Month: March 2013

The ongoing horror story about the confiscation of the savings of ordinary people led M. Simon to ask a question more people ought to be asking. Some one has to pay for the welfare state. Will the US be next? Unless something is done fast, eventually we will. This is a classic illustration of Margaret…

I ran across a link to this story that explains the mess we are in: Origins and Growth of Al Capone’s Outfit: Chicago’s First Ward Democratic Organization and its Aftermath. Barack Obama ran for President with his headquarters in downtown Chicago. Obama’s election night victory speech was just blocks away in Chicago’s Grant Park. To…

Speaking of crackpots, New York Mayor David Bloomberg is almost as nuts as Fred “God Hates Fags” Phelps. Momentarily slowed down by the courts for his attempt to ban large soft drinks, he is now trying to make it illegal for cigarettes to be visible in places where they are legally for sale: A new…

Bank account reductions mooted. Some one has to pay for the welfare state. Will the US be next?

California SWAT teams are collecting guns from any home that houses a person with mental issues. And who did the SWAT teams originally practice on for decades? Dopers. You can’t say I didn’t warn you. Well it looks pretty reasonable for now. If you or some one in your house has had a mental problem…

For a variety of reasons, this report that “God Hates Fags”/Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps may be gay is deeply troubling. A former member of the Westboro Baptist Church who recently published a book about leaving the hate-mongering group has also revealed that founder Fred Phelps’s anti-gay ideology may have spawned from a gay…

Andrew Breitbart. Does anyone remember what he used to say? The reason I’m posing the rhetorical question is that I well remember the man’s outspoken insistence that conservative tent ought to include all of those who share conservative and libertarian beliefs — including gay conservatives. In 2009, he told social conservatives that they cannot write…

About two minutes. If you want some text to go with it may I suggest: Endocannabinoids The Science. Heart surgeon Dr. David Allen considers cannabis an essential nutrient for heart health. An interesting fact from the video: There are more cannabinoid receptors in the body than any other receptor type.

I found a very nice explanation of our current economic maladies in a comment at Zero Hedge. In response to a commenter who calls himself Krugman. Pareto Fri, 03/15/2013 – 20:23 Your Keynesian model assumes static inter-temporal preferences – that people don’t change their preferences given a change in the system’s rules and price signals.…

I came across this from the NIH this morning. The endocannabinoid system consists of an array of endogenously produced bioactive lipids that activate cannabinoid receptors. Although the primary focus of endocannabinoid biology has been on neurological and psychiatric effects, recent work has revealed several important interactions between the endocannabinoid system and cancer. Several different types…

The trial in Steubenville, Ohio of high school football players for rape has caught my attention because it raises issues about feminist sexism (a politically incorrect oxymoron) which seem to go largely unexplored. Two male minors, aged 16 and 17, are accused of raping a 16 year old female, who was allegedly too drunk to…

From Cathy Young, some observations occasioned by the 60th anniversary of Stalin’s death: …there also remains, on the left, a lingering belief that Soviet communism was at least motivated by noble goals of social justice. Vestiges of this delusion can be found in left-wing sympathy for Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez, who, by startling coincidence, died…

The great Chinese pig float is on. While the media is transfixed with the final figure of floating dead pigs found Shanghai’s Huangpu River, which at last check was crossing 6000, a bigger problem has emerged: pig carcasses have now been spotted in a different river, which means that the worst case scenario could be…

I came across a couple of sites about Christians Against Drug Prohibition while noodling around the net. One of them was was this book:The War on Drugs Is a War on Freedom One reviewer had this to say (bolding mine): For Vance, the fundamental issue in drug regulation is individual rights. He does not at…

Here’s a headline I am delighted to see: Md. Woman Cited for Driving Too Slowly in Left Lane Good! People who hog the left lane (which is the passing lane) and refuse to get over are not only rude, they are a hazard to everyone on the road, as they cause long lines of angry…

Republicans are taking the lead on hemp production legalization in the US. Democrat voters are outraged. Besides a few champion reformists on both sides of the aisle, neither the Democrats or Republicans, especially on the national level, are known for being friendly to cannabis law reform. But with our nation’s Senate minority leader, a Republican,…

Remember when cross dressing meant something? Not today. It’s hard to care one way or the other. And I don’t mean that to sound the way it sounds. Just whatever.

In my relentless pursuit of Drug Nazis, this will be the first of a number of posts about deaths in the Drug War. I don’t intend to cover every one. Just those that interest me. Here is the first. Georgia Man Holding Pepper Spray Killed in Drug Raid. Here is the police version: According to…

A funny thing happened at the zoo yesterday. An elephant was playing with his tractor tire, and he got more and more excited. He wheeled the thing around like a pro, and actually pushed it right towards me, whereupon it hit the heavy electrified fence with a giant THWACK! At that point, the elephant’s behavior…

Mike sent me this link about a Ron Paul appearance in Canada. “Once the government gets in the business of producing economic equality or making you morally a better person, you have sacrificed the principle of liberty,” said Paul. “And you have given the government too much power. Inevitably, throughout all history, governments when they…