Femen: Tit-Flashing, Bigoted, Femi-Nazis

FEMEN, have made the 4 April Topless Jihad Day demanding the right of Tunisian Amina Tyler to flash her tits and not be forced to wear the hijab and demanding her immediate release.

Strangely enough, Amina Tyler isn’t in custody, she hasn’t been charged with any criminal offence, and contrary to the wishes of some reactionary fanatical Muslim clerics won’t be stoned or flogged, and she can even walk around Tunisia without wearing a headscarf. In fact, until it was illegal for a woman to wear a headscarf and it still is in Tunisian schools.  So what exactly are they protesting or are they just faith baiting?

All of FEMEN protests are topless, because like PETA, they “would rather go naked” than be ignored. They claim that they display their bodies to assert that they own them… as opposed to being are attention-seeking flashers. So it;s ironic that their main campaign is against women’s right to own their own bodies. They want to criminalise prostitution, which they bizarrely liken to fascism. It doesn’t occur to them that women sell sex through choice.

FEMEN has a more sinister side, they have threatened to track down and castrate ten French men acquitted of gang rape, which makes them the epitome of a Femi-Nazis. There idea of justice is cutting off a man balls and leaving him to bleed to death on nothing more than the accusing of rape. Although, I suspect that some of their activists would happily cut off a man’s ball just for having sex with a prostitute.

C’était un Rendezvous

In 1976  Claude Lelouch made a short film called C’était un Rendezvous (it’s a date), which consisted of a short drive through Paris in a  Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6.9  to the soundtrack of a Ferrari 275GTB V-12 engine. The premise of the story is that a young man meeting his bird. Obviously he ‘s wants to be up to his nuts in guts before the date’s over but he know if he keeps her waiting she’s less likely to spread her legs. So he puts foot down.

The brilliant thing about this film is that it was done in one shot. No roads were closed. No permission was sought. Claude Lelouch just put foot down and taught the world that driving at 230 km/h wasn’t dangerous.

So why I am posting this? Do you need a reason?

Well alright then. I’ve driven faster than that on motorcycles and in cars around the streets of  a lot of European cities. I’ve broken speed limits, run through red lights and all without incident. I don’t think we need speed limits or traffic lights because what sort of miserable prick doesn’t exceed the speed limit or run red lights every now and again? All we need is skill and common sense.

Tesla Model S: Overpriced, Slow and Impractical

Tesla’s founder and CEO Elon Musk, threw one of typical hissy fits when motor journalist John M. Broder wrote a critical article of the Tesla Model S in the New York Times article, pointing out that pointing out that it ran out of battery and needing towing. For those who don’t know Musk unsuccessfully tried to sue the BBC for malicious falsehood and libel over of a very fair Top Gear review of the Lotus Elise based Tesla Roadster that they accurately reported couldn’t do more than 55 miles on their track without recharging. The judge threw out both the libel and malicious falsehood actions.  Musk’s accusations against both review is essentially they drove to fast for precious vehicles.

Wait a minute; isn’t the entire point of a sports sedan like the Tesla S that it can be driven fast down the freeway?!!

Apparently not! Or at least not in a Tesla.

The Tesla S can only make its maximum range driving at an asthmatic 55 mph. So if you’re prepared to fork out $52,400 on the entry-level 40 kWh model S you can expect to make a measly 160 miles before the car needs several hours of recharging.  If you can stretch to $62,400 for the mid level 60 kWh model S, you can extend that to a slightly better 230 miles. For an additional $2000 you have it fitted with a supercharger to reduce charging time. The two range topping 85 kWh ($72,400) and 85 kWh Performance  ($87,400) can both manage 300 miles at 55 mph before they need to recharge. They both come with a supercharger as standard. Whoopee!  So if you’re prepared to between $70,000 and $90,000 to drive along the freeway at 55 mph you can make 300 miles on a good day before stopping for several hours to recharge.

Obviously if you’re travelling at 80 mph or more down a freeways you’ll need a tow truck following because you’ll run out of power between charge points. And if you’re planing on using it in Europe travelling well over 100 mph — forget about it!

