Author: Simon

Control Limits Wm. Burroughs: Consider a control situation: ten people in a lifeboat. two armed self-appointed leaders force the other eight to do the rowing while they dispose of the food and water, keeping most of it for themselves an doling out only enough to keep the other eight rowing. The two leaders now need…

Trump in his acceptance speech has vowed to continue making War on 10% of the American population. I’m sure he has plans for the other 90%. They all do. Eventually. Control always requires more control. And Hillary would be worse. Damn.

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What kind of government declares war on its own citizens? This kind. and This kind.

The Republicans have a platform. It has lots to say about Drugs but I especially liked this. We thank our neighbors in Mexico and Canada who have been our partners in the fight against terrorism and the war on drugs. In light of this: I started to ask Ehrlichman a series of earnest, wonky questions…

I’m having a discussion with a Christian about the applicability of the Old Testament (OT) to Christianity. I said: If the OT is the word of God not a bit of the laws in it can be abrogated. If you start cancelling laws (and one of the Big Ten at that [note: stoning adulterers]) then…

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” – Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

In my post Newt On Opiates I said: So let me tell you what I think. Congress is in the process of ending Drug Prohibition by passing bills one at a time. And when there is not much public uproar they pass another. They will keep doing this until Federal Prohibition is gutted. When that…

But I don’t like Hillary more.

Since we cover Drug Prohibition heavily around her I think it is time to at least make some commentary on Newt Gingrich’s Time Magazine article on how to treat opiate addiction. You will recall that Gingrich is one of Trump’s top advisors. Treat America’s Opioid Epidemic With Medication Science is on our side. Studies show…

There is a coup under way in Turkey. There are reports Erdogan has left the country and is seeking refuge in England. Erdogan has blamed the coup on Fethullah Gülen who lives in Pennsylvania. The movement has been characterized as a “moderate blend of Islam.”[11][12] Gülen and the Gülen movement are technology-friendly, work within current…

And he is a Prohibitionist. We must support new ways to confront the growing epidemic of drug abuse and addiction. Let’s pass stiffer penalties on those who sell these poisons to our kids. Even Newt Gingrich is saying these days that drug addiction is a medical problem with a genetic component. Something I have been…

Of course Newt once had some Americans targeted for a war. The usual for Republicans. How To Put an End to Drug Users. Newt on the missing Drug Prohibition Amendment. But he may be changing his tune. Gingrich, Kennedy and Jones: Treat America’s Opioid Epidemic With Medication.

I just came across a really different view of economics. The Federal Reserve had the freedom to lower the Fed Funds rate all the way down to 1% in 2004, and while observers expected this would finally cause inflation, it still did not. Relatively few economists were particularly curious about why that might be, since…

In the news: Legal Marijuana Linked to Fewer Opioid Prescriptions. The opening paragraph is rather inartful so let me rephrase it. In States where cannabis is legal the number of opiate prescriptions has declined. The author adds a little ways down in the article that Big Pharma lobbies against cannabis. Funny enough Congress has just…

It is financial news actually. Really.

I was having a discussion with a tech buddy of mine (stepper motors) and the talk naturally turned to politics. My buddy (a Canadian) is going back to Canada. One of the reasons he gave was American politics. The talk naturally turned to Trump. We both agreed (from perusal of the ‘net) that Trump supporters…

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