http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/04/08/us-wont-be-returning-to-moon-nasa-chief-says/?intcmp=features#ixzz2PszH1DHe
So NASA won't be going back to the moon.
I'm so angry right now, I could spit.
Someday, the US government will have to get to the moon. They'll hopefully be catching a ride to the moon on a privately owned launch system.
We won't be going to asteroids or Mars either.
The Russians, Chinese, or a private company might.
NASA is a dinosaur. Not a live, fearsome one - it's a museum piece of a failing state.
Now I'm REALLY grouchy.
Crazed American, OUT.
08 April 2013
06 April 2013
A letter to a friend (North Korea - gaming)
He posed a question to me:
Suppose the North Koreans (NorKs) wanted to really crimp our style in the Pacific, re: Power Projection (hitting Navy and Air Force).
They'd throw a couple of Crude atom bombs in a couple of merchant ships and get them near Guam, Diego Garcia and Yokohama, Japan.
Follow my response down the rabbit hole:
Been following that curve all the way down a very deep and dark rabbit hole.
Two DPRK subs are also unaccounted for.
Also, remember in December when they launched a satellite? We immediately said it was tumbling, out of control. Fail, DPRK?
Not so fast...
http://n2yo.com/?s=39026
Not bad for a failed satellite, big enough to contain a significant thermonuclear warhead. Polar orbit, it passes over the US 2-3 times a day. 250- 500 kt detonated at 300 miles above Nebraska, it would result in a High-energy ElectroMagnetic Pulse event (Compton Scattering Effect - thanks physics) which would render the US power grid DEAD for months / years (would take a while to replace every transformer, relay and substation in all three of the US's electrical grids).
That, in conjunction with some timely merchant ships spontaneously fissioning in a few pacific ports, Guam, Diego Garcia and Yokohama, Japan (Home port of the USS George Washington), and an all out artillery barrage on Seoul, and the surrounding installations, SF raids on targets deeper in South Korea, you have the makings of a damn depressing 2013.
Hit the bases at Guam, Diego and Yokohama, and you pretty much negate the majority of air and naval capability for a while, at least until you can consolidate advances into SK.
But, going down the rabbit hole a little deeper: lets say that this war is the pretext of something larger, something more sinister, with strings being pulled by the greater power currently massing troops on the border of North Korea? China wants no refugees, does not want the war to spread into the mainland of the Middle Kingdom. What if the true goal is for the world to drastically reduce the power and power projection ability of the West (US and allies). We're broke, in hock to them for trillions, and we'll never, ever be able to repay it. How do they reduce the debt on their books and not have the Chinese population (Chinese save money and their savings are invested in American debt) rise up in revolt? How to maintain the Mandate of Heaven?
I started writing a book back in 2002... I'm about 300 and change pages into it... deals with this very subject.
There's a bunch of ways this can go - none of them good. 10 April 2013 - the date the NorKs told the embassies all to be cleared out of Pyongyang.
I love history, but I'm realizing I hate living through the "big stuff".
We suffer the Chinese Curse: We live in "Interesting Times"
Crazed American, out.
Suppose the North Koreans (NorKs) wanted to really crimp our style in the Pacific, re: Power Projection (hitting Navy and Air Force).
They'd throw a couple of Crude atom bombs in a couple of merchant ships and get them near Guam, Diego Garcia and Yokohama, Japan.
Follow my response down the rabbit hole:
Been following that curve all the way down a very deep and dark rabbit hole.
Two DPRK subs are also unaccounted for.
Also, remember in December when they launched a satellite? We immediately said it was tumbling, out of control. Fail, DPRK?
Not so fast...
http://n2yo.com/?s=39026
Not bad for a failed satellite, big enough to contain a significant thermonuclear warhead. Polar orbit, it passes over the US 2-3 times a day. 250- 500 kt detonated at 300 miles above Nebraska, it would result in a High-energy ElectroMagnetic Pulse event (Compton Scattering Effect - thanks physics) which would render the US power grid DEAD for months / years (would take a while to replace every transformer, relay and substation in all three of the US's electrical grids).
