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Eric has just written a post about the pros and cons of buying electronics. I have just written a post for ECN about making electronics and I’m also selling. If you are super geeky and into making electronics (or just want to learn a little) check it out. I’m happy to answer any questions you…

I have a computer which runs a Core 2 Duo E6600 CPU. Although the machine is plenty fast I could stick in a faster CPU, like a Core 2 Quad Q6600 which I am told would be “twice as fast.” While keeping up with the Joneses often makes me feel twice as slow, if you…

The person on the left is George Zimmerman. The person on the right is Elizabeth Warren. Just in case you haven’t been keeping up (and who can these days?). H/T Instapundit

A write-up on safes (ostensibly a discussion of the fact that many Americans prefer to store their wealth at home as opposed to banks) reminded me of the tension between secrecy and security. Safes — even high quality safes — are not necessarily good hiding places. If a safe is found, it would become the logical…

From the comments at Wagist slightly modified. If a woman goes out with a black man because black men are reputed to have big packages, was the man racially profiled? ===== That was just too funny to pass up. ===== Further down the thread there was a mention of the supposed “big nose” correlation. I’m…

H/T Conservative Tree House

Note from the video: the prison industry has jobs. Why am I not encouraged by that? In fact the person who made the statement was not encouraged by that.

BTW a few F bombs in the videos. For those squeamish about words.

In Terry Pratchett’s books, Lady Sybil Ramkin Vimes’ family motto is “What is ours, we keep.” I’m sure it started out the way most things in Pratchett’s books started out.  The Ramkins are an old family, who intimidated their way everywhere and who conquered a lot of places and took a lot of wealth.  At…

A little something to buck up the lads. Fire as she bears. Fire on the up roll. Give ‘em a round of chain and when we get in close give ‘em the grape to clear the decks.

You got that right. The NAACP supports George Zimmerman’s position in the Sherman Ware case. And Attorney Natalie Jackson who is now working against George Zimmerman was working for Sherman Ware. So both Ryan Julison, the current media communications lead for the Trayvon Martin family, and Natalie Jackson, the current co-lead attorney representing Trayvon Martin’s…

Each and every one of you who has followed this blog for a few months knows the corruption of the Drug War. You absolutely know how bad it is at every level. What makes you think the incentives are different in any other Dept of government? The inherent goodness of people? That once people go…

Hard economic times always bring out the hidden resents papered over (heh) by money in the wallet.

Net of all the discussion? Government can only get the results it desires by stealing from someone.

Whether it’s in the New York Times, CNN or countless other places, the George Zimmerman case is becoming a well organized campaign against “Stand your ground” laws, which is a thinly veiled war against self defense itself. As I told M. Simon (who has been sending me links) in an email, I should probably be screaming…

NO! NO! NO! I am too tired to write, but some things are too much. Self driving vehicles are too much for me to bear contemplating. (My biggest worry is that they’ll start by allowing them, then end up requiring them.) As if that isn’t bad enough, they want us to be strapped into sci-fi-ish-looking…

A recap of the George Zimmerman story to date. The PR machine behind the lies Update: 1 May 2012 0354z Zimmerman’s neighbor Frank Taaffe reenacts the head pounding at the scene where Trayvon was killed – video. Why Zimmerman was “profiling” – video. H/T The Commenters At Wagist

Whether it’s setting fire to forests and meadows, poisoning fish, shooting owls, killing sea lions, or (from the latest news)  shooting cormorants, today’s environmentalists love nothing more than laying waste to the land. In the name of “the Environment” they apply policies that are about as merciful and compassionate as the Khmer Rouge. It isn’t about the Environment,…

The Conservative Tree House is looking into how Julison Communications orchestrated the rise of the Trayvon Martin case to national prominence. Ryan Julison (pictured here) was hired by Trayvon family attorney’s Natalie Jackson and Benjamin Crump to create the initial image of “Trayvon Martin” and consequently “George Zimmerman”.From the outset the media hook, created by…

When I heard about the proposed Egyptian “reform” which would legalize sex with corpses (of recently deceased spouses, although of course multiple spouses might mean multiple corpses), my initial reaction was “Talk about stiff!” Nyuk nyuk. But maybe I shouldn’t have been so flippant. After all, this is a serious legal reform in a supposedly progressive,…