Month: June 2009

The above is part two of a four part series. The video is not too good but the information is first rate. Part 1 Part 2 – shown above Part 3 Part 4 And here is one scientist’s research on why we may be cooling: The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change And…

Here is a link to the Ravi Khanna piece mentioned in the video. Here is what Gretchen Peters has to say: She says the U.S. must disrupt the Taliban’s heroin money trail. “While the insurgents earn some money from collecting taxes from the farmers, the bulk of the earnings come from protecting the trade, protecting…

It’s hard to believe that it’s been 65 years since the Normandy invasion, but it has. While I wasn’t yet born, I was a child in the 1950s — when World War II was still a very fresh and vivid memory for every adult. (And World War I was in the memory of almost every…

Newton’s Cradle is a great desk piece for the executive or an educational toy (energy, inertia, momentum) for kids. Or both. If you want to read up on Newton and learn a little physics this book would be a good place to start: Introducing Newton Cross Posted at Power and Control

Steve Ballmer of Microsoft says that higher taxes will force Microsoft to move jobs offshore. June 3 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steven Ballmer said the world’s largest software company would move some employees offshore if Congress enacts President Barack Obama’s plans to impose higher taxes on U.S. companies’ foreign profits. “It makes…

And police priorities are police priorities. Hear hear! A friend emailed me a link to a story about the repeated ticketing of a car with a dead man inside: A New York City woman says her father apparently lay dead for weeks in a minivan while police repeatedly left parking tickets on the vehicle. Jennifer…

In a comment left to M. Simon’s earlier post about the death of actor David Carradine (who was found naked and hanging), Captain Ned opined that it was not suicide, but auto-erotic asphyxiation, and pointed to this post by Ace. Looks like Ace was absolutely right: David Carradine could have died from suffocation or heart…

Commenter CJ Yetman had this to say in my post Paying For Social Security that discussed how Hitler Saved Social Security (for at least a year) by killing a lot of Jews. Actually he probably just moved some paper between file cabinets and spent the money on the war. Still the numbers were adjusted on…

No, seriously. We have a president who thinks we are in debt. On more than just the economic front. As a student of history, I also know civilization’s debt to Islam. It was Islam – at places like Al-Azhar University – that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for…

Actor David Carradine killed himself in Bangkok, Thailand. BANGKOK – Actor David Carradine, star of the 1970s TV series “Kung Fu” who also had a wide-ranging career in the movies, has been found dead in the Thai capital, Bangkok. A news report said he was found hanged in his hotel room and was believed to…

You may have noticed that I added a current radio propagation and solar statistics chart to the sidebar at Power and Control. The chart is refreshed every 3 hours, but you will need to refresh the page that has it to see the latest. If you want one for your blog or webpage you can…

In a comment left to an earlier post, commenter and blogger Evil Otto said this to an anonymous* commenter (who left no URL or email address): I’d like to congratulate LBP on a masterful job of trolling. You have managed to shift attention away from the subject at hand with great skill. Kudos. I thought…

Illegal Drugs? Illegal Food? Where will it stop? In time we will all be outlaws. “Did you really think we want those laws observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against… We’re after power and we mean…

This is something I wrote in October of 2007. I don’t know why I haven’t cross posted it before this. So without further ado: == I recently wrote an article on Enron and Carbon Trading. Here is another bit excerpted from a link provided in Enron and Carbon Trading. Enron commissioned its own internal study…

Watts Up With That? is taking a look at satellite data vs model data. The satellite data, ERBE – The Earth Radiation Budget Experiment, is in the upper left. You can click on the graphs for a larger view. I’m not going to go into all the math. I leave that to the boffins. The…

Speaking to the Turkish Parliament, President Barack Obama made the following claim: “…if you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.” As Don Surber demonstrates, the claim is wrong: With an estimated 5 million to 8 million Muslims, obviously he does not mean by…

Wow. Can the kowtow be far behind? MORE: I think Brian Williams’ bow might tend to have at least partially answered M. Simon’s question. AND MORE: Ed Morrissey asks a question to which he does not want the answer: If Williams bowed, what would Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews do to wish the President a…

When I saw that post by Ann Althouse (guest blogging at Instapundit), I immediately thought the link might be going to this highly popular YouTube video of these Siamese twin girls. Instead, it went to a picture of edible twin egg yolks. It’s hard to tell whether the yolks are completely separate, so whether the…

Whenever I engage in brevity, I feel as if I’m leaving something out, which is my way of apologizing for this short post. Anyway, Richard Epstein contrasts the views of libertarians and conservatives towards the Sotomayor nomination, and said this: “…constitutional law contains no magic bullet that condemns judicial activism and lauds judicial restraint…” (Via…

Now that Dick Cheney is to the left of Barack Obama on gay marriage (or, as Ann Althouse says, “doing his usual thing of currying favor with the lefties”), where does that leave our reactionary president? I guess he’s doing his usual thing of currying favor with “Christianist theocrats.” Oh the irony!