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**Posted by Phineas Because the future is frightening. First, a BBC news video to show you what the fuss is all about: The Telegraph describes it thus: Instructions for making The Liberator, a plastic handgun that could escape detection by conventional airport security, were today made freely available to download from the internet by anti-government [...]
**Posted by Phineas Because there is nothing the Evil Demon of Climate Change cannot do! So speaketh Representative Barbara Lee, Democrat of (I’m sorry to say) California (1) : Several House Democrats are calling on Congress to recognize that climate change is hurting women more than men, and could even drive poor women to “transactional sex” [...]
**Posted by Phineas Via Money Jihad, here’s what’s publicly known of their resources: U.S. News reports that “The larger Tsarnaev family ended up living on public assistance in Cambridge, Mass,” which in context of the article was probably around 2010. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev received a $2,500 scholarship from the city of Cambridge in May 2011 to [...]
**Posted by Phineas Not yet, but a Berkeley (natch) city councilor thinks it’s a grand idea: Gordon Wozniak, a Berkeley city councilman, proposed taxing email messages during a recent city council meeting in an effort to reduce the spread of “spam,” or unwanted emails. Wozniak also said an email tax could raise money to keep [...]
**Posted by Phineas It’s a beautiful day here in Southern California: sunny, not too warm, and a bright cloudless sky. A good day for getting out and about and maybe having a late lunch down by the beach. Or just taking the first of several naps. But, fear not! You’ll not be bereft of reading [...]
**Posted by Phineas Or their innovative technology: Recently, I found myself thrust in the middle of a kerfuffle when CBS ordered its subsidiary CNET to remove a product from consideration for a “Best of CES” award at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show. I can never recall any major media company, much less a top-tier First Amendment protector likeCBS, publicly mandating an editorial [...]
**Posted by Phineas One of the truisms of investing is that you have to watch out for the “discontinuous innovation” — the unexpected development or invention that renders your investing plan worthless. The classic example is the “buggy whip industry” after the development of automobiles. Something similar can be said of the statist need to [...]
**Posted by Phineas Well, there’s the Christmas spirit for you: A music professor in Austria (musicology professors being known experts in science) has decided that skeptics of anthropogenic global warming (1) are so endangering the planet that, if they do not recant, they should all be executed: Prof Richard Parncutt says: “I have always been opposed to the [...]
**Posted by Phineas Because, y’know, we must all sacrifice for Gaia (1). Mary Katherine Ham summarizes at Hot Air: It’s just a 100-year-old company and California’s only surviving cannery, a sustainable, family-owned operation employing 30 people. The Drakes Bay Oyster Company has been in a seven-year fight with the federal government and environmental groups over [...]
**Posted by Phineas Now there’s an “inconvenient truth” for the Church of Anthropogenic Global Warming. And the source is none other than the UK’s Met Office, a veritable temple of the faith: The world stopped getting warmer almost 16 years ago, according to new data released last week. The figures, which have triggered debate among [...]