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“Prohibition” on PBS – TV schedule Cross Posted at Power and Control

The audio is not so hot (it sounds like it was recorded off a playing TV), but the information is excellent. More here. Watch the above first for background. H/T Zero Hedge Cross Posted at Power and Control

Sometimes I despair about my allies. Let alone my enemies.

Guns and drugs don’t mix according to the ATF. If you live in a state where medical marijuana is legal you can go to prison for up to two years if you use medical marijuana and own a firearm. A gun rights group and a medical marijuana group are getting together to oppose this measure.…

From Moms United To End The War On Drugs The Colorado Independent tells the story. Hundreds of law enforcement professionals including Denver’s U.S. District Judge John Kane have come together on a curious quest: Saying the drug war has failed, they want to legalize drugs. Some are very nuts and bolts, saying the war on…

I was dreaming about this song this afternoon while I was taking a short nap. So I thought I ought to post it. The words were a little different in my dream though “I’m naked and can’t find my way home”. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Bill Whittle does a preliminary investigation of the recent Reno Air Races accident that killed 11 people. It is very good if you want to know what went wrong. And why nothing in life is risk free. Mind Your Own Business. Live Free Or Die. Thanks Bill! Cross Posted at Power and Control

I’m a fan of Naked Lunch. Especially the movie Naked Lunch. So imagine my surprise when I received a political fund raising e-mail that started off: Do you want to see Barack Obama and Lady Gaga win this week’s political battle? I know I sure don’t. As you know tomorrow is the 3rd Quarter FEC…

I have a new article up at ECN Magazine about a microprocessor that can do 90 billion instructions per second for a power cost of about 1 watt. Pretty good huh? It gets better. The chip has 144 processors in the package and when they are all idle the chip uses only 14 microwatts. GreenArrays…

Alan Kellogg in the comments says you might like to compare this version:

The Wall Street Journal had a scare story up a while back to the effect of Needle Parks coming to the US. Well that is interesting and just more of the same old. What is really interesting is the comments. I’m going to excerpt a few of them. These two ignorant prohibitionists shamefully forgot to…

We do live in Interesting Times. Iran will be sending warships to the US coast. Iran’s navy will send ships into the Atlantic Ocean, state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported Tuesday. The vessels will sail out of the Persian Gulf and toward the U.S. East Coast as retaliation for American ships in the Persian Gulf.…

Them crazies at Zero Hedge are at it again. The head of UniCredit global securities Attila Szalay-Berzeviczy had this to say: “the euro is “practically dead” and Europe faces a financial earthquake from a Greek default”… “The euro is beyond rescue”… “The only remaining question is how many days the hopeless rearguard action of European…

Hilarious. H/T Patriot Action Network Cross Posted at Power and Control

As you may or may not know Black support for the pResident is falling off a cliff. If the Head Man doesn’t do something about it soon he is a goner in 2012. So imagine my surprise when a local Black who writes an editorial column for the Rockford Register Star, Ed Wells, has come…

Zero Hedge tells an interesting tale. The latest quarterly report from the Office Of the Currency Comptroller is out and as usual it presents in a crisp, clear and very much glaring format the fact that the top 4 banks in the US now account for a massively disproportionate amount of the derivative risk in…

Now there is a novel concept. Practically unknown in America these days. The subject came up because of a comment TMI made to Eric’s post the feather yankee doodle stuck in his cap is now a federal felony!. Let me quote the bit by TMI that is pertinent: Gary Becker’s seminal work in crime and…

This is the Industry Week take on the Solyndra solar cell company’s crash and burn. What a complete — and unnecessary — disgrace the Obama administration’s performance in the Solyndra affair has been. Admittedly, not all the facts are out about the administration’s decision to award a $535 million dollar federal loan guarantee to the…

Patriot Action Network is going on about the Government plan (implemented) to deliver guns to the Mexican Drug Cartels. One commenter said: The real purpose of “Fast and furious” program was to shut down the Texas gun shops. To which I responded. The real purpose of the Drug War is to attack the 2nd Amendment.…

Fred On Everything (FOE) has a most amusing post up and you should read the whole thing. The post is about the drug WAR generally and how to win it. He has lots of suggestions. I liked this one particularly. First the set up: I see that I may have to take over drug policy…