Author: Simon

If you are short of time watch the last two minutes of the video. Start at about 8:30. Part 2 Much more about all this with numerous links. Scroll down. This is Republican profiting off the Drug War. Straight Inc., which was sued out of business, got Medicaid money. The head of Straight was Mel…

Did they get the rockets to stop by their actions? Did they stop fighting once the rockets stopped?

There is a discussion going on over at ECN Magazine about the morality of working to make weapons of war. In the thread there is considerable discussion of the “stolen land” in the Israel/Hamas dispute. Well I had to chime in. == Re: the stolen land dispute going on down thread. What is the general…

Jewish Girls With Guns, Chinese Netizen Reactions from 2009. One of the illustrations:

It looks like Bill Nye (The Science Guy) did an erroneous experiment proving CO2 is an atmospheric warming gas. But let us assume (for the sake of argument) that his experiment was correct. He replaced 100% air with 100% CO2 and got a 2°C temperature rise. Excellent. But CO2 is less that 1% of the…

I put this link in a previous post but I think it deserves more attention. WARNING GRAPHIC PHOTOS (RAW) – ISIS begins killing Christians in Mosul, CHILDREN BEHEADED I haven’t seen anything about this on the general news sites on the www.

It looks like Israel is on the verge of all out war with Harm Us. Let’s start with the basics. “Operation Protective Edge is continuing,” the premier stated. “No one announced its termination.” “The campaign will continue until the mission is completed: an extended period of quiet in the South,” he added, referring to Hamas…

Like it or not, what’s happening in Iraq right now is part of a rational process: What the jihadis have accomplished is grim enough, but their showoff videos of beheadings and mass executions are minor surges in what is, like it or not, a rational process: The partition of Iraq into three, rather than the…

From a Samizdata comment comes this link: Russia hits West with food import ban in sanctions row. President Vladimir Putin announced on Wednesday that Russia would retaliate against Western sanctions. The embargo will last for a year and takes effect immediately. Mr Medvedev ordered the agriculture ministry and producer organisations to find ways to boost…

It looks like the Liberty faction of the Republican Party is gaining ground with the youth. Amir Zendehnam passionately supports marijuana legalization, same-sex marriage, abortion rights and the Republican Party. He is not alone. The 26-year-old aspiring restaurateur and chairman of the party’s West Los Angeles central committee, is one of a raft of ethnically…

The above image is from The Blaze which has more to say: According to the IDF’s official blog, the manual proves that Hamas is cognizant of the fact that Israel works diligently to minimize civilian casualties and that the terror group “exploits these efforts by using civilians as human shields against advancing IDF forces.” The…

I got the link to the following piece from a comment at Samizdata. The piece looks to me to be a voice of European sanity. While the European populations are shrinking and the best-qualified young people are leaving, we continue to allow mass immigration of unqualified Muslims, who will soon make our welfare states collapse.…

Longer and IMO better version: Nothing Is True. Everything Is Permitted.

It seems that Hamas has published a pamphlet on kidnapping. A few months ago Hamas published an 18-page booklet entitled “Guide for the Kidnapper,” which includes operational guidelines for carrying out kidnappings. For example, the guide recommends to carry out kidnappings on rainy days, to use pistols with silencers, to use backup cars to move…

The 72 hour truce in Gaza lasted 90 minutes. A separate military statement said the incident took place at around 0630 GMT, 90 minutes after a 72-hour ceasefire was to have gone into effect. What was the incident? The UN said it was informed by Israel of “a serious incident this morning after the start…

Well at least for a while. A spokesman for Hamas, the Islamist group that rules Gaza, confirmed that all militant factions in the Palestinian territory had agreed to suspend violence. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office confirmed the agreement. Israel, Hamas and other Palestinian factions would travel to Cairo immediately for negotiations aimed at building…

I know this is going to go over a lot of people’s heads here. Thermodynamics is probably one of the most difficult subjects in the physical sciences. In my Nuke School Class it washed out about 1/2 the class. I got a top mark. That said – let me give you the short version. The…

First the New York Times and now National Review. Except the National Review post is a repost from 1996. That would make the Times only 18 years behind the times. The times they are a changin.

Tne New York Times has come out against Federal Marijuana prohibition. And Yahoo gives the usual pot joke headline. It gets tiresome. Don’t they have any jokes not written by Cheech and Chong? Or anything serious to say? The New York Times editorial board on Saturday… Saturday? Saturday? What exactly are they trying to hide?