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Since there is so much Green Money coming out of Washington it looks like a lot of people want in on the act. There is a lot of wind in the upper Mid-West but not many power lines. So a company is proposing that the government get behind building some new power lines. ITC Holdings…

I’m now officially on the road, having stopped in LA to help an artist with a kiln problem. Being wIthout Internet access where I’m staying, I decided to check email at a local place called the Lyric Cafe, on Hyperion and Lyric. (Good coffee.) I’m just lucky as hell that M. Simon has been blogging…

Dave Price at Dean Esmay has done a post that I should have done. He is discussing Physicist Rick Nebel’s report on the latest Polywell Fusion experiments. Dean goes into the technical nitty gritty of the report (and has a link to where the discussion took place) and if that interests you by all means…

It looks like the Obama administration has found the perfect cure for our medical crisis and our Social Security crisis. Kill off old people. Republican Senators are questioning whether President Barack Obama’s stimulus bill contains the right mix of tax breaks and cash infusions to jump-start the economy. Tragically, no one from either party is…

Keeping an eye on the supply and demand of basic commodities can tell a lot about the direction the economy is headed in. Cross Posted at Power and Control

Lucky she didn’t try “bong head”. Although lighting it would probably have been more fun than torching the pot. Cross Posted at Power and Control

For those of you who haven’t been keeping up, Michael Phelps who won 14 Olympic Gold Medals in Swimming has also been caught smoking a bong. Graphic evidence has been provided. Naturally his sponsors are not happy. But the sponsor’s customers are unhappy that the sponsors are unhappy. As part of its damage control efforts…

It looks like the Obama administration has accidentally given the economy a boost. Due to the overwhelming increase in orders, it has become increasingly difficult to predict deliveries for all Rock River Arms’ products. Because of this, we are no longer quoting estimated delivery dates. We are continuing to increase production, build, and ship products…

Sgt. Mom, blogging under the pseudonym Celia Hayes, left this comment at Althouse about the Obama Administration. “I knew it was gonna be a train wreck, but I thought it would have pulled out of the station, first!” Sgt. Mom writes books. You should read some. H/T Instapundit Cross Posted at Power and Control

So I’m Googling around type “Obama” into Google and the #2 item on the list with over 8 million references is “Obama jokes”. Well I got to get me some of those. My favorite so far is “Barack Obama is President of the United States”. I’m sure he will get funnier as time goes on.…

I’ve had no time to get online lately, but I loved the nostalgic nugget that Glenn linked earlier : So you have a former Weather Underground member who now is pro-military, throwing shoes at the anti-military Socialist Mayor, in a protest that would fall under the “community of sanctuary” protection if the protester still was…

Yes. When I first learned of this practice I was shocked. What kind of mother would do such a thing? Cannabinoids, whether plant-derived, synthetic or endogenous, have been shown to stimulate appetite in the adult organism. We have reported previously that cannabinoid receptors play a critical role during the early suckling period: Then comes a…

It seems as if we have a new kind of economic privilege in America. The Senate voted Tuesday to give a tax break to new car buyers, setting aside bipartisan concerns over the size of an economic stimulus bill with a price tag approaching $900 billion. The 71-26 vote came as President Barack Obama said…

India has a lot of people to educate. It is trying to work out ways of automating the process. One of those ways is the design of a $20 (US) laptop called the Sakshat. The Sakshat is planned to boost distance learning so as to allow India to meet its vast educational requirements: It has…

India thinks it needs a $20 laptop to educate its population. India is planning to produce a laptop computer for the knockdown price of about $20, having come up with the Tata Nano, the world’s cheapest car at about $2,000. The project, backed by New Delhi, would considerably undercut the so-called “$100 laptop”, otherwise known…

President Present is running into resistance from the Pentagon over has troop withdrawal plans. The Times reported that Odierno had “developed a plan that would move slower than Mr. Obama’s campaign timetable” and had suggested in an interview “it might take the rest of the year to determine exactly when United States forces could be…

Commenter windmill at Talk Polywell has brought to my attention an interesting power supply company Diversified Technologies Inc. Here are a couple of short (under 10 pages) papers that explain the technology. Solid State High Voltage DC Power Distribution & Control [pdf] Here is the key point from the above [pdf]. The largest cost components…

Now that things are finally winding down and my long trip back to Ann Arbor is looming ahead, I’ve been checking the omens and portents, because more than anything else, I want to avoid driving in snow or ice. Yesterday was Groundhog Day, and an exceptionally vicious one: Staten Island’s famous groundhog, Charles G. Hogg,…

The CHANGElings are out in force and full of HOPE. Finally the politicians are going to listen. Our Politician In Chief says so. “I will open the doors of government and ask you to be involved in our own democracy again. Well Mr. President Present (or absent as the case may be) we live in…

The groundhog has spoken.