I am going to try to de-convolute something that is so convoluted I’m having trouble even spelling “convoluted.” I will begin with a summary of facts, and then discuss them in more detail.
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I am going to try to de-convolute something that is so convoluted I’m having trouble even spelling “convoluted.” I will begin with a summary of facts, and then discuss them in more detail.
The FBI announced that they arrested a white supremacist who was planning to blow up a synagogue. [slate]
and says “nice weld.” Or something.
As they say “a bad day fishing is better than a good day at work.” So I can hardly complain. But I’m going to make some whiny noises anyway.
Since this is a sermon/rant, I am going to relax some of my rules of engagement and make some assertions that I think are reasonably supportable – but I may not bother supporting them. We can discuss them in comments if you want to challenge them. Otherwise it’s difficult to write without producing a great big bodge of anti-{skeptical trope} defences to head off pyrhhonian challenges.
I think I’m going to stop here.
This is interesting stuff. For one thing, it does a good job of showing the extreme lengths that you must go to to obtain even tiny amounts of plutonium.
A few years ago, several companies started producing luggage that had built-in power distribution systems and high capacity batteries. Naturally, the Department of Homeland Security concluded they looked too bomb-like and banned them from flights. Never mind that I could just as easily put a tactical(tm) battery in my Maxpedition tactical(tm) shoulder bag, and have a rat’s nest of wires in it, the new bags were not acceptable.
Another overcast day; the evenings the temperature has been down around freezing, and it’s 50 during the daytime. This is my favorite time of year since I am neither hot nor cold – I’m usually active enough to stay warm or I’m wrapped up in a big polartec bathrobe.
I would have enjoyed a version of this recorded by Christopher Lee, too.
As Ray Wylie Hubbard says: “if you go dark, stay dark.”