Author: Simon

I was wondering. At the same time China was going opium mad, opiates (including heroin after it was invented) were freely available in the US. Could anyone explain why our use rates never approached China’s? Links if you have them. There is some evidence that during prohibition, the average age of onset of alcohol use…

I saw this comment The private sector is already creating their response to Obamacare. Primary care clinics are being opened, that offer only primary care for $25 cash. No insurance, no Obamacare, no exceptions. $25 is less than the co-pay in one of Obamacare’s crappy policies. Obamacare’s ‘pay more for less’ redistribution scheme will fail…

H/T Forbes Commenter Edna R. Sexton who said: On Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto” on Wednesday, computer programmer and founder of McAfee, Inc. John McAfee said the online component of Obamacare “is a hacker’s dream” that will cause “the loss of income for the millions of Americans who are going to lose their identities.” For starters,…

Well here is the headline: Crucial weekend for Obamacare website begins with a shutdown Which was not unexpected. At least by me. But that is not the most interesting thing I found at the “Crucial weekend…” site. I perused the comments and didn’t find one single one saying anything positive about ObamaCare(less). Evidently they are…

You can watch Naked Lunch with Peter Weller free. Well some one is paying. But other than the bandwidth (you) I have no idea who.

A little shopping music.

Pointman has a post up on the COP 19 climate conference. A taste: As predicted by all but the most deluded pundits, it actually was a complete waste of time and taxpayer’s money. It was never going to result in a Warsaw Pact. Nothing of any significance was signed up to except where the next…

I’m going to look at socialism from a little different perspective than you get from most views on it. And what is that perspective? It can be described simply as “When The State Is Her Husband”. But first I’d like you to watch a movie. The movie is a version of a play that is…

Outlaw Divorce. Well Jesus was against it. Prompted by Glenn Beck. I note Glenn divorced his first wife and after finding Jesus (I was under the impression that he was no longer available to be found – escaped from the tomb etc.) did not remarry his first wife but got another one. As far as…

Bureaucracy in action. H/T Live Leak

W.F. Price says: It doesn’t make it easier to run a society when you have to control and monitor every aspect of people’s lives…

Ever ask yourself how much of you the government owns? They own you in two ways – by giving you money and by taking away your money. Who makes the money? (hint – they print the makers name on the bills)

You can read about how cannabis helps people with PTSD at Cannabis For PTSD.

Former CIA director James Woolsey calls the Smart Grid a stupid idea. He says it would be a hacker’s dream. He talks about a hacker in Shanghai. I think what he really means is Unit 61398 of the People’s Liberation Army operating out of Shanghai or some similar Chinese government/military organization.

I think the raids are a response to Colorado legalizing pot. Today federal agents, assisted by local police, staged the biggest crackdown on marijuana dispensaries in Colorado since the state legalized cannabis for medical use in 2000. The Denver Post reports that the raids hit more than a dozen dispensaries in the Denver area, plus…

They are in fact pimps … selling out the American people for a price.

It Is All Political. White House spokesman Jay Carney denied Friday that next year’s midterm elections are the reason behind the administration’s decision to postpone the 2014 opening date for 2015 enrollment in Obamacare — from October 15 to November 15. And people are not exactly happy with the current state of Obamacare: “All we…

Today is Dallas Day. I was in Navy boot camp at the time. But that is not my JFK memory. Mine was some years earlier. I was living in Omaha and going to High School (Omaha Central). It was election night 1960. I was staying up late (probably around midnight, if I recall correctly) listening…

H/T Ed Driscoll. The link at the end of the video: Black and Right

Melanotan II A pilot Phase I clinical trial conducted on three males by the College of Medicine, Pharmacology Department, University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona published in 1996 reported that, “Melanotan II has tanning activity in humans given only 5 low doses every other day by subcutaneous injection.” The side effects reported were mild nausea…