That, in conjunction with some timely merchant ships spontaneously fissioning in a few pacific ports, Guam, Diego Garcia and Yokohama, Japan (Home port of the USS George Washington), and an all out artillery barrage on Seoul, and the surrounding installations, SF raids on targets deeper in South Korea, you have the makings of a damn depressing 2013.
Hit the bases at Guam, Diego and Yokohama, and you pretty much negate the majority of air and naval capability for a while, at least until you can consolidate advances into SK.
But, going down the rabbit hole a little deeper: lets say that this war is the pretext of something larger, something more sinister, with strings being pulled by the greater power currently massing troops on the border of North Korea? China wants no refugees, does not want the war to spread into the mainland of the Middle Kingdom. What if the true goal is for the world to drastically reduce the power and power projection ability of the West (US and allies). We're broke, in hock to them for trillions, and we'll never, ever be able to repay it. How do they reduce the debt on their books and not have the Chinese population (Chinese save money and their savings are invested in American debt) rise up in revolt? How to maintain the Mandate of Heaven?
I started writing a book back in 2002... I'm about 300 and change pages into it... deals with this very subject.
There's a bunch of ways this can go - none of them good. 10 April 2013 - the date the NorKs told the embassies all to be cleared out of Pyongyang.
I love history, but I'm realizing I hate living through the "big stuff".
We suffer the Chinese Curse: We live in "Interesting Times"
Crazed American, out.
03 April 2013
Rule 762 - Chinese Corrolary
Rule 762 - the Chinese will NOT allow 2-3 million desperate, starving, illiterate,cholera and dysentery laden North Korean Refugees into China proper. They will be shunted off into internment camps, or...
Rule 762.
The 7.62x54mm Rimmed Cartridge is the Standard General Purpose Machine Gun round of the PLA.
War with South Korea and the US will cause a mass influx of starved, desperate people running into China. The Chinese are taking steps...
This is not going to end well.
Crazed American, out.
P.S. Remember that "out of control", "tumbling" North Korean Satellite that they launched last month, then stopped reporting about?
Polar Orbit, goes right over the United States a couple times a day... Not saying it's the case, but I I were a cantankerous 20-something dictator and wanted to set the United States back a century, and kill 50-90% of the population within a year, and have my name echoed throughout history... That's what I'd do.
EMP, baby. Not saying it's going to happen, but it might.
Rule 762.
The 7.62x54mm Rimmed Cartridge is the Standard General Purpose Machine Gun round of the PLA.
War with South Korea and the US will cause a mass influx of starved, desperate people running into China. The Chinese are taking steps...
This is not going to end well.
Crazed American, out.
P.S. Remember that "out of control", "tumbling" North Korean Satellite that they launched last month, then stopped reporting about?
Polar Orbit, goes right over the United States a couple times a day... Not saying it's the case, but I I were a cantankerous 20-something dictator and wanted to set the United States back a century, and kill 50-90% of the population within a year, and have my name echoed throughout history... That's what I'd do.
EMP, baby. Not saying it's going to happen, but it might.
28 March 2013
OMG!!! THE BLUE HELMETS ARE COMING!!!
...or how I learned to stop worrying and come to love the new Globalist Utopia.
Folks, the UN has released the final version of it's international arms trade treaty.
I have read it and I have come to the conclusion that it, and a buck, won't buy you a cup of coffee at Starbucks. It's the UN's version of Busywork for Bureaucrats.
I'm no legal scholar, not an expert in treaties, but the Crazed American does actually possess a piece of paper here in BaseCamp Ponderosa that indicates a certain place of higher learning in a far off, flat land conferred upon me a degree in International Affairs. I wasn't a terribly good student, but I learned me some interesting knowledge.