According to Ana Kasparian the Tesla model S is a “very luxurious car” (F segment). Really?!!  The interior looks pretty spartan for a luxury car to me. It’s certainly no comparison to the Maserati Quattroporte GTS or Aston Martin Rapide S. My guess is the Tesla model S is supposed to be sports sedan or executive car (E segment).

However, with a base price between $52 400 and $87,400, depending on which model you opt for, the Tesla model S is incredibly overpriced. This car clearly doesn’t have the range for freeway driving and it’s both far too big and pricey to be a practical city runaround. If you really wanted an E-car t as a city runaround there are alternatives.  The FIAT 500e and Nissan Leaf are both much more realistic options because they are small, agile and relatively cheap city cars.

Another problem with the Tesla S is performance. It has good acceleration when it’s fully charged and working — but that’s not going to be often — but when the battery starts running low, so will the performance. Also and more importantly for a sports Sedan the top speed is dire. The 40 kWh engine can only manage 110 mph! That’s only 3 mph faster than the FIAT 500 with the 0.9 TwinAir dualogic engine, which is a lot cheaper, good on the environment, better around the city, and only takes a couple of minutes to refill. But even worse the top of the range Tesla model S 85 kWh Performance only has a top speed of 130 mph! Bearing in mind it won’t get anywhere near that  speed when its running low on battery, which inevitable it will if you try to take it near the top end. So you would be spending $87,400 on a sports sedan that can’t be driven fast.

By way of comparison its competitors, the BMW M5 is electronically limited to 155 mph, the Jaguar XFR-S does 186 mph and if we’re comparing it to super limos, the Maserati Quattroporte GTS does a 191 mph. But actually, the Tesla S under performs against much cheaper and smaller cars. The range topping model S 85 kWh Performance only has the same top speed as the Abarth 595, and is marginally slower than the Abarth Punto Supersport and Alfa Romeo MiTo Quadrifoglio Verde. It’s also a lot slower than the Alfa Romeo Giulietta Quadrifoglio Verde which has a top speed of 150 mph.

I accept that a lot of environmentalists who jerk off thinking about the Tesla S zero emissions might not think that speed matters much but it matters to consumers.

Why Tesla Motors is Still a Loser Company

According to Ana Kasparian of TYT, Tesla Motors is paying off it’s Government loan 5 years early. Yippee for the American tax-payer! — or maybe not!

Tesla Motors is the darling of American environmentalists, and after the the $465 million Government loan, there’s a lot riding on it’s success, especially for Democrats. Good will and a huge cash injection hasn’t translated into sales figures. The truth is that Tesla is in deep financial trouble. Tesla reported a loss of $89.9 million, or 79 cents a share, for the last quarter figures for 2012, compared with a loss of $81.5 million, or 78 cents a share the year before. It also missed production targets for the fourth-quarter.

In fact, since going public in 2010 because it desperately needed to raise operating capital, Tesla has yet to report a positive quarter for its investors. Which means you would be better off putting your life savings in a Cypriot bank than investing in Tesla. Not only has Tesla consistently failed to deliver on either production or sales projections, it has a negative operating income, negative growth and is saddled by debt and cash flow problems. Tesla was forced to float reserve stock on the market to raise more operating, which has led to an over-valuation of the stock. Not good for share holders because the stocks going south.

So how has Tesla got in a position to pay back it’s loan. Well, it hasn’t. It actually was unable to make it’s scheduled repayment last September and had to renegotiate for more breathing space. Thus far, Tesla has paid back $12.7 million of it $465 million debt, which it now projects it will repay in full by 2017… that is of course assuming it doesn’t go bankrupt before then.

So where is this money coming from?

According to Tesla motors founder and CEO Elon Musk, it will all come from customer deposits and profits.  He estimates a $2 billion annual revenue from the sale of 20,000 Tesla model S cars. Those figures don’t add up, and as those deposits are fully refundable on cancellation should he be counting them as revenue? Never mind, Tesla has about 15,000 reservations for it’s model S and no one would ever cancel a reservation.

Oh, wait a minute they have.

