Author: Simon

Watch the second part. See the discussion at Bring your cameras and video recorders. This seems like a pretty good camera for the price. More than enough pixels for the Internet. Kodak EasyShare C180 10MP Digital Camera with 3x Optical Zoom and 2.4 inch LCD This video camera had decent reviews: Kodak Zi6 HD Pocket…

From the blurb at YouTube: Desiree Bassett of Connecticut shreds guitar like no other her age! sit down and enjoy! The song is called “Power & Force, which is also the the title of her all original CD. Desiree also wrote this song at the age of 10. Desiree has a fan club where you…

This is about the best take on the Tea Party participants (as opposed to the “leaders”) that I have read so far. Beyond their fiscally conservative principles, the ideology of the people involved in the tea party movement tends to vary dramatically. So far, tea party activists “haven’t been interested in politics,” Fitton said. Which…

Camden, New Jersey has a problem. For nine months last year, Ron Mills was locked in the Camden County Jail. For nine months he held firm to his story that the drugs he was charged with possessing didn’t exist. Last month Mills’ story was validated when a former Camden police officer admitted in federal court…

H/T Diogenes via e-mail and The Sniper who created them and has more. And who for the price of viewing this picture here insists that you give him a visit. It would be the honorable thing to do. Cross Posted at Power and Control

I had something to say about all this yesterday. F. A. Hayek had something to say about it in 1944: The Road to Serfdom H/T Diogenes via e-mail Cross Posted at Power and Control

The trap is simple: some really smart managers with really good tools can greatly reduce the “waste” of the system to the profit of all. That is the essence of communism, socialism, fascism and every kind of despotism known to man. And don’t forget envy. i.e. “Share the wealth” F. A. Hayek in his nobel…

More Rockford Tea Party pictures I don’t know who the above gentleman is (I think he is a candidate for office in Illinois – my mate took the picture) but he was speaking at the Rockford Tea Party yesterday and was warmly welcomed. Let me add that I was talking for a few minutes with…

I have a bunch of pictures from today’s Rockford Tea Party at Power and Control. I may post some of them here later. But for now follow the link. And don’t forget: Click on the above image and learn how to spread it around.

Do you recall my recent Report From Omaha? I reported on the Tea Party Express Bus Tour’s stop in Omaha. On April 6th they will be coming to Davenport, Iowa and Rockford, Illinois and Madison, Wisconsin. Here are the details for Rockford. Rockford, IL Date/Time: Tuesday, April 6th at 2:30 pm Rally Location: Davis Park…

You can get the Physicist’s explanation at: Bussard’s IEC Fusion Technology (Polywell Fusion) Explained Found at Maggie’s Farm H/T Jccarlton at Talk Polywell Cross Posted at Power and Control

Click on image for a larger view. The green areas in the above map show where drilling is allowed. The Red areas show where drilling is not allowed. Compare Bush’s map to obama’s map. It pretty much explains why the oil markets didn’t even blip on the announcement by obama about his opening of some…

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness A review from the above link: Contrary to the rosy picture of race embodied in Barack Obama’s political success and Oprah Winfrey’s financial success, legal scholar Alexander argues vigorously and persuasively that [w]e have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned…

I grew up in Omaha and my mom still lives there. So this report from Omaha about a Tea Party there inspired me to write. The big traffic problems in Southwest Omaha Thursday night could be blamed on one thing: a political rally. Some people had to park more than a mile away from the…

Senator Chris Dodd has a plan to make investing in new ventures more difficult. …Dodd’s bill would require startups raising funding to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and then wait 120 days for the SEC to review their filing. A second provision raises the wealth requirements for an “accredited investor” who can invest…

We have an image of Victorians as prudish about sex. And the continuous decrying of our sex gone wild culture. But the truth may be different. For those into sex control the past was always more moral and today’s youth are going to hell one night at a time. But maybe human nature is not…

There is an ongoing discussion at Classical Values about whether the Federal Government can force you to buy a product. Like heath insurance say. Or a car from Government Motors. I just came across an interesting mp3 from the Volokh Conspiracy on that very question. It is a discussion by the Attorney General of Colorado…

The demise of the Pravda and Izvestia media is in full swing. CNN continued what has become a precipitous decline in ratings for its prime-time programs in the first quarter of 2010, with its main hosts losing almost half their viewers in a year. But the news is not all bad for them. Some of…

I just got a wonderful e-mail promising $500,000 for victims of Obama’s scams. On behalf of the Obama’s Foundation and UNITED NATIONS, we wish to notify you as a beneficiary of $500,000 USD in compensation of scam victims.This is to bring to your notice that we are delegated from the Obama’s Foundation and UNITED NATIONS…

The public scenes (Senate hearings) are pretty faithful to the record according to what I can tell. Very few words have been changed or left out. Compare the movie version to newsreel clips of them. This came up because of Congressional hearings threatened against companies revealing material losses caused by the Health Care Bill. And…