Month: February 2013

This is one of my longtime favorite doowop songs (it makes me cry), and I didn’t know until today that someone had put it on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8X94CMv-mM Fascinatingly, the author (Van McCoy) later achieved national fame for that 70s disco song “The Hustle.” A song I absolutely hated, but which made millions. I don’t mean…

Here is the Libertarian Party response. I worry about the Libertarian plan to shrink America’s involvement in the world. That was tried in the 1930s and we got the 1940s in response. And what else did we get in the 40s? Government took over the economy. Other than that I do believe Libertarians have a…

Why is inflation relatively low despite large increases in the money supply? Money velocity has decreased. The author gives an equation and examples examples. Confirmation from Zero Hedge.

But I wouldn’t fix it your way he said.

From the the link Eric sent me. All circuit courts read and apply the fourth amendment uniformly as written: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated unless the presence of Narcotics is suspected. Or at least rumored by…

Eric sent me a link to this. So I fired back with a link to this which I got from here. Here are the contents: ========= “I think everyone knew how this would end. This is a classic case of evil on wicked. The Ouroboros.” “More importantly, what this does is utterly shatter any illusions…

Did I miss President Obama’s State of the Union Speech? I guess so. I’d like to be spared such things, so I’m glad others aren’t. (Honestly, I don’t think I could have taken it. I see this president as waging a war against the Constitution as no president has before, and I can’t stand watching…

When I was a kid, if you got a C, you got a C. These days, people sue. Megan Thode isn’t the first Lehigh University student who was unhappy with the grade she received in a course. But she may be the first to sue to get it changed. The C+ that Thode was given…

I used to do electronics design for and also some assembly work on HPLC equipment for Chromatronix in Berkeley, CA. About ’67. SC Laboratories. A video about HPLC, which when I worked in the field was High Pressure Liquid Chromatography. Another CBD video. delta9-THC – appetite enhancer. Lists a number of uses for the compound…

Zero Hedge has a picture. From the comments: “Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false and by the rulers as useful.” – Seneca 50 AD …and by Hitler youth, career track

This is a video about a special strain of Med Pot with one of the CBDs greatly enhanced. CB2 Changes in endocannabinoid levels and/or CB2 receptor expressions have been reported in almost all diseases affecting humans,[34] ranging from cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, liver, kidney, neurodegenerative, psychiatric, bone, skin, autoimmune, lung disorders to pain and cancer. The prevalence…

The day you realize that you can see your skeleton through the skin of your hands is the most horrifying day of your life. You can either embrace it, or you can start looking for employment as the cyborg overlord of your own bio-mechanical machine. It’s either that, or a dustbin. Make no mistake. The dustbin is…

I’m reading his manifesto (supposedly uncensored version here) and you know what? The police he describes in LA are the LA police I’m familiar with from a time long ago. And from my study of the Rampart scandal. The convicted offenses include unprovoked shootings, unprovoked beatings, planting of false evidence, framing of suspects, stealing and…

Let me start off with the #1 bit of narrative that the gun controllers like to tell you. Citizens armed with small arms can’t resist government. The militia is useless in today’s battle field. Then along came Chris Dorner who lost his job. And like Michael Douglas in Falling Down he intends to correct a…

While there has been a lot of attention focused on gun control lately, not quite as much attention is being paid to a related underlying question. Who is being disarmed, and why? The gun control plans that I have seen always exempt the police, the government, and the military, so in that sense their proponents…

From Bare Naked Islam which is discussing the “high status” of women in Islam.

Making Thomas Jefferson into a socialist takes work, but I have seen a particular Jefferson “quote” invoked so many times (by the so-called “99%”) that I thought it merited closer examination. Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey…

My brother was killed by robbers with guns (probably gang members) in Oakland, CA in 1974. I’m no fan of gun control either. H/T JPFO

I’ve been fascinated by a recent Reason-Rupe poll on the marijuana issue, which is forcing me to rethink some of the stereotypes that are hard to shed. Ironically, the poll results reminded me that I need to stay in the Republican Party, despite my differences with what the majority of the party seems to think.…