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Gun nut, sexual athlete and ex-antivirus mogul John McAfee just went full electromagnetic pulse crazy. I suppose it had to happen although on the scale of all things McAfee, it’s not very original. In a recent syndicated column (yes, someone gave him one), McAfee parrots what the extreme kook right and survivalists/preppers have been going […]
Hat tip to Steve Aftergood for pointing out the latest and most pathetic accomplishment of the Cult of Electromagnetic Pulse Crazy, aka the House Congressional EMP Caucus. (Which was a name the mainstream media could use to get around having to explain that they were, well, electromagnetic pulse crazies.) Yesterday it was responsible for passing […]
When Republican Roscoe Bartlett was booted out of the House permanently during the last election, it marked the official death of the Cult of Electromagnetic Pulse Crazy. That’s because the head of the electromagnetic pulse cause in the House went solely into the hands of the leader of EMP caucus, Trent Franks of Arizona. Trent […]
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When Roscoe Bartlett, mainstay of the Cult of Electromagnetic Pulse Crazy, had his House career ended in the November election it dealt a heavy blow to the lobbying group. With Newt Gingrich being run off the national stage yet again, two of its most vigorous personalities were cut down. Although Bartlett never got any legislation […]
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Maryland’s notorious kook, House Republican Roscoe Bartlett, is nearing what appears to be the end of his political career as head of the Cult of Electromagnetic Pulse Crazy lobby. As long as I can remember Bartlett has been in congress, warning about how an enemy — North Korea, or terrorists, and now the special foe […]
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Too rich to pass up, the press release passed off as a story, from Google News, written by “a former corporate director of public affairs for General Dynamics Corp.” Anyway, the headline reads: ‘Revolution,’ new TV show, focuses on absence of electricity; could it be from electromagnetic pulse attack … Scenario not unimaginable if terrorists […]
Is there anyone who doesn’t see electromagnetic pulsing on television, in comic books or movie screens a couple times a week? From the wire — no link: New Regency has picked up The New West, an adaptation of a comic book written by Jimmy Palmiotti, with Len Wiseman now on board to produce … Palmiotti, […]
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From the mists of time and the old archive of Crypt Newsletter material, a summary of amusing stories on electromagnetic pulse weaponry in the mainstream news. All of it over a decade old. While it’s not for laymen, a quick read gives some historical perspective on why electromagnetic pulse weapons are the technology that’s always […]
Jerry Boykin, in the news recently for being chosen to lead a prayer breakfast at West Point, was recently featured on Glenn Beck. That video from Beck’s TV show is here. Since being dismissed from Fox, Beck isn’t nearly as famous or influential. Here he laments Boykin’s withdrawal from the West Point prayer breakfast after […]
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This week James Arbuthnot, a Tory member of Parliament brought the Cult of Electromagnetic Pulse Crazy to the UK, resulting in a burst of stories on how England could be thrown back to the time of the movie, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, or whatever passes for it in merry Old England. One example, […]
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