A reservation isn’t an order, all it requires a $5000 fully refundable deposit. So in reality, it’s little more than a registration of interest. If you change your mind you can cancel, get your money back and buy something else. Unsurprisingly there have been a lot of cancellations following a New York Times article that absolutely slated the Tesla S, and also led to yet another public spat between Tesla’s founder and CEO Elon Musk and a motor journalist.

Musk unsuccessfully tried to sue the BBC for malicious falsehood and libel over of a very fair Top Gear review of the Lotus Elise based Tesla Roadster that they accurately reported couldn’t do more than 55 miles on their track without recharging. The judge threw out both the libel and malicious falsehood actions.  Musk’s argument amounted to claiming that Top Gear didn’t drive his car at a sensible speed on their track! Because of course he thought tha Jeremy Clarkson and Ben Collins were going to drive the car around the track like a couple of pensioners.

He made pretty much the same accusation against the New York Times journalist who reviewed the S model and pointed out that it ran out of battery and needing towing. Apparently he was driving it faster than 55 mph, which is another reason why Tesla has pathetic sales figures and is still a loser company.

 

You’re Driving Too Fucking Fast!

This is former Italian F1 driver Riccardo Patrese and wife Suzi Patrese driving around Circuito de Jerez, in Andalucia, Spain in a Honda Civic Type R.  How many men can relate to Riccardo and how many woman can relate to Suzi (I know I can and I know at least one reader of this blog can too)

Gun Prohibition Doesn’t Work

I was going to write a post pointing out that Adama Lanza obviously chose Sandy Hook Elementary School as the venue for his massacre in the full knowledge that he wouldn’t face any armed resistance and had any of the teachers at the school been armed, he might have been stopped before he killed 26 people. I was also going to point out that a ban on regular capacity magazines would have made no difference to the amount of people he killed because he fired off around 150 rounds, frequently changing magazines, and missing far more than he hit. And that a ban on semi-automatic rifles won’t prevent the next mass murderer from getting hold of one, or just as easily carry out a massacre with a shotgun, rifle, semi-automatic pistol or revolver.

I was also going to point out that Obama hasn’t lost any sleep over the Sandy Hook School massacre, he didn’t know any of the children or teachers who were killed, he has no connection to the area, and he bears no responsibility for what happened. If he really cared he wouldn’t be exploiting their deaths for cheap political gain. And that Wayne LaPierre is no better with his mental health register. Lanza was a sadistic, bitter, loser but he probably wasn’t crazy, he wasn’t diagnosed with any serious mental health condition, and most people who suffer from mental health conditions are no more threat to society than people who don’t. But LaPierre comment on armed guards at schools was just plain ludicrous – no one is going to send their children to a school patrolled by armed guards, who will search Is everyone as they walk through the gate. What will they do to kids who get caught fighting – send them down the hole? And will after school detention be replaced with chain gangs?

But I thought it would be far better to address the real issue: gun prohibition doesn’t work. Only frothing-at-the-mouth hoplophobes and sandal wearing pacifists think that a total ban on private ownership of firearms is an achievable goal in America. Firearms are always going to be readily available to the majority of American adults, so anyone who wants to get hold of firearm will be able to either legally or illegally because there are so many guns in circulation. Concealed carry prohibitions are equally ineffective because as long as the firearm can be concealed, it can be carried without anyone else noticing. Even banning a particular type of firearm doesn’t make it less available when the UK passed a handgun ban in ’97 the consequences were more handguns on the street and more gun crime. American gun prohibitionists tend to ignore that fact when they hold up the UK’s gun prohibition laws as a paradigm of virtue. They also neglect to mention that the majority of the UK police are unarmed, which has led to police officers being shot dead because criminals have no problem accessing firearms, including automatic weapons. Anyone who wants a firearm in the UK can easily buy one illegally. The same is true all over Europe. It’s not difficult to get hold of a Kalashnikov in continental Europe with open borders throughout the EU.

 

Semi Automatic Failure

Merda! or in English, Shit! A semi-automatic failure might be annoying down the range  but in close combat it’s a life or death situation. Fortunately it’s completely avoidable. The only failure I’ve ever had have been deliberate.

