Author: Simon

Did you know you could be on a secret no fly list? Tallbloke has the news. I’m a little late to the party but I thought it would be a good opportunity to do some Gilbert and Sullivan.

Blatantly stolen fro JoNova’s. Fortunately I mostly worked in aerospace and this sort of thing was kept to a minimum. But I did work with some college trained commercial engineers once who were convinced that rubber springs had no hysteresis. And another college guy who thought that drawing power in pulses caused no additional losses…

I found the video at Man with Parkinson’s able to Drive after Cannabis where they say: What doctors refuse to tell most people is that they can live a normal life with Parkinson’s disease and do most things others can do with the help of cannabis. Cannabis is still labeled as a schedule 1 drug…

Millennials Going Republican? I would like to think so. But the article gives the usual caveat. If Republicans fixate on social issues again, they will lose again. That is always the problem with Republicans isn’t it?

The Hamas Charter is one of the obstacles to peace between the Israelis and their neighbors. Initiatives, Peace Solutions and International Conferences Article 13: The initiatives conflict, what are called “Peaceful Solutions” and “International Conferences” to solve the Palestinian problem. As far as the ideology of the Islamic Resistance Movement is concerned, giving up any…

I was looking for news about this image which was part of a video posted here and came across this bit of news. As Israel’s Offensive Into Gaza Grows, France Bans Pro-Palestinian Protests In France the government placed a ban on Saturday’s expected rally as tensions between Jewish and Muslim communities is spiking. Citing a…

Originally found at Rap: Catchy, True, Sad One of the images was in response to the police burning a baby in a drug raid. Proceeds from sales of the video will go to that baby: “Money from sales willl be donated to support Baby Bou Bou, the baby who was hit by the SWAT team…

In an article about a teen who was killed by a police woman while answering the door with something in his hand (a Wii controller according to the family) a commenter explains the law: Police officers have an exception under title F, section Y, subsection T, paragraph W. For further elucidation read this post.

Some one (suspected to be a Russian separatist fighter. The separatists in my opinion are at least lead by Russian special forces teams) has shot down a Malaysian Airliner with 295 aboard at the Russian/Ukranian border. Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 shot down over territory held by Pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine Body parts and wreckage…

Australia has rescinded their carbon tax. As of today, Australia no longer has the most expensive “carbon” price in the world. The voters didn’t ask for a tax in 2010, but it was forced on them in 2011. They rejected it wholeheartedly in 2013 but it still has taken months to start unwinding this completely…

Some commenters at Reason are discussing the pros and cons of toll roads. One commenter said: Tolls reduce congestion. To which I responded: I prefer cough medicine.

Reason Magazine is discussing the problems marijuana businesses in Colorado are having paying taxes. In order to pay the taxes properly the businesses would have to break quite a few Federal laws. A commenter explains the clause in the Constitution that covers both pot prohibition and the behavior of the IRS. WTF 7.11.14 @ 2:43PM…

From the Coalition to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol.

Scanners used to track shipments of goods all over the planet are infected with Chinese malware. Here are some of the things it does. The scanned data (origin, destination, contents, value, to, from, etc.) was copied and sent out to an established comprehensive command and control connection (CnC) to a Chinese botnet that was terminated…

In the beginning of the video he follows the money and explains why we have a parrot brigade singing CO2 doom.

You can watch a more recent appearance of Chris in Las Vegas (the Monkton stuff begins at 32 minutes into the video): Christopher Monckton at Las Vegas Chris is highly entertaining. If he wasn’t into other things he could be a Las Vegas act.

What if the Green Movement is not saving the planet but enslaving humanity? You can get the movie Blue from Amazon.

The above chart which shows that volcanic activity increases during cool periods in Earth’s climate was something I first saw around 2007. I got the graph from “Ice Age Now” where a commenter had this to say: as a sound engineer, i notice the oscilations of these cycles, or waves….notice how they come closer togheter,…