Having read the firestorm of fear and paranoia coming out of the pro-gun press (of which I count myself part of, BTW), and having read the entire text of the treaty (twice), allow me to distill what I know about what this treaty means to anyone:
JACK-F---ING-S#!+
It has no teeth, can do nothing. Even if it did authorize the UN to build a force to go into the USofA and confiscate all of it's scary weapons, what would be the result? This will have zero effect on the global arms trade - legal or illegal. It merely creates a new avenue for bribes from arms merchants to bureaucrats! What do you think could happen? Some Belgian Blue-Hats would pour off of landing craft on the Atlantic Coast, and...? What could they do?
We (pro-2A media) all need to take a deep breath on this. This UN treaty is about the inter-State (national governments) transfer of arms. Even if G-d Himself blessed the NGO bureaucrats with a window of non-corrupt and efficient thinking, how the h-ll could they accomplish such a thing? They can't even come up with effective sanctions against Iran and North Korea. Peacekeeping in Africa? Israeli / Arab relations? The UN is utterly incompetent, and above all, powerless.
As Star Trek fans (again, I count myself as one) will tell you: we just ain't ready for global governance. The Federation wasn't set up as a galactic government - it was a Federation of allied worlds that agreed on specific, terms and guaranteed specific freedoms. As long as member worlds agree to protect the specific freedoms and play nice with the other members, they could do their own thing.
Some of you out there will wonder - What if they use the language of this treaty to further take away our Creator-Endowed Rights? My response - what, like our own clowns in Washington construing the Constitution to allow drone flights and military operations and surveillance domestically? Or the due-process-less incarceration of American Citizens? Or the targeted assassination of American Citizens?Those things could never happen because we have a piece of paper, right?
All this treaty does is set up a bureaucracy none of the member states can afford. So, they won't support it. They'll pay it some lip service, they'll extract some fines from some violators - but nothing will happen. It does not provide any mechanism, unless our own government does it, to restrict American's right to keep and bear arms. The only people who can take our guns away is: US. Not the UN, not scared teenagers from Europe wearing fetching sky-blue helmets.
The Constitution, Articles of Federation, UN Charter, treaties of all sorts - they're all pieces of paper - social contracts - codified agreements between people. They, like the people who sign them and the ideas they embody are not permanent, not immutable.
They all have to be renegotiated. Those negotiations can either be nice and civil... or bloody and terrible.
There is a foul portent of the future, of the "civilized" world. This treaty ain't anything to worry about.
There's much bigger fish to fry,
MOLON LABE,
Crazed American, Out.
Folks, the UN has released the final version of it's international arms trade treaty.
I have read it and I have come to the conclusion that it, and a buck, won't buy you a cup of coffee at Starbucks. It's the UN's version of Busywork for Bureaucrats.
I'm no legal scholar, not an expert in treaties, but the Crazed American does actually possess a piece of paper here in BaseCamp Ponderosa that indicates a certain place of higher learning in a far off, flat land conferred upon me a degree in International Affairs. I wasn't a terribly good student, but I learned me some interesting knowledge.
Having read the firestorm of fear and paranoia coming out of the pro-gun press (of which I count myself part of, BTW), and having read the entire text of the treaty (twice), allow me to distill what I know about what this treaty means to anyone:
JACK-F---ING-S#!+
It has no teeth, can do nothing. Even if it did authorize the UN to build a force to go into the USofA and confiscate all of it's scary weapons, what would be the result? This will have zero effect on the global arms trade - legal or illegal. It merely creates a new avenue for bribes from arms merchants to bureaucrats! What do you think could happen? Some Belgian Blue-Hats would pour off of landing craft on the Atlantic Coast, and...? What could they do?
We (pro-2A media) all need to take a deep breath on this. This UN treaty is about the inter-State (national governments) transfer of arms. Even if G-d Himself blessed the NGO bureaucrats with a window of non-corrupt and efficient thinking, how the h-ll could they accomplish such a thing? They can't even come up with effective sanctions against Iran and North Korea. Peacekeeping in Africa? Israeli / Arab relations? The UN is utterly incompetent, and above all, powerless.
