Author: Simon

The Islamic State that is. According to our misesteemed Secretary of State, John fn Kerry. The Voice of America (which America?) has it. Kerry said Islamic State jihadists claim to be fighting on behalf of Islam, but said the group’s activities have nothing to do with Islam. He said, “Its message of hate is rejected”…

We militarized the police to fight a war on those people. The hearing, convened to probe “police militarization” in the wake of the police response to protests in Ferguson, Mo., focused on three federal programs designed to help local police departments respond to drug crime and terrorist attacks. Lawmakers and witnesses suggested that programs have…

My four year old Gateway hard drive has given up the ghost. I have spare hard drives and backups but I can’t get them to install. Pity. It is a very nice machine. If anyone has an old Win 7 machine they wan to get rid of my e-mail is on the sidebar here. Well…

Made with a 3D printer. Details of the project can be found here. I have designed a set of electronics – motor drivers and master controller for 3D printers and table top CNC machine tools. You can read about them at the bottom of this page.

Well that is not what they think they doing. They think they are striking for higher wages. The next round of strikes by fast-food workers demanding higher wages is scheduled for Thursday, and this time labor organizers plan to increase the pressure by staging widespread civil disobedience and having thousands of home-care workers join the…

The first mate sent me this link. I like # 6. 6. Too much TV: Watching TV is a ”no brain” activity and the research is compelling.

Another version Happy Labour Day.

Back before the ‘net got irretrievably crazy I used to correspond with Ariana Huffington about the Drug War. She was putting on a drug war conference around 2000. Shadow political conventions she called them. I think she was still a Republican back then. In any case the link was to this Reason article: The Literal…

From the comments at Samizdata. Paul Marks August 29, 2014 at 7:51 pm The Islamists are what Edmund Burke called an “armed doctrine” – they make no secret of the fact that (like the Jacobins and Nazis and Marxists) they seek to spread their system by force – all around the world. Peace is not…

Obama was going to avoid being another George Bush. He has succeeded. Obama has made no effort to hide his antipathy to open-ended engagements in the Middle East, despite potent but limited campaigns against Al-Qaeda in Pakistan and in Libya. Well he got us out of Iraq. And thereby opened the gates of hell. There…

Evidently over 1,400 girls have been raped in Britain over the course of a few years. Why was nothing done about it by the authorities? They feared being called racist for singling out Asians. Which Asians Chinese? Burmese? Well no. Muslims.

You can read the whole post here. I thought I’d just leave you with the tagline: Instead of accusing their Democratic opponents of being Republicans, the GOPers might want to take a moment to ponder why that charge is such an effective negative attack?

There is no racism among our police. Well maybe just an isolated incident. Well maybe just a few isolated incidents. Well maybe just a lot of isolated incidents. But they are isolated. And rare. And isolated. When asked if he did something to threaten the police officers, he responded, “No, actually I was pinned to…

Harm Us: Our War is For Liberating Jerusalem, Not Lifting Blockade. Hamas’s true objective in Operation Protective Edge – and negotiations that may follow – is in “liberating” Jerusalem from the Jews, a Hamas spokesman stated earlier this week. The folks in Harm Us must be really delusional. Either that or some one is forcing…

The Republicans hope to take the Senate. Colorado is one of the States up for grabs. Cory Gardner, the Republican candidate for the Senate, voted to continue DEA raids in States that have legalized medicinal cannabis. Last week, we shared news about the U.S. House voting to defund DEA medical marijuana raids in states where…

Bearings: The Achilles Heel of Wind Turbines. A few years ago, I used to know a senior wind turbine engineer. One evening, over a few beers, he told me the dirty secret of his profession: “The problem is the bearings. If we make the bearings bigger, the bearings last longer, but making the bearings larger…

I have just launched another IndieGoGo campaign called Go Further. It features our latest MCU Board the LPC1114. Also included is our latest FISH Forth development software which you can get for free here. Referenced in the campaign is our plan to develop a set of stepper motor boards for Desktop CNC and 3D printers.…

From a comment I made here. (revised and edited) Thing is, Drug Prohibition was built on a similar tissue of lies but previous to the Global Warming scam. The lies have been similarly debunked. But Prohibition lives on. Maybe they (the Powers) thought – “well if we have pulled this off, we can pull that…

I was visiting Micahael Totten’s and some one left the video in the comments.

From the comments: “I was OK with the lies about Obamacare. I liked the fact that the IRS was persecuting Obama’s political opponents. I didn’t care that he was arming Mexican drug cartels. I could understand how his foreign policy betrayed our friends and sucked up to our enemies, and got nothing in return. I’m…