Reply #328: tell you what

[one-eyed fat man]

Go to Lowe's buy some acetone (used as lacquer reducer), go to the beauty and barber supply and get some hair bleach (30% hydrogen peroxide), hit Auto Zone for some battery acid, or Home Depot for some muriatic acid to clean the oil stain off the driveway. Get a bunch of ice, and if you don't blow yourself up like an inept member of Hamas, you can brew in your bathtub an explosive that is, pound for pound, 80% as potent as TNT, is undetectable by bomb-sniffing machines, is missed by most bomb dogs, but has the drawback of not being very stable or having a very long shelf-life.

Best of all you don't need anything exotic, like blasting caps to detonate it. It also makes an ideal booster charge for another transparent explosive, ANFO. We used to teach that stuff to our soldiers 30 years ago. I bet it still works. The best part of Army training it wasn't just an theoretical academic exercise. We would actually mix up improvised explosives like ANFO and TATP and detonate them on the demo range.

Setting effective booby-traps is easy when you view them as practical jokes, played for keeps. For some reason I have yet to figure out, leftist radicals resort to bombs and arson while the right wing wackos tend to use guns. Is it more despicable to look defenseless people in the eye and shoot them or indiscriminately incinerate them after you are long gone, simply to advance a cause?