Author: Simon

The US Navy has just published a Justification and Award for EMC2’s Polywell Fusion Reactor experiment. The highlights: * The award is for $10 million * WB-8.0 report to be delivered 30 March 2010 * WB-8.1 report to be delivered 30 March 2012 The WB-8.1 effort is contingent on success with WB-8.0 experiments. What does…

Eric asks that in his recent post on Kevin Jennings in response to my post on Kevin Jennings (for sure the Google rankings are going up now). He says something to the effect of: “is it good to be demonizing Jennings because of one incident between a boy and an older man which on the…

It has been my observation that people who preach “working for the greater good” always wind up picking your pocket, imprisoning you, or worse. In general I prefer the company of cutthroats and thieves to ecclesiasticals. The thieves and cutthroats are more honest. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Cross Posted at Power and Control

ACORN is in big trouble in Harry Reid’s home state, Nevada. A preliminary hearing Tuesday in the downtown Clark County courthouse has put ACORN on trial for the first time as a criminal defendant. Until now, prosecutions for voter registration fraud have focused on ACORN workers, and authorities have secured guilty pleas from several who…

Kevin Jennings, Obama’s Safe Schools “Czar”, is in the news. So I thought this bit from Atlas Shrugs might be of interest. President Obama has appointed Kevin Jennings, founder of GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network) — which sponsored the conference that produced the notorious “Fistgate” scandal (in which young teens were guided on how…

The Democrats plan to pass their health care bill next Thursday. The Washington Post front page blares today: “Prospects for Public Option Dim in Senate.” Don’t believe it. Yes, the Senate Finance Committee did vote down two amendments that each would have added a government-run insurance plan to the committee’s health care bill. But two…

This is a tale of forensics and what appears to be scientific fraud. And wouldn’t you know it: climate hysteria. Let me start with the famous hockey stick. It is a graph showing unprecedented global warming at the end of the 20th century. It was the icon of global warming hysteria. The wiki has the…

Sarah Palin’s book Going Rogue: An American Life is available for pre-order on Amazon and it is already up to #5 and there is not even a picture of the dust jacket available. I guess she is not as popular as every one thought. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Wretchard and his commenters are discussing what to do before there is a breakdown in civilization. Of course there is the usual – buy guns and ammo. But what else could help? Stock up on tools. Even cheap Chinese stuff if it is not too junky. Voltmeters and for those who are somewhat adept –…

The speaker in the video is Mr. James Duane, a professor at Regent Law School and a former defense attorney. Yeah. Don’t talk. The Mafia Code of Omerta. Silence. The Video explains why. Here is Part 2 by a police officer in case you need more reasons. Which brings up this book: Three Felonies a…

According to The Daily Express UK Saudi Arabia has green lighted an Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. INTELLIGENCE chief Sir John Scarlett has been told that Saudi Arabia is ready to allow Israel to bomb Iran’s new nuclear site. The head of MI6 discussed the issue in London with Mossad chief Meir Dagan and…

Illinois Republicans are making efforts to connect the Democrats to the SEIU in the race for Obamas old Senate Seat. Roland “I am not a crook” Burris (D – Crook County) is currently keeping the seat warm. Illinois Republicans are using a union endorsement Democrat Alexi Giannoulias received Thursday to again try to make disgraced…

Bill Whittle has a marvelous video that you should watch. And what is Breitbart’s strategy for continuing the attack? In a word make ACORN sue him. Which it has done. What was O’Keefe and Gile’s response when a suit was first mooted? “Bring it on.” Kathleen Parker suggests the next front in the war. SEIU.…

Texas is slated to get a really big battery to improve grid reliability. Electric Transmission Texas LLC (ETT) has completed a contract with NGK-Locke, Inc. for a state-of-the-art, sodium-sulfur 4-megawatt NAS battery system, which will be installed in Presidio, Texas. ETT is a joint venture between American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) and MidAmerican Energy Holdings…

Linearthinker suggested this article on how LSD led to the discovery of DNA. FRANCIS CRICK, the Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, was under the influence of LSD when he first deduced thedouble-helix structure of DNA nearly 50 years ago. The abrasive and unorthodox Crick and his brilliant American co-researcher James Watson famously celebrated their…

I was having a discussion about this and that at Talk Polywell and one of my correspondents said: …many of them both unnecessary and unsustainable. A truly civilized society would maintain an ecological balance and still be able to visit the planets. And I said: Humanity is unsustainable. We will go on for as long…

It seems some one helped Mr. Obama write Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. Christopher Andersen in Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage says it was American terrorist Bill Ayres. Ron Radosh had this to say about it. Obama had not as yet written anything. But he had taped…

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside. William S. Burroughs

In the above video the ACORN outers, Hanna Giles and James O’Keefe, say about potential suits from ACORN, “Bring It On”. Well ACORN has brought it on. Community activist group ACORN is suing the makers of a hidden-camera video that showed employees of its Baltimore office giving tax advice to a man posing as a…