Yeah, but then you can’t ignore, y’know, the salaried managers of the ruling class.
Actually, I would expect to find some considerable overlap between the TP and the SC.
The kind who has no access to military-grade explosives, but easy access to the same chemicals you can find in any high-school lab – or, simply, to gunpowder? (I’ve heard you can find it in some gun stores; black-powder shooting is a specialized hobby for primitivists, like bow-hunting.)
You can buy ordinary gunpowder in most gun stores as well, not just black powder.
Many target shooters load their own ammunition in order to precisely control the amount of powder and achieve repeatable, consistent results in competition (commercial ammunition with the desirable level of precision is very expensive, if available at all). Additionally, many recreational shooters re-load their own spent casings to save money.
Interestingly, gunpowder is almost impossible to buy nowadays because of the ongoing gun control hysteria - all stores in my area are constantly sold out. Not sure about black powder, though.
This just appeared on the WSJ website.
Man, I hope it’s the same wackjob, this will undoubtedly help catch the bastard.
Who the fuck is Roger Wicker? R-Mississippi, apparently, but I’ve never heard of him.
It was pointed out on the radio this afternoon (I was listening to NPR, so whatever show they’re airing at 5 pm), that although this type of bomb has been used by Al Qaeda, instructions to make them are readily available on the internet and rightwing groups in the U.S. have been known to distribute those instructions to their members. So, still not a direct pointer to any particular group.
It’s definitely a teabagger, then. They’re systematically going after politicians such as Roger Wicker - (D - Mississippi). If they had been targetting Republicans then it may have been questionable.
The difference being?
Especially since the pressure cooker bomb has been around far longer than the recent unpleasantness in Afghanistan. A bomb squad officer in New York was killed trying to disarm a pressure cooker bomb in 1976, attributed to a Croatian freedom group.
I can’t tell if this is a joke.
Modern smokeless powder is different from old-fashioned cap-and-ball black powder. Burns a lot faster, as well as producing less smoke (and flame.)
I can’t, either. I just love needling Fox about their penchant for misidentifying party membership. I’ll probably be in my 80s and still making jokes about in on the Hypermindweb.
Black powder has a lower energy density (a factor of almost 3 IIRC) and produces a whole bunch of solid residues (soot). Modern (“smokeless”) powder does not. They are chemically different.
It is rather confusing, because technically “gunpowder” refers to black powder, and “smokeless powder” or “cordite” refers to the modern stuff, but since almost no new firearm design since about 1875 has actually used black powder, most people just call smokeless powder “gunpowder”. Smokeless powder was invented/discovered around 1850 IIRC, whereas black powder was discovered back in the 8th century or something.
So, when the WSJ reports the bombs used black powder, and the NYT reports gunpowder, it is still totally unclear what was actually used.
Also, smokeless powder is almost useless as an explosive while black powder blows up real good.
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Mike Royko, who won a Pulitzer Prize, and for some years wrote commentary for the Chicago Sun Time. Murdoch bought the paper and Royko jumped ship to the rival Chicago Tribune, saying “No self-respecting fish would want to be wrapped in a Murdoch paper”
Who will pit “Family Guy” for predicting Boston marathon bombing?
I can’t find anything else in his record that would make him a target, unless he has a particularly lackadaisical record taking care of constituent complaints about late Social Security checks or whatever.
Explosives? I guess the instructions for brewing up dioxygen difluoride were just too difficult.
Pure oxygen, gaseous fluorine, a stove that can heat to 700 Celsius – who doesn’t have all that in their kitchen, for pity’s sake?! It’s not rocket science. (Well, not unless the pressure-cooker springs a leak . . .)