Month: December 2007

The New Mexican has some interesting news about the progress on Bussard Fusion Reactor. Last August, as Bussard was losing his battle with cancer, the funds were restored with the support of Alan Roberts, EMC2’s longtime Navy contract monitor. The company now has $1.8 million to pursue his work. If it is successful verifying the…

This one is for all those who who have lost some one dear this year. I have lost a couple of people who fall in that category. Have a good cry and pick up the song and the dance. Triticale R.I.P. Dr. Bussard has died.

Fourmilog: None Dare Call It Reason has a review up of the book Energy Victory. It is all about how making our vehicles easier to use with various liquid fuels would get us off our dependence on imported oil. Here is the money quote: Here we have an optimistic, pragmatic, and open-ended view of the…

R-Squared Energy Blog has a list of his top ten energy stories of 2007. Interestingly none of his top ten includes wind. Here is his list: 1. Oil price soars as media becomes Peak Oil aware 2. Criticism of biofuels mounts 3. The Chevy Volt is announced 4. Nanosolar begins to deliver 5. LS9 starts…

Here’s a great gift idea for he or she who has everything — a USB humping dog! I never saw a dog that wanted to hump a USB port, but then, I can’t keep up with today’s trends. They have a picture of the little guy in action — doing his thing on the edge…

Michael van der Galien is reporting on the latest news from Amsterdam’s red light district. The Red Light District is a neighborhood in Amsterdam where women sit, barely dressed, behind windows, while trying to persuade passersby to come inside to have some good ol’ fun. Most of these women are from Eastern Europe, and, contrary…

I’m seriously overwhelmed by last minute Christmas stuff, and while it’s my own fault, there won’t be much time for blogging until later today. On the bright side, at least it’s the shortest day of the year. The solstice will occur tonight at 1:08 a.m. EST. 11:08 p.m. in Utah. And if I’m lucky, I…

Well, that’s what it says in the paper. What’s the epidemic? Guns, of course. The 4-year-old found his father’s gun, and shot himself with it: Yesterday afternoon, Nahdirah Jaamar dropped by a rowhouse on Salford Street to pick up her younger brother and ran into her 4-year-old cousin, Dyshon Boyd, a boisterous toddler that family…

For those of you who think Iraq was sweetness and light before the American invasion and who think that suicide bombing by Islamic fascists brought death to Iraq that was unknown before the American intervention you might want to look at the picture below and then check out Mass Graves. Be warned – there are…

I keep reading that pit bulls are the “number one dog of choice for drug dealers.” While the line sounds as if it had been scripted for Hollywood or MSM consumption, what really shocked me was to see it echoed by the Humane Society of the United States. When inflammatory code language like that is…

The Goddard Institute For Space Studies explains the meaning of surface air temperatures. Q. What exactly do we mean by SAT [Surface Air Temperature – ed.]? A. I doubt that there is a general agreement how to answer this question. Even at the same location, the temperature near the ground may be very different from…

There are plenty of excuses not to write blog posts, and most of them are not worthy subjects of blog posts. However, this morning I was all ready to write a post after I returned from an errand, but I was delayed by an irritating “tock-tock-tock” sound which seemed to be coming from the rear…

Kaus Files has a story on John Edwards. It seems the National Enquirer is flogging a story that claims Rielle Hunter is having John Edwards’ love child. The Enquirer posts the gist….. One initial point: There’s no reason to conclude this story was planted by one campaign or another. I’m familiar with how the initial…

She’s worse. From the trailer for Hillary The Movie. Side note: if any one recognizes the guy who said that in the trailer I’d like to give him credit. Cross Posted at Power and Control Update: 20 Dec 007 0755z Reader Vince P – Chicago at Classical Values says the guy with the Nixon bit…

But they are being thought anyway, and I don’t like reading that this kind of paranoid thinking is alleged to be taking hold among black Americans: Online and in the streets Black folk are saying they won’t vote for the senator because of fears of assassination attempts. The senator’s wife, an incredibly bright and engaging…

It’s hardly breathtaking news, but here’s an enjoyable little lesson in politics for Machiavellians and political junkies: Mayor-elect Michael Nutter last week wholeheartedly threw his support behind Hillary Clinton in next year’s presidential race. “Philadelphia, we need a friend in the White House,” he said at an Electric Factory fund-raiser for the New York senator,…

There is too much of this kind of stuff going on: A Minneapolis police SWAT team kicked in the wrong door yesterday during an early morning raid, prompting the man of the house to grab his gun and open fire on the officers who entered the house. “He took out his shotgun and he said…

In a previous post, I described Hillary Clinton having “no scruples or ideals whatsoever.” What I said cannot be overstressed, and it is shocking to me how much people have forgotten about recent American history. In a mini-history lesson on Clintonism, Diana West argues that not only is the “Clinton crime family” back, but something…

I would like to criticize Islam much more than I do publicly, but I’m afraid for my life if I do. So says “West Wing” producer Lawrence O’Donnell in an interview on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show. This revealing statement occurred while O’Donnell attempted to explain his rather over-the-top attack on Mitt Romney’s Mormonism. Roger L.…