As Star Trek fans (again, I count myself as one) will tell you: we just ain't ready for global governance. The Federation wasn't set up as a galactic government - it was a Federation of allied worlds that agreed on specific, terms and guaranteed specific freedoms. As long as member worlds agree to protect the specific freedoms and play nice with the other members, they could do their own thing.
Some of you out there will wonder - What if they use the language of this treaty to further take away our Creator-Endowed Rights? My response - what, like our own clowns in Washington construing the Constitution to allow drone flights and military operations and surveillance domestically? Or the due-process-less incarceration of American Citizens? Or the targeted assassination of American Citizens?Those things could never happen because we have a piece of paper, right?
All this treaty does is set up a bureaucracy none of the member states can afford. So, they won't support it. They'll pay it some lip service, they'll extract some fines from some violators - but nothing will happen. It does not provide any mechanism, unless our own government does it, to restrict American's right to keep and bear arms. The only people who can take our guns away is: US. Not the UN, not scared teenagers from Europe wearing fetching sky-blue helmets.
The Constitution, Articles of Federation, UN Charter, treaties of all sorts - they're all pieces of paper - social contracts - codified agreements between people. They, like the people who sign them and the ideas they embody are not permanent, not immutable.
They all have to be renegotiated. Those negotiations can either be nice and civil... or bloody and terrible.
There is a foul portent of the future, of the "civilized" world. This treaty ain't anything to worry about.
There's much bigger fish to fry,
MOLON LABE,
Crazed American, Out.
20 March 2013
Yep, I, the Crazed American...
...am a fan of Senator Harry Reid.
If the legions of loyal Crazed American readers will recall:
http://troaca.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-law-of-unintended-consequences-of.html
Now: The travesty that was Senator Feinstein's patently un-Constitutional gun-grab is pretty much, as promised DOA - it can be reintroduced as an amendment.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/Decoder-Wire/2013/0319/Assault-weapons-ban-now-unlikely-to-pass.-What-happened
I stated that Senator Reid ain't such a bad guy. He has a solid record of defending the Second Amendment. Before I have stated that I disagree with 99% of everything he does. No longer true - we'll call it 75% (and that would go to 50% if he could get the Senate to start pushing to pass a budget). He is between a rock and a hard place. He is a politician, so there is that. I'll not say a bad thing about him and will now defend him in front of my "less than open minded" associates.
Today is a good day,
Crazed American, out.
UPDATE!!
I take it all back. He's an idiot. Throughout history - imagined tyranny has had a very bad habit of cropping up as quite real tyrrany, given the room to flourish.
REID: In the 1920s, organized crime was committing murders with machine guns. So Congress dramatically limited the sale and transfer of machine guns. As a result, machine guns all but disappeared from the streets. We can and should take the same common-sense approach to safeguard Americans from modern weapons of war.
That is why I will vote for Senator Dianne Feinstein’s assault weapons ban – because we must strike a better balance between the right to defend ourselves and the right of every child in America to grow up safe from gun violence. I will vote for the ban because maintaining law and order is more important than satisfying conspiracy theorists who believe in black helicopters and false flags. And I will vote for the ban because saving the lives of young police officers and innocent civilians is more important than preventing imagined tyranny.
If the legions of loyal Crazed American readers will recall:
http://troaca.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-law-of-unintended-consequences-of.html
Now: The travesty that was Senator Feinstein's patently un-Constitutional gun-grab is pretty much, as promised DOA - it can be reintroduced as an amendment.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/Decoder-Wire/2013/0319/Assault-weapons-ban-now-unlikely-to-pass.-What-happened
I stated that Senator Reid ain't such a bad guy. He has a solid record of defending the Second Amendment. Before I have stated that I disagree with 99% of everything he does. No longer true - we'll call it 75% (and that would go to 50% if he could get the Senate to start pushing to pass a budget). He is between a rock and a hard place. He is a politician, so there is that. I'll not say a bad thing about him and will now defend him in front of my "less than open minded" associates.
