Month: December 2011

Funny thing I’d be talking about generators the other day. This morning shortly after six I was awakened by my (two) APC UPS units beeping rudely, which they do when the power goes out. So I turned off the APC units. Not long after that, I heard a strange a deep “POP” sound some distance…

This short video explains the “news”.

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As criminalization of homosexuality strikes me as an inherent violation of human rights, I was glad to see that the United States is at least trying to stop it: President Obama issued a memorandum directing American agencies to look for ways to combat efforts by foreign governments to criminalize homosexuality. As I have said before,…

The DA in Houston, Pat Lycos, is no longer prosecuting drug pipe residue cases. The police in the area (10,000 strong) don’t like it. They called it the War on Drugs; to cynics, it was the new Jim Crow.  The national policies against illegal drug use in the 1990s had the pernicious effect of wholesale…

I sleep and work in a 10ft by 10ft bedroom. This is my favorite part: The title of this post came from this song. About 1:15 in.

I’m not writing politics so much these days because I’m doing Electronics. My latest is here: Electronic Tools (software) – mostly free. And a little electronic music (and singing) to go with your tools. and

Yesterday I found a power washer which a neighbor was discarding. The power washer pump is broken, but it has a perfectly good 5.0 horsepower Honda OHC engine. The thing is on a nice cart with rubber wheels, which makes it very easy to move, so I thought about pulling the pump and transforming it…

Discussing the latest TSA horror (involving an elderly woman in bad health who was injured during a TSA stripdown search) Mark Steyn makes an important observation: America is now a land where 85-year old grannies are strip-searched without probable cause. You’re extremely naive if you think that, once government acquires a taste for that, it…

I have been getting on nostalgia kicks lately, and it has long fascinated me how this country survived for so many years when drugs (including highly addictive drugs like heroin and cocaine) were sold freely over the counter or in the mail without prescription. That sort of grotesque liberal excess ended in 1914 with the…

One of the reasons people got sick and tired of alcohol prohibition was the way it corrupted everyone. That’s the way it is when you make a crime out of things that humans consume. The consumers and suppliers are criminals, and because consumers can be anywhere, prohibition leads to corruption of the enforcement classes. Lots…

This morning I read something about Newt Gingrich that rang true: Newt’s got hubris like some people have halitosis. If your quest is to find the one Republican 2012 candidate who can match the insuperable arrogance of Barack Obama, go with Gingrich. When I watched the man at the last debate, his smug expressions and general…

I found this at Sign The Petition. The url seems to jump around so you may have to do a search on a text phrase to find the original. In addition I’m posting the whole thing. With links. ============== Criminal Justice Petition: Give Texas Prisoners Three Meals a Day | Change.org The Texas Department of…

H/T Conservatives4Palin

In comments to my earlier post, Eli Cabelly and M. Simon both remarked on the following oath: As a veteran I pledged myself to defend the constitution of the USA against all enemies, foreign and domestic. What I would like to know is what that means. What is a domestic enemy? I did a little…