Author: Simon

Either scripts and active content are not permitted to run or Adobe Flash Player version10.0.0 or greater is not installed. I dunno. If I was to say anything about this I’d have to say that racial harmony in America is farther away than ever. See: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the…

WebMD Which did the poll has the results. 69% say it can help with certain treatments and conditions. 67% say it should be a medical option for patients. 56% support making it legal nationwide. 50% of doctors in states where it is not legal say it should be legal in their states. 52% of doctors…

And who better to lead it than Vladimir Putin? Says Pat Buchanan in a piece entitled “Whose Side Is God On Now?” This writer was startled to read in the Jan-Feb. newsletter from the social conservative World Council of Families in Rockford, Ill., that, of the “ten best trends” in the world in 2013, number…

Eric sent me this link a while back but I have been busy and didn’t post it. It is time. The video came from Cannabis Planet. The video is excerpts from an interview with Dr. Christina Sanchez who is a molecular biologist at Compultense University in Madrid Spain. She found that THC does indeed kill…

There is a biological system hidden in the body. Why is it hidden? Because, although well known by researchers it is only taught in a minor way (if at all) in Medical Schools and not discussed at all in the popular press. What if I were to tell you that the Endocannabinoid system (or ECS):…

This was sent to me by my #2 son who is currently living in Moscow managing a grocery store. My family has been in the grocery business since the early 1900s. I worked in the family store growing up. Too funny. And he is a UChicago graduate (with honors) – jobs are hard to find.…

Interesting discussion going on at Reason about vaccination – should it be mandatory? The best answer? Holgar|3.25.14 @ 10:45PM|# I wonder how the people who feel “It’s my choice whether I vaccinate or not” feel about letting food service workers choose whether or not to wash their hands.

Little Richard from back when dirty was clean. The original by Little Richard:

“Law enforcement always follows the drugs, because that leads to drug thugs no one cares about,” according to one former Federal official familiar with the case. “Following the money, which is much more effective, is discouraged, because it leads to the suits—bankers, politicians, law enforcement types—people with social and political clout.” Daniel Hopsicker at Mad…

Pat Buchanan in one of his rare useful observations says that the European experiment is cracking up. He does not mean binging on cocaine. But the most startling news on the nationalist front last week came in Venice and the Veneto region, where 89 percent of a large turnout in a non-binding referendum voted to…

Pointman has a new post up on how he sabotages the Green Movement (Heil Gaia) by agreeing with them in an over the top way. It is hilarious. A typical stunt by him (a her when with the Greenies) is calling for Nuremberg trials for deniers followed by hangings. “My adepts stand upright; their head…

I’m beginning to wonder how the drug warriors can sleep at night. Ah. I forgot. Honor dies where interest lies. Or the American version: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” – Upton Sinclair This fits in with what Eric had to say…

A system me and a few friends have been working on for the last couple of years is nearing completion of development. It is a tiny controller board that harkens back to the early days of computers. Although it is big by those standards. It has 32K of ROM (Flash actually – no programmer required)…

I no fan of the wind industry so when I came across “Gaslighting” by the Wind Industry I had my suspicions (and knowledge) confirmed. How often are we told by the wind industry that their development will create so many jobs, so much power to “X” number of households and that their will be no…

Pointman has a terrific piece up A climate of deception, deceit, lies and outright dishonesty. You should read the whole thing. It was prompted by this Jo Nova bit: Busted: 120 gibberish science papers withdrawn — so much for “peer review”. For those of you into electronics the IEEE published about 100 of the papers.

I think it is getting colder.

From 1969. Firesign Theater, anticipating GPS by at least 20 years. The full album: How Can You Be Two Places At Once When You’re Not Anywhere at all H/T Chief IO Sensitivity Training Is Evil.

A friend of mine was touting the marvels of solar energy in Hawaii. So I wrote him something to try to get him back to reality. Hawaii has always had very high energy costs. They can afford the high cost of “Green”. That is mitigated to some extent by the tropical climate moderated by oceans.…

“The practical form of a capitalist is a capitalist. The practical form of an anarchist is a terrorist. The practical form of a socialist is a thief.” – Aaron Haspel. Stolen from a Facebook friend of a friend.

And I believe it involves taking it. The savings of the European Union’s 500 million citizens could be used to fund long-term investments to boost the economy and help plug the gap left by banks since the financial crisis, an EU document says. The EU is looking for ways to wean the 28-country bloc from…