The three most common failures with a semi-auto pistol are failure to feed, failure to extract, and failure to eject. The first one, failure to feed, is the most common. Basically, the bullet doesn’t travel from magazine to chamber and the slide only close partially aka “out of battery”,  there are three main reason for this: riding the slide, short sliding and muzzle contact with the target. Riding the slide is simply holding on to the slide as it travels forward, so it doesn’t travel with enough velocity to properly feed the bullet into the chamber. Short sliding is not pulling the slide back far enough, which means it doesn’t have the full range of motion necessary to chamber the round, and muzzle contact with the target has the same effect. All of these are easily avoidable — DON’T FUCKING DO IT!

The other reasons for a failure to feed are a dirty chamber, which doesn’t really apply to modern semi autos, or a damaged magazine. But modern semi auto are designed to be twat proof, so if you have any sort of failure the chances are that pulling the trigger again will resolve the problem.  The other two problems: failure to extract i.e.  the bullet fired, but the extractor didn’t pull the fired case from the chamber and you get a  “double-feed” or another round in the chamber; and failure to eject, which is similar, the fired case is caught in the chamber, which causes the slide to lock, called  “stovepiping”.  these failures can again be linked to a dirty chamber but in all reality you can pretty much guarantee the cause was “limp-wristing” (not holding the pistol firmly enough). Again the solution – DON’T FUCKING DO IT!

So having established that these failures are completely avoidable, why do they happen? Generally speaking, I’d say it was incompetence with the exception of riding the slide and short sliding, which can be the result of poor training. Not everyone is strong enough to pull the slide back with one hand, which is why I advocate the pull and punch method. I’ve yet to meet an able bodied adult who is not strong enough to do this, and in a real life situation when you want to shoot someone it’s all too easy to short slide which is why I advocate carrying Condition One, with the gun all ready cocked.

Revolvers and the Self-Defense

Some love the revolver best because they think he more reliable and powerful or like he fire the larger round and he very easy to fire. Other people no so much agree because they love the semi automatic pistole for he have more rounds and quicker to reload. They like he have no so much recoil and can shoot faster. But me Pietro have a different mind to both of these gun lovers. The revolver and semi automatic pistole she like the blonde girl and brunette girl. I love to shoot them both.

I also no agree that the revolver is more reliable than pistole because both reliable if good manufacturer who make him. Smith and Wesson revolver more reliable to Hi Point or Kel Tec pistole, but these more reliable than Röhm RG and Clerke and other Saturday Night Special revolver. And Smith and Wesson revolver he less reliable than European pistole like the Beretta, Tanfoglio, Zastava, SIG, H&K, CZ, Glock, and FN.. Some people say revolver must be more reliable because he have less parts but not true he have more parts than pistole only less moving parts. Good revolver and good pistole both are both reliable. Either the two is good for the defense but for somethings one better than other one. For a girl who don’t love gun too much I think revolver is the one she need. Two of my sisters like revolver more than pistole. My other sister don’t like the guns because she a Nun. I tell her don’t worry about Jesus he was a carpenter, what he know about guns?

Dirty Harry – S&W Model 29

“I know what you’re thinking: ‘Did he fire six shots or only five?’ Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I’ve kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?”

Dirty Harry carries Model 29, 44 Magnum, it not good revolver for the defense but if you strong enough it no problem and he make a big hole in the strunzu you want shoot. This is good because he bleed more and die quicker. I always command to my clientèle to assassinate anyone they want shoot. It better you kill him because if he live he might kill you. Some strunzu think you give warning. In America they say this about Zimmerman. But what you want give a warning for? It better shoot him in his head first then give the warning so everyone hear.

Many that love the pistole don’t like revolver only five or six shooter but this no problem for me, I carry two handguns because he quicker than reloading and if one misfire I still got the second gun. Other reason they don’t like is the recoil but all handgun have recoil. The big problem of the revolver is he slower. For me this no problem I no like to shoot fast. Rob way is Italian army way. He very good and very quick but he shoots two round in same head. How many times I want him dead? My Papa told me never waste a bullet because you might need him. When he was a boy his Papa assassinate four soldiers with six rounds. The last soldier he revolver empty before he assassinated.