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Obama’s Statment starts at about 7 minutes in. You should look at the statement made by LA City Council member Bernard Parks who was formerly the head of the LAPD at about 6:15 in to get the full flavor of Obama’s statement. Look at the comparison of Bush vs Obama at about 8 minutes in.…

I was most amused by the first three minutes of this video. And the slight Brit accent of the speaker. I always fall for that. Which may be part of the reason I’m a Nigel Farage fan. Besides Nigel’s last name reminds me of farrago. Which our government certainly is. Another of my Brit favorites…

Eric posted this on Facebook. Which made me want to post it here. Senator Ted Cruz attacks Obama for not locking up marijuana users in Colorado Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas on Friday criticized President Barack Obama for not arresting people in Colorado who violated federal law by using marijuana. “A whole lot of…

A WSJ editorial reminded me of an annoyance which seems less and less petty: This winter, the American Medical Association classified obesity as a disability. We need to make up our minds. We cannot logically on the one hand widen a definition of disability to include an unlimited number of conditions in order to legislate…

Anyone who doesn’t think dogs are intelligent should watch this! I better not let Coco see it.

Which may just explain why legalization is sweeping the country. The experience doesn’t match the scare stories.

A while back I did some articles on the thermodynamics of politics: A thermodynamic explanation of politics and Behavioral Sink Behavior And Thermodynamics. A recent post I did Politicians Are Deficient In Endocannabinoids got me to thinking more about the subject. That post got me to thinking that there may be more involved than just…

Politicians lack brain plasticity. They hate novelty. Which is why we are stuck. You can find more videos on the subject at The Age of FLP’s is Approaching. An FLP is a Forward Looking Person. A BLP is a Backwards Looking Person. Science Daily has an article on the subject: Political Views Are Reflected in…

Runty reacted to a Youtube video of a dog howling at a siren by howling right back at both of them. He’s got a good howl, if I may say so.

I have some new posts up at Rockford For Safe Access. Cannabis CBD Videos – one of the videos has a report by a schizophrenic. CBD – Charlotte’s Web Helping Schizophrenics with high CBD cannabis Update: This rash of medical cannabis posts was inspired by this story: New York’s medical marijuana law excludes some who…

Antismoking crusade has saved 8 million lives in 50 years, study says. Yeah. And it has gone so far that a house for schizophrenics forces them to smoke outside in well below zero weather. Schizophrenics are notorious for their tobacco smoking habit. Nice way to torture the mentally ill. But maybe forcing them to stop…

In an attempt to separate the right from Israel (it might work) Yahoo news is running Pro-Life vs. Pro-Israel. I did a series on the Jewish view on abortion a while back. Here are some links: Letter To A Friend The Jewish Position On Abortion The Jews And Partial Birth Abortion What Is A Fetus…

In what is being called “the lead-up to his State of the Union address,” President Obama plans to focus on five so-called “Promise Zones”: President Barack Obama will announce five “Promise Zones” this week as part of his effort to focus on income inequality in the lead-up to his State of the Union address. Promise…

Government attracts the corrupt. College students who cheated on a simple task were more likely to want government jobs, researchers from Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania found in a study of hundreds of students in Bangalore, India. Their results, recently released as a working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research, suggest…

Here’s something I never thought about before. The Mayor of Indianapolis has issued a scary warning: In 10 Minutes You Could Be Dead Without The Proper Clothes Wow. Talk about being a fashion victim! Seriously, what could be worse than to be dead without the proper clothes? I can’t think of a more grave issue.

I liked this juxtaposition of Drudge headlines — one right on top of the other, in this order: STUDY: Moms Who Drink Wine While Pregnant Have Better Behaved Kids… 11-Year-Old Girl Arrested for Stabbing Sleeping Mother 9 Times… Preventive drinking? If we could prevent just one monstrous kid. And if we could save just one…

You remember the Gallup Poll where 58% favored pot legalization? The number seemed a bit high. But as a proponent of legalization I was happy with it. There is a new poll out by CNN/ORC that shows 55% favor pot legalization. Not so high. Since they are both within the margin of error of each…

And from there I found this. Which lead me to: wyattmuseum.com What do I think? Interesting story. Top men are working on it. Top men. All this got started from a reading of Our Scary Technocracy. Subtitled: There are no “top men” and there never will be Which reminds me of Friedrich von Hayek’s Nobel…

No matter how awful it may become (and this is a huge storm), Coco never tires of the snow. She has a remnant of an old pair of blue jeans, and she can find it no matter what. Her goal is to embed the blue jeans remnants into the snow and then yank them back…

I’m pissed. I just learned that my convenient neighborhood supermarket will soon be closing. Neighborhood supermarkets are going by the wayside, especially those like mine which are part of a national chain which finds them outmoded. The current trend is towards super megastores which sell a lot more than groceries, and so while my local…