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The clip is from the movie “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” a movie about Hunter S. Thompson. One of the premier writers of his time. He wrote a book called “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream“. He sent me an e-mail once saying he…

A nice little image I found floating around on Facebook.   More and more people are catching on to something which should have been obvious. (Er, at least as obvious as it was to the founders.)

There appears to be a very large break out politically with respect to marijuana since President Obama came out against prohibition. Harry Reid said in the last week that medical marijuana is alright by me. All right! And then there is Shenna Bellows who says she is a libertarian progressive (WHAT?), who is running for…

I’m an Aleister Crowley fan. Eight Lectures On Yoga is freely available at the link. When I first undertook the investigation of Yoga, I was fortunately equipped with a very sound training in the fundamental principles of modern science. I saw immediately that if we were to put any common sense into the business (science…

Well this just plain sucks: Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) predicted Sunday that lawmakers who favored shutting down the bulk collection of telephone metadata would not be successful in their efforts as Congress weighs potential reforms to the nation’s controversial intelligence programs. “I don’t believe so,” Feinstein said during an appearance on NBC’s…

American Thinker: The Democrat’s 2012 Victory Plan from September 2011. I was about a year and a half early. So it is not like I wasn’t warning Republicans of the upcoming danger of sticking with Prohibition. Not to mention my words around here for the last couple of years. Thank The Maker for the Rand…

As if I needed a reminder of how much the Culture War sucks, M. Simon’s post did it for me. I have been saying for quite some time that the Democrats would be using marijuana prohibition as a pivot in at least the next two elections given that the Republican base is avowedly prohibitionist. I…

This is the result of that training:                 Why did I make the image so small? Because it is really ugly. The full size image can be found here. So how about the trial of the police officers? An Orange County jury Monday found two former Fullerton police…

I have been saying for quite some time that the Democrats would be using marijuana prohibition as a pivot in at least the next two elections given that the Republican base is avowedly prohibitionist. I expected the Democrats to start in on the issue this summer. They must be hurting badly because they have started…

He talks about Canada. The same thing happens in the US.

Peter Christ is a retired Police Captain from Syracuse, NY. He is speaking at The St Albans Rotary Club. Brought to you by Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. With a supporting role (as a Capitol Hill lobbyist) Citizens Opposing Prohibition. Inspired by The morality police are fighting for their very livelihood! and Cannabis Legalization Panics DEA…

Lately, people — especially those who have the power to tell others what to do or imagine themselves charged with telling them what to think — are absolutely freaking out about marijuana. TV celebrity and former prosecutor Nancy Grace is hopping mad: On Tuesday, Nancy Grace claimed that people on marijuana shoot, stab and strangle…

Ah. Yes. There is a panic at the DEA. Where will all this lead? A loss of jobs is definitely in the works. Panic is probably in order. The agent is being interrogated by Senator Grassley. You can’t make this shite up. Senator Chuck is a Republican. An 80 year old Republican. Well versed in…

From Reason Magazine. “You can refuse this swab, you can refuse a breathalyzer, you can refuse to participate in a field sobriety test, you can refuse to answer questions,” says criminal defense attorney Mark Gallagher. “Now, law enforcement doesn’t like this advice, but we do still have a constitution.” They can punish you for refusing…

M. Simon emailed me a link about a wonderful new technology I’d read about before, which is, simply, PRINTING A HOUSE. When I was a kid, they painted houses; now they print them, which is wonderful. The savings are dramatic in the extreme, but as Simon warns, The real problem with housing is not structure. It…

Ulsterman has links (which I will repeat here) about divorce talk in the Obama household. Michelle is unhappy. Good for her. So are we. Mostly about his political acts though. National Enquirer. Only weeks after Obama publicly humiliated the first lady by snapping a “selfie” with a dishy blonde for­eign leader, the first couple’s shaky…

A number of my friends on Facebook are decrying the over regulation of the legal cannabis market in Colorado and elsewhere. They seem to overlook the fact that every tool the government uses to regulate gets taken over by the regulated. Regulatory capture. The answer of course is: Deregulation     It is ironic that…

Nothing from Fukushima. Now consider this from the NIH – Radiation Hormesis: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Three aspects of hormesis with low doses of ionizing radiation are presented: the good, the bad, and the ugly. The good is acceptance by France, Japan, and China of the thousands of studies showing stimulation and/or…

Sheet metal screws can save your life! The streets and sidewalks are covered with sheets of ice, and I have to walk the dogs. Worse yet, a new storm descended on Ann Arbor, dumping fresh snow all over the ice. There is no way to know where or how to walk, and it is so…

I just learned a new concept. “Predictive policing.” It came up in a discussion of Eric’s “Your husband owns a gun,” he says. “Where is it?” So I thought a new word was in order. GuessStoppo We will be seeing GuessStoppo raids before long.