Author: Dave

Clayton Cramer has written a piece on how we treat our mentally ill that is just heart breaking. I have seen some of these issues play out with a close relative. Very painful. Sadly, there is not much help out there and hardly any one interested. When we de-institutionalized people with mental problems a considerable…

H/T Something… and Half of Something

I was reading the comments at Coyote Blog since I just finished a bit about a climate article they had put up and I came across this little gem by dearieme posted Aug 9, 2007 12:15:51 PM: “Government scientists ..refuse to publicly release their temperature adjustment algorithms or software”: the default interpretation of that is…

Coyote Blog has a bit up on the latest Climate Change scandal. The error in the data making 1998 the hottest year on record. James Hansen is head of GISS (Goddard Institute for Space Studies) the source of the error. Michael Mann (inventor of the guaranteed hockey stick method – feed any data in, random…

It has come to my attention that there are problems with the the temperature record in Asia. At virtually the same time NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies was correcting historical climate data with the assistance of Climate Audit’s Steve McIntyre, a British mathematician discovered serious flaws in papers used and cited by the United…

It appears that China is interested in mining the moon. Chinanews, Guiyang, Aug 10 -China plans to survey every inch of the soil on the moon during the Chang’e project, said Ouyang Ziyuan, China’s chief scientist for the moon exploration project. So why would China be spending money on moon exploration. Do they have something…

It appears that Climate Audit after posting on a NASA error that made 1998 the warmest year on record (it is now second warmest after 1934, Power and Control link) has been hit with a denial of service attack according to a commenter at Watts Up With That? Evidently the news was too much for…

Michael Turner of the University of Chicago talks about the Big Bang and the Inflationary Universe. A deep subject given a light hearted treatment. You might want to get up to speed on the physics idea of “time horizon” in relation to the speed of light before digging in. Or keep repeating the section from…

Sacramento California has been reporting record highs this summer. Don’t tell Al Gore, but global warming is taking a holiday in Sacramento this week. The maximum temperatures Sunday and Monday set records each day — as the coolest “highs” for the dates since record-keeping began in 1877. Forecasters credit a deep marine layer and a…

Commenter Cormac-ballz asks: What I don’t get is: Congress is less popular than Bush because they didn’t stop the war/stand up to Bush etc. But Bush should be less popular because he’s the one persecuting the war in first place! Is there something about U.S. citizens that I fail to grasp? Is it because they…

Eric at Classical Values is wondering why there is so little coverage of a story about a reporter murdered in Oakland California. I think the answer is that the press does not wish to call attention to the connections of Barack Hussein Obama with the Nation of Islam’s leader or the Nation of Islam itself.…

Here are some interesting quotes from American Judges who don’t like mandatory minimums for drug offenses. Judge Morris S. Arnold Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Appointed by George H.W. Bush, 1992 “You may say that I said that many of our drug laws are scandalously draconian and the sentences are often savage. You may also…

The song at the left is meant to parody the right wing obsession with bombing every thing in sight where the right observes international political problems. Except that it seems like, in the words of the great Jimmy Durante, “Everyone is trying to get in on the act.” It appears that my esteemed Senator from…

Instapundit has brought up a topic near and dear to my heart. Nerds. He gives a few links. I clicked on this one and got Tom Maguire’s view on the subject. Very nice. There was a long discussion in the comments about gangsta culture and its aversion to numbers and all things technical (white). Some…

The Home Gunsmith.com Has some very neat plans for a home shop built SMG (submachine gun). Here is what the site owner has to say about gun control: My own view is that the gun not only belongs in the hands of the agents of the state (they can never be disarmed) but in the…

I just found a new site (via Instapundit) called Minding the Campus that concerns how the Race, Class, Gender (RCG aka Angry Studies) people are undermining liberal education. A good place to start is this piece on the Ward Churchill case, recently in the news, by KC Johnson of Durham in Wonderland/Duke Lacrosse case fame.…

I have a friend who reports on the defense industry. Nice Jewish boy. He says via e-mail that it is no use wasting your time trying to convince idiots of the obvious (morally it is sound though). He says a big war is coming. BIG war. Like Pearl Harbor it will unite us. He says…

Climate Audit alerted me to the the Detroit Lakes, MN USHCN climate station of record. Click on the picture to find out more about the surface station audit and to join in or the Climate Audit Link above to get a graph of the station’s record. It ain’t pretty. Cross Posted at The Astute Bloggers

I was reading this article about the revival of the Wankel engine for use in aircraft. However, this is not just any Wankel. It can burn kerosene. There’s nothing wrong in sticking with what works but those motors require 70 to 80 moving parts and still use 100-octane low-leaded (100 LL) fuel that has long…

It turns out California To Fund Bussard Fusion is a false alarm: Here is Joe Strout’s comment at Wed Jul 25, 2007 5:09 pm at Talk Polywell. UPDATE: I got a call back from Bill Maile in the Governor’s office. He spoke with the Governor’s policy advisors, and in brief, the story is false. This…