Today is a good day,
Crazed American, out.
UPDATE!!
I take it all back. He's an idiot. Throughout history - imagined tyranny has had a very bad habit of cropping up as quite real tyrrany, given the room to flourish.
REID: In the 1920s, organized crime was committing murders with machine guns. So Congress dramatically limited the sale and transfer of machine guns. As a result, machine guns all but disappeared from the streets. We can and should take the same common-sense approach to safeguard Americans from modern weapons of war.
That is why I will vote for Senator Dianne Feinstein’s assault weapons ban – because we must strike a better balance between the right to defend ourselves and the right of every child in America to grow up safe from gun violence. I will vote for the ban because maintaining law and order is more important than satisfying conspiracy theorists who believe in black helicopters and false flags. And I will vote for the ban because saving the lives of young police officers and innocent civilians is more important than preventing imagined tyranny.
19 March 2013
Yesterday, Cypress...
Today: NEW ZEALAND
I'm telling you, folks. If you don't have tangibles, then physical cash becomes king.
They're talking that they can't figure out the mechanism to sidestep standard FDIC-style banking rules and insurance. Deposits under EUR 100,000 are safe, supposedly... For now. So the rich, investor class is going to get hit for 10% (at least, for now).
Someone want to clue me in on how 1) this helps, or 2) it ever gets better before complete default?
It ain't all us, Americans. As bad as we think we have it, the rest of the world is worse.
Ay Caramba.
Crazed American, out.
I'm telling you, folks. If you don't have tangibles, then physical cash becomes king.
They're talking that they can't figure out the mechanism to sidestep standard FDIC-style banking rules and insurance. Deposits under EUR 100,000 are safe, supposedly... For now. So the rich, investor class is going to get hit for 10% (at least, for now).
Someone want to clue me in on how 1) this helps, or 2) it ever gets better before complete default?
It ain't all us, Americans. As bad as we think we have it, the rest of the world is worse.
Ay Caramba.
Crazed American, out.
18 March 2013
Thread-bare...
When this happens... you're pretty much f---ed. Writing is officially on the wall.
All people in Western countries take note. When your government gets broke enough, you will be on the hook for the butcher's bill.
So understand what it means. The Cypriots are so broke, that in order for the other nations of the EU to continue to prop up their floundering economy, the banks in Cyprus have to impose a 10% "tax" on all bank holdings. That's right, if you had any money in the bank, gathering a criminally small amount of interest, over the weekend, the government ordered the banks to pony up a 10% haircut on all of it.
Hey, fellow Americans - before you get that Smuggy McSmuggerSmug look on your face, know this - when they do it here (and they will do it) they won't hit bank accounts first. They'll hit investments and especially 401K's and IRA's. Look for there to be an announcement of a new Federal 401K / IRA like plan to be announced shortly.
Me? I got out of the market and cashed out the 401K long ago - 2007, before the crash... best decision I ever made. Cash ain't bad. Old fashioned devices like CD's ain't bad.
Stay frosty, friends. This is not a good development.
Crazed American, OUT.
All people in Western countries take note. When your government gets broke enough, you will be on the hook for the butcher's bill.
So understand what it means. The Cypriots are so broke, that in order for the other nations of the EU to continue to prop up their floundering economy, the banks in Cyprus have to impose a 10% "tax" on all bank holdings. That's right, if you had any money in the bank, gathering a criminally small amount of interest, over the weekend, the government ordered the banks to pony up a 10% haircut on all of it.
Hey, fellow Americans - before you get that Smuggy McSmuggerSmug look on your face, know this - when they do it here (and they will do it) they won't hit bank accounts first. They'll hit investments and especially 401K's and IRA's. Look for there to be an announcement of a new Federal 401K / IRA like plan to be announced shortly.
