Author: Simon

A man purporting to represent Sam’s Club came around today offering “discounts” and government money for window replacement and other housing upgrades. He declined to leave his information. I did a quick search and couldn’t find anything on the program related to Sam’s Club. Does any one know of anything? I note that a similar…

Michael Barone thinks the Republicans may be giving up on the culture war. Finally. The Republicans for the last two decades have been a party whose litmus tests have been cultural issues, especially abortion. The tea partiers have helped to change their focus to issues of government overreach and spending. That may be a helpful…

Jeff Id visited a trade show in St. Louis and brings back a report. First, there is a definite but slight recovery in in industry at this moment. Good news. The second, is that industry is absolutely angry at what BHO and the extremists in charge are doing. Now understand, these include rank and file…

High Country News has an interesting article on how Mexico is becoming a failed state. All because of the Drug War. The man talking on the screen was recruited by the drug industry in Ciudad Juarez, sent to the state police academy, where he got around $150 a month as a student and around $1,000…

If you read my post Investing In Polywell you would know that venture capital seems interested in funding fusion start-ups. We now have more confirmation in this Finance Business article. A prominent venture capitalist, Wal van Lierop, of Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital, has begun to invest in companies (such as General Fusion) who are providing…

Famulus at Prometheus Fusion has raised enough funds through Kick Starter to get the funds released for his amateur Polywell Fusion Reactor experiments. We look forward to the results in three months or so. Small fusion is doing well. Big fusion not so much. The roughly $10 billion ITER Project in France is being delayed…

Famulus at Prometheus Fusion had a close encounter with an angel investor from Europe. He gives an account of his interactions. Famulus was kind enough to ask me for some assistance with his proposal. I also got one of my physicist friends (Dr. Mike) to help out. Famulus needs to raise funds to continue his…

Government run medicine in Britain strikes again. A man of 22 died in agony of dehydration after three days in a leading teaching hospital. Kane Gorny was so desperate for a drink that he rang police to beg for their help. They arrived on the ward only to be told by doctors that everything was…

I missed this video when it first came out. It is reporter Phelim McAleer asking Stephen Schneider some questions. Check out the totalitarian response to an inconvenient question. And just who is Stephen Schneider? He is the academic who said: “To do that we need to get some broad based support, to capture the public’s…

Could Climate Alarmists be dupes in the WAR ON COAL Consider. When it was global cooling – coal plants were the enemy. Now with warming – coal plants are the enemy. I’m beginning to detect a pattern. Perhaps James “Coal Trains are Auschwitz Trains” Hansen can tell us more. Cross Posted at Power and Control

The Tea Parties have gotten a lot of people’s shorts in a knot. Check out this video: And this response to it: Just another day in the slow hari kari of our media elites. Click on the above image and learn how to spread it around. BTW the above videos are a fine addition to…

Fox News is reporting that the bank owned by the family of Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias will fail. Democratic Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias says things don’t look good for the struggling bank his family owns. Giannoulias told the Chicago Sun-Times editorial board Wednesday that it’s likely the bank his father founded 30 years ago will…

The New York Times linked to my article Climate “Science” Is Ruining Everything. My article was about how the government gets the science it pays for. I discussed drug war “science” and how it relates to climate “science”. The NYTs thinks that the problem with climate science is not dodgy science but a failure to…

From the comments in a New York Times piece on why so many engineers in the Muslim world are terrorists: In every field and every endeavor there are those who are just as crazy as ever. But even the crazy see one thing clear: If you want something done, call an engineer. Robert Marino H/T…

Clayton Cramer is expounding at length on why pot should not be legalized. He cites a government funded study. In the comments I found this: 13. Roux’s Papa: Well – having used pot twice in my life and the second time experiencing a debilitating effect that would truly alarm a vibrant young man and exactly…

It appears that our drug prohibition enforcement agencies are in need of a PR boost. Why do I say that? Because they are recycling this story. Drug gangs taking over US public lands Not far from Yosemite’s waterfalls and in the middle of California’s redwood forests, Mexican drug gangs are quietly commandeering U.S. public land…

Any method for doing anything that cannot be sustained for 100 billion years minimum is unsustainable. Nothing is sustainable in the long term. So why not just focus on getting by with an eye towards future requirements? And let me add that the things people were doing 200 years ago were unsustainable. And 200 years…

Fox News is reporting that there is to be a redo of climate data. At a meeting on Monday of about 150 climate scientists, representatives of Britain’s weather office quietly proposed that the world’s climatologists start all over again to produce a new trove of global temperature data that is open to public scrutiny and…

The Democrats have a plan. And Bill Clinton is its leader. The Tea Party is getting too strong. It is changing the outcome of elections. Seriously. Scott Brown in Massachusets? Shaking in his boots. Big Government has learned that Clintonistas are plotting a “push/pull” strategy. They plan to identify 7-8 national figures active in the…

I was reading a story about how the US Navy exchanges officers and men with other Navies. Royal Navy Lt. Angus Essenhigh, a navigation officer, was part of that exchange. He was part of ship’s company on the USS Winston Churchill. How fitting. Essenhigh found this out when he tried to lay one of his…