Author: Simon

The arguments about Penn State and Joe Paterno are at a fever pitch. It seems to be a developing consensus that the University was involved in a cover up of the incident involving a child being molested. The purpose likely being to keep the money flowing. It won’t be the first time. Back in January…

I’m trying to reconcile these two statements from the MERS Mortgage Registry. “The MERS System is not a legal system of record or a replacement for public land records. No interests are transferred on the system—they are only tracked,” Smith, Merscorp vice president of corporate communications, wrote in a response to emailed questions. “MERS does…

H/T polyill at Talk Polywell.

We have a commenter at in a media kangaroo court, you’re guilty even if proven innocent!, who left this link in the comments: Omelas State University in which science fiction writer John Scalzi excoriates the silence up and down the chain of command in the Joe Paterno case which is so hot right now. Here’s…

My friend Karridine sends this latest update: The water from the country’s worst flooding in more than half a century is filling Bangkok’s Lahd Prao intersection, where three major roads meet. Office towers, condominiums and a popular shopping mall are in the area, where local observers say the water is 15 inches deep. The intersection…

I’m sure it has some numerological significance. It is almost 11:11 AM CDT here so I’m about to celebrate: 11-11-11 11:11 Smoke ’em if you got ’em.

But (or should that be butt?) comments are allowed.

A little snow music.

The First Mate asked for this. So here it is honey.

In the discussion a few of us were having about the (near) future of civilization commenter bram said (edited for spelling errors) The problem I have with most of the atheists (I’m typing to an obvious exception [that would be me – Simon]) I know is that they have substituted God with the State. They…

I have absolutely no sympathy for the Occupy Wall Street protests (OWS). None. It wasn’t the Banks that crashed the economy. It was Congress under the auspices of Chris Dodd and Barney Frank who set up the rules that the banks HAD to operate under. The banks were forced to write mortgages that were never…

The government is now taxing Christmas in order to pay for its wrecking of the economy. In the pre-dawn darkness of a chilly LA morning, my day started off with a chuckle. A friend in the reforestation business sent me an email detailing the US Department of Agriculture’s new ‘Christmas Tree’ tax that was approved…

Do not watch this video if you can’t stand dogs getting shot and a SWAT team terrorizing a Columbia, Missouri family over a few pot pipes. I first blogged this on 10 May 2010. There has been some reaction to that video which I will get to shortly. What was the disposition of the case?…

I was reading a transcript of the above speech at Israpundit and decided to follow the link given to the source of the transcript. You can try that here: sarahpac.com/posts/governor-palins-speech-at-the-restoring-america-tea-party-of-america-rally-in-indianola-iowa-video-and-transcript. As you can see it comes up “Not Found”. OK maybe Comcast is acting up again. So I look up Sarah Pac and what do…

I was reading the reviews of Spengler’s new book How Civilizations Die: (And Why Islam Is Dying Too) and came across this interesting bit: David Goldman’s book is hard to summarize, perhaps because it is so thought-provoking. It is also full of data which you have probably never seen before. The most startling data describe…

The engineer is a Brit obviously. What we Americans call a ‘scope probe – meaning oscilloscope probe – he calls a CRO probe – meaning cathode ray oscilloscope probe. Well obviously there are no cathode ray tubes (sort of like a television display tube) in modern ‘scopes. But the term has stuck. For the Brits…

Well Gold ATMs actually. China is one of the world’s largest producers and purchasers of precious metals, especially gold and silver. Beijing has now unveiled its first gold ATM machine in a shopping district. More than 2,000 will be installed in the next two years. I wonder if this is meant to sop up the…

My friend Karradine has sent me an update from Thailand. ==== A friend sent me a link this morning to tempers rising as the waters rise, but that’s been a local headline, recurring for a couple days now… I asked around, and learned this: various parts of Bangkok benefit from ‘aid’ or ‘protection’ from different…

I like them because they are interesting. Very few are worth anything. So here is a woman, a former State Department Official, droning on about the Illuminati, the Skull and Bones Society, Adam Weishaupt, and lots of other stuff. Great fun from Newsalert. Where you can watch the rest of the videos. .

There are more comments from the Iranians earlier in the thread. Here is one I found interesting. It seems that Construction of WB7 or WB8 model isn’t difficult. It will be possible for us. Here is a real gem. What I can’t figure out is why the Israelis aren’t on it. The thread started because…