Author: Simon

The forces of drug prohibition won a big case that will reverberate in the fight against the health care bill. They won it in 2005 in the Supreme Court. Read it and weep. Lawsuits from 14 states challenging the constitutionality of the new national healthcare law face an uphill battle, largely due to a far-reaching…

Remember a few days back when I posted about the trouble with police crime labs? Well I have more evidence. San Francisco prosecutors told judges Friday that they could not “ethically go forward” with 46 narcotics trials because of evidence problems arising out of the scandal at the Police Department’s drug-analysis lab – signaling that…

I saw this at Vanderleun’s American Digest. Dymphna at Gates of Vienna whose mate Baron Bodissey did the artwork says steal it. Post it far and wide. Dennis The Peasant has this to say: …because Obamacare incentivizes non-coverage by imposing employer fines for non-coverage that are far less than the cost of offering health insurance,…

Rick Nebel who is in charge of the Polywell Experiments at EMC2 comments on Alan Boyle’s article on progress in Fusion Power on MSNBC’s Cosmic Log. As usual, I seem to have created some misconceptions by my comments. First of all, what we said on our website is that the work on the WB-7 has…

The Wall Street Journal interviews a Drug War observer who says that changing our policy of Prohibition is a viable alternative to the Drug War. Cross Posted at Power and Control

If the audio wasn’t exactly clear this should make it plainer: Reverend Al Sharpton told Fox News: “I think that this began the transforming of the country where the President had promised. This is what he ran on.” When the interviewer interjected that many view the vote as a step towards socialism, Sharpton didn’t skip…

Sarah Palin has a new Facebook up. We’re going to reclaim the power of the people from those who disregarded the will of the people. We’re going to fire them and send them back to the private sector, which has been shrinking thanks to their destructive government-growing policies. Maybe when they join the millions of…

An interesting report on bad science in crime labs. Let us consider something we used to teach our sophomores – lead smelting and refining. Almost all lead occurs as sulfide ores that contain lesser amounts of other metals. Smelting removes the sulfur and refining removes most of minor elements, notably gold, silver and copper. The…

The Republicans are getting really diabolical. I mean besides Dick Cheney and Karl Rove. They are going to make Democrats vote in favor of dick stiffeners for sex offenders. On Tuesday, the GOP put its strategy into action, with Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okl.) introducing an amendment beyond agreeable. Titled “No Erectile Dysfunction Drugs To Sex…

Alan Boyle’s Cosmic Log has a new article up on Polywell Fusion. You won’t hear Rick Nebel talking about fusion as a challenge requiring billions of dollars and decades of experimentation. For the past couple of years, Nebel heads up a handful of researchers following the less-traveled path to fusion at EMC2 Fusion Development Corp.…

Bill Whittle is up to his old tricks. And good ones they are. And so now we have it. I thought I might need to try my small part to cheer people up and calm them down, but for once I have underestimated the American people. People, by and large, seem not only calm but…

H/T DullHawk.com Cross Posted at Power and Control

The Health Destruction Bill has passed and Americans are up in Arms. So the question is “What to Do? Well that is obvious. Throw the Democrats out in November. The great imponderable in American elections is the 30% to 50% (more or less) that don’t vote in elections. My guess is that a lot of…

According to our local paper, fondly called The Red Star, only 25% of house sales in the area are foreclosure sales. Except that I know for a fact that the banks are putting off foreclosure as long as possible so as to avoid as long as they can booking the losses. In Boone, Ogle and…

My friend E. J. Pagel advises me via e-mail that the Cheech and Chong Get It Legal tour is coming to the Rockford Coranado Theater on March 27th. Tickets are $35 and $50 per person. I have a former police officer friend who says that pot prohibition will end in America about 5 years after…

Congressman Tom Perriello tells what is bad about Congress. “If you don’t tie our hands we will keep stealing.” And the difference between Republicans and Democrats? Republicans generally steal less. Faint praise indeed. From Real Clear Politics. H/T Jccarlton at Talk Polywell Cross Posted at Power and Control

If the Health Care Destruction Bill passes Idaho will sue the Federal Government to prevent implimentation of the individual mandate. Idaho took the lead in a growing, nationwide fight against health care overhaul Wednesday when its governor became the first to sign a measure requiring the state attorney general to sue the federal government if…

EMC2 (Polywell Fusion) has updated their site with an image of WB-8 shown above. The Drawing is labeled as “with diagnostics”. And then there is this picture: Labeled: WB-D 100MW Polywell Demo Device Your Contributions Will Help Us Design The WB-D Polywell Device Send your supporting contributions to: New Mexico Community Foundation Contact Energy Matter…

Well not so random actually. They are the working notes of anti-Drug War Lobbiest and retired Detective/Officer Howard Wooldridge. De Nile is also a river in Egypt: At a House Foreign Affairs Committee meeting this week our Deputy Secretary of State for the Americas, Mr. Valenzuela was asked by the chairman about the murders of…

If you want to read about my recent computer travails you can get a short history at Power and Control. But history is a thing of the past. I need to buy a new machine in the next day or three. I want to buy one locally – probably at Best Buy – since I…