should’ve been black-suited Nazis hanging along Texas highways for the world to see, but I and many others were asleep back then, stupidly assuming the gooburment had a reason for burning children they later claimed they went there to save when it wasn’t even in their jurisdiction to do so.
The fact that the perpetrators of that crime are still mostly vertical shows we exist in a nation of cowardly apathetic whores.
OK, but so what? What does any of that have to do with gun rights?
Really? Being a keystone objective of the anti-gun “progressives,” the Obama administration, and the Democrat party, which includes things like a renewed “assault weapon” ban in its national platform isn’t enough? How about the fact that all credible polling shows not only will this result in overwhelming support for the Democrats, but also that this population is overwhelmingly (71 to 25 percent) in favor of more government controls on guns?
Yet curiously, with the threat this has of undoing all legislative and judicial gains in gun rights enjoyed to date, especially through the confirmation of judges who will then be in a position to reverse such wins, only Gun Owners of America has consistently been sounding this alarm. Out of the national gun groups, only GOA intends to score politicians on amnesty.
FK – When will enough force themselves to understand that this is a war and our guns are only the tools we will ultimately need to do what will be required?
FK – The communists don’t care about crime. Crime is a red herring. It’s about the WAR they are waging against human Liberty and their desire to disarm us so that we have no way to kill them when enough finally awaken to the necessity of doing what will be required.
See what the global communist insurgency and their elitist masters have reduced the Brits to:
FK – I like how he says “Squorral.”
The Brits are ‘allowed’ to hunt four-legged animals with their bolt-action rifles and over and under shotguns. There is no recognition of their natural born right, duty and responsibility to hunt and eradicate the two-legged animals that reduced them to their present state.
We must let our animals know we won’t tolerate such at the pain of their deaths.
FK – The old farmers around here had it right. They used to say “They changed the time ’cause them doctors wanted to play golf.”
The next county over is central time. The old folks would call it ‘fast time’ and ‘slow time.’ Many in that county seat kept their clocks on Eastern time because they had jobs in our county seat.
It never bothered me that much one way or another, except I was shocked when I turned my computer on this morning and it read 8 am or so.
….and damn I envy that cat. Of course it’s probably been fixed.
FK – Gee, maybe this explains why millions of idiots vote for liars every 4 years that tell them the same lies the past liars told them and expect different results. Oh, sorry, that’s insanity.
Voting in presidential elections is kinda like blowing on warts:
FK – Here’s some modern folklore – Our tech will save/protect us:
FK – I’ve already forgotten about the white bear. What does that mean?
All characters in plays are abstracts. Spock’s sacrifice is something most don’t understand. The Federation is a military order. In war soldiers often report they’re fighting for their brethren in war, not some higher cause.
Watching the original series re-runs beat going to church on Sundays after I got old enough to begin to see through that bravo sierra. It gave far more hope for the human race than billions being burned alive in fire forever.
I didn’t realize then how over-acted/overdone the acting/dialogue was. Ditto for the 90s version. Now I think I prefer the older one as the FX seem less hokey now and more nostalgic. Voyager was PC crap.
As the former New York City mayor noted, Obama’s grandfather turned him over to Davis for mentoring. His black father had taken off and his mother was mostly spending her time elsewhere. But the question remains: what kind of influence are we talking about? Paul Kengor’s book, The Communist: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor, explains Davis’s influence on Obama’s economic views. Rusty Weiss and I quoted Kengor in a piece we did on how Davis’s anti-white racism also influenced Obama.
Less well-known is how Obama adopted Davis’s outlook on sexual matters.
Davis, who died in 1987, was a heavy drinker and marijuana user who wrote a pornographic novel, Sex Rebel, disclosing that he had sex with children, including a 13-year-old girl.
FK – This article and another it links to are interesting and useful but gets turned into a rant on ‘gay marriage.’
What’s amusing/ironic about the ‘gay marriage’ issue is that most of the homos fighting for it are “Liberals”(commies) who have no problem going to big govt. and begging ‘permission’ to be ‘legally’ joined to the person they ‘love’ while many to most of those opposed will also claim to be small govt. ‘conservatives’ who ignore the fact that marriage was once a purview of the church and the church alone. But they have no problem allowing the govt. to decide who’s ‘married’ or not.
I don’t know all the ins and outs of the legalities of ‘same-sex marriage’ as it probably varies from state to state anyway. It’s probably already possible to make almost anyone your beneficiary or power of attorney in most situations anyway. The corporations should be forced to deal with people in whatever way their cusomters wish. The insurance companies in particular are making billions off the fear of the sheeple anyway.
Anyone should be able to name anyone else anything they want at any time, if we exist in a free country. But the homos and the ‘church ladies’ have gotten wound up in a pissing contest over whose god, govt. or some sadistic asshole, is in charge of all our lives. If we existed in a ‘free country,’ world, universe, dimension, whatever, we would be.
This is the best and most informative line from the second article:
“For Communists like Robeson, “democracy” was a codeword for communism.”
Yep, that’s what it is. “Democracy is the road to socialism.” – Karl Marx
The commies sometimes point out real issues, it’s their solutions that are usually evil. One doesn’t replace heart disease with cancer and claim to have really accomplished anything other than providing a longer existence under greater misery.
