Author: Simon

Just because I was interested in WW2 code breaking.            

Bloomberg TV has interviewed Ben Carson asking him about Rand Paul’s stance on vaccination. He can’t explain it. But I can.     The Government Doesn’t Own Your Children     All four of mine got vaccinated. Just in case you were wondering.

This comes from the Brits. I wonder if it is affecting the US? Yes it is. Long taken for granted as supplied by the soil and atmosphere, sulfur is slowly rising as a yield-limiting nutrient in Midwestern crops. Ken Ihlenfeld is certainly finding this to be true. The West Bend, Wis, producer farms 2,500 acres…

H/T to Tallbloke for the report. The report can be found here. Some excerpts to get the flavor: Mr Cooper said the findings were consistent with research into health impacts from early model wind turbines conducted in the US more than 20 years ago. == The findings should be used as the basis for a…

J. Park talks about what he has accomplished at EMC2 and what he hopes to do in the future. You can also watch it at Microsoft where you can see the slides shown during the talk. You can also see a discussion by guys who are into it at Talk Polywell. Update: 30 Jan 2015…

From the comments at: Congress Introduces Industrial Hemp Farming Act With Bi-partisan Support David P. West, Ph.D (Plant Breeding & Genetics)

“Look, we understood we couldn’t make it illegal to be young or poor or black in the United States, but we could criminalize their common pleasure. We understood that drugs were not the health problem we were making them out to be, but it was such a perfect issue…that we couldn’t resist it.” – John…

Governments were designed with theft in mind. If you can, get them to do your stealing for you. If you do the stealing yourself you will go to jail. If you get the government to do it for you there will be award dinners in your future. One makes you a common thief. The other…

H/T Tallbloke

This proves that a Republican Senate is totally qualified to resolve scientific questions. Let it be recorded for history that late in the afternoon of January 21, 2015, the United States Senate formally acknowledged that climate change is real. Related Stories As to that other critical question of whether human beings are contributing to it?…

You may recall that the top Republican Congress Priority was getting a Federal abortion bill passed. There seems to have been a small hitch in their social program. They don’t have the votes. In an embarrassing setback, House Republicans abruptly decided Wednesday to drop planned debate of a bill criminalizing virtually all late-term abortions after…

Attorney General Eric Holder has decided to end Federal asset forfeiture for drug crimes unless there is a conviction. “It’s high time we put an end to this damaging practice,” said David Harris, a constitutional law scholar at the University of Pittsburgh. “It has been a civil-liberties debacle and a stain on American criminal justice.”…

Washington, DC legalized recrational cannabis in the November 2014 election. There is some question if it can go into effect given the rider Republican Andy Harris added to an appropriations bill. None the less DC is going ahead with legalization by submitting the measure passed by voters to Congress for an up or down vote.…

There has been a LOT of speculation about what kept Obama from Paris when some 50 other heads of state showed up for a 3 million person march against Islamic terrorism. I think whitehouse.gov has the answer. From a speech to the UN in 2012: The future must not belong to those who slander the…

A police officer in Montana fataly shot a passenger in a car he had stopped. Billings Police Officer Grant Morrison can be seen sobbing on the hood of a police cruiser after shooting 38-year-old Richard Ramirez three times during a traffic stop. “I thought he was going to pull a gun on me,” Morrison can…

I was looking up Adrian Schoolcraft who secretly recorded the NY City police department and came across this: Rayman quotes retired NYPD detective Marquez Claxton: “The Police Department is using these numbers to portray themselves as being effective. In portraying that illusion, they have pushed these illegal quotas which force police officers to engage in…

I came across this story. The video is from March of 2014. And according to this report the police did nothing wrong. And that may be so. Or maybe not. But what attracted me and gave me the impetus to do a post was this comment from the link. Antonio Venegas I hate reading police…

For those of you with about 17 minutes to waste or who want to keep up with the latest trends and also sock puppets. I have to admit I only got a little past the 8 minute mark. But I was entertained. Ex Uno Plures tumblr headmates

The first priority of the Republican Congress appears to be the vaginas of American women. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Republicans kicked off their first day in control of the US Congress this week by moving to ban all abortions after 20 weeks, first in the House and very soon in the Senate.…

Farmageddon.com Drug War tactics applied to food? It seems unAmerican to me. But then I recall Wickard v. Filburn. But the movie does make a good point in explaining why FDA Agents need to be armed. “We have nearly 40 federal agencies that are armed. I’m not against having police, I’m not against the army,…