Me? I got out of the market and cashed out the 401K long ago - 2007, before the crash... best decision I ever made. Cash ain't bad. Old fashioned devices like CD's ain't bad.
Stay frosty, friends. This is not a good development.
Crazed American, OUT.
26 February 2013
Intolerable Acts
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/crime/fl-helium-balloon-environmental-crime-20130222,0,3220328.story
This man released a dozen or so Helium ballons as an act of love. He has been charged with a FELONY act.
At what point, do we as a liberty-loving people say: ENOUGH!
In early American History Indentured Servants had to give between 10-25% of their income to their master.
What's your nominal tax rate?
It is said that every American adult commits an average of three felonies a day.
Yet we need more laws?
Real Change is needed.
This man released a dozen or so Helium ballons as an act of love. He has been charged with a FELONY act.
At what point, do we as a liberty-loving people say: ENOUGH!
In early American History Indentured Servants had to give between 10-25% of their income to their master.
What's your nominal tax rate?
It is said that every American adult commits an average of three felonies a day.
Yet we need more laws?
Real Change is needed.
21 February 2013
The system is working!...?
This Crazed American, spawned in the beautiful, rolling, oppressed lands of the upstate area formerly known as the Can-tu-Kee (Everything West of the Hudson River), but currently known as Upstate New York, is happy to witness opposition to an ill-conceived and rushed series of edicts rubber-stamped by the New York Assembly.
http://thebatavian.com/howard-owens/legislature-poised-call-repeal-cuomos-gun-control-law/36188
Genessee County, and the majority of New York Counties - GOOD ON YOU.
This is how the system is supposed to work, no matter the issue. State and Federal Governments should not be able to run rough-shod all over the will of the people. The New York SAFE Act was rammed through the process - to the point that, in the race to be "FIRST!!" Gov. Cuomo's legislation didn't even take into account that the law didn't even provide exemptions for law enforcement officers. If the New York SAFE act served one purpose, perhaps it was getting the people of New York (not City, that's it's own world)to realize, that hey, we have county governments and we might be able to remind people who seem to think themselves more enlightened and our betters, that we do have a voice. Also, people might realize that maybe, just maybe, we don't need all of this "sterling" "leadership".
So let's see how this goes.
Crazed American, out.
http://thebatavian.com/howard-owens/legislature-poised-call-repeal-cuomos-gun-control-law/36188
Genessee County, and the majority of New York Counties - GOOD ON YOU.
This is how the system is supposed to work, no matter the issue. State and Federal Governments should not be able to run rough-shod all over the will of the people. The New York SAFE Act was rammed through the process - to the point that, in the race to be "FIRST!!" Gov. Cuomo's legislation didn't even take into account that the law didn't even provide exemptions for law enforcement officers. If the New York SAFE act served one purpose, perhaps it was getting the people of New York (not City, that's it's own world)to realize, that hey, we have county governments and we might be able to remind people who seem to think themselves more enlightened and our betters, that we do have a voice. Also, people might realize that maybe, just maybe, we don't need all of this "sterling" "leadership".
So let's see how this goes.
Crazed American, out.
12 February 2013
So, there's this...
The article is interesting. Comments are where the gold is: people calling out NASA for being at best obtuse, at worst covering up.
I love how the article shows examples "similar" on earth that are not remotely similar...
Why not get the rover over to it and take some damn samples?!?
AAAHHHH!!! I AM TIRED OF THEM TREATING US LIKE IDIOTS.
If it's nothing, take the damn "Curiosity" over to it and, oh, I don't know, be CURIOUS!! Prove to me that it's nothing. Or, we'll just treat it like every other "Light and Shadow" anomaly that might be something.
It's called science for a reason. You have the most capable autonomic device in history RIGHT FUCKING THERE!! Go over to it, look at it with the chem cam, get right up next to it.
If you don't then the conspiracy theories abound. Kill a few of the theories, please. Prove us wrong.
Unless you can't and that's the whole point.
Crazed American. Out.
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