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This is how it begins. “Reasonable” people like this former US Ambassador start to talk about “how” it could be done. If you don’t find this proposal chilling then you should be one of the first in line to have your RFID implanted. From:The Post-Gazette The disarmament process would begin after the initial three-month amnesty. [...]
That statement came from a professor of science at Carleton University. He along with another professor believe that the debate about climate change has become irrational, on both sides. Everybody needs to just calm down and back-up their arguments with proven facts and/or rationality. Via Standard Freeholder
From: Tucker Carlson via You Tube Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy introduced legislation in February that would ban weapons with certain “features”. Tucker gets her to admit she doesn’t even understand the language of her own bill.
American psycho-News-World-US & Americas-TimesOnline This is a fairly interesting article on the man who committed the vile attack on Virgina Tech University on April 16, 2007.
From: The Patriot Post In his Commonplace Book, Jefferson quotes Cesare Beccaria from his seminal work, On Crimes and Punishment: “Laws that forbid the carrying of arms… disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes… Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather [...]
Jack Thompson Blames Bill Gates for VT Shooting “…the worst school massacre in world history was at the hands of Robert Steinhaeuser, who literally trained on the Microsoft on-line, hyper-violent shooter game, Counterstrike… As you know, I similalry [sic] went on NBC’s Today Show with the DC Beltway Sniper still unidentified and at-large a few [...]
From Daily News: “Then the gunfire started coming closer. Librescu, 77, fearlessly braced himself against the door, holding it shut against the gunman in the hall, while students darted to the windows of the second-floor classroom to escape the slaughter, survivors said.” At this tragic time we should focus on the heroism of Professor Liviu [...]
From: TJ McIntyre On the wall outside his former residence – flat number 27B – where Orwell lived until his death in 1950, an historical plaque commemorates the anti-authoritarian author. And within 200 yards of the flat, there are 32 CCTV cameras, scanning every move.
There is an interesting article on Wired.com which discusses the new faux pas of labeling a work of art “science fiction”. I understand that a good amount of science fiction is poorly done and gives the genre a bad name, but science fiction done well can introduce us to new and thought provoking ideas. I [...]
There is a great post on the Technology Liberation Front blog about when to let kids start playing video games. The poster, Mr. Thierer, is himself a gamer and discusses his thought process on when and how he will let his kids enter the gaming arena. Personally, I think a gamer knows when it is [...]
Documentary Martyn Burke says that the Public Broadcasting Service and project managers at station WETA in Washington, D.C., excluded his documentary, Islam vs. Islamists, from the series America at a Crossroads after he refused to fire two co-producers affiliated with a conservative think tank. “I was ordered to fire my two partners (who brought me [...]
There is a new Battlestar Galactica game demo that runs on Macs, Windows and Linux. Demo
By D’ANNA BIERS Published: April 1, 2007 CAPRICA CITY, Caprica, 31 Ares — The skies were cloudy, the radiation levels moderate, and the cream of Cylon civilization was present in droves for the opening of the first Caprica City Starbucks. “I always used to joke: How many planets do we have to destroy to get [...]
From: Lt. Col. Oliver North/Fox News Three weeks after Pearl Harbor, nearly 100 American civilian construction contractors were killed and wounded standing shoulder-to-shoulder with U.S. Marines and sailors defending Wake Island. When the tiny garrison was overwhelmed on 23 December 1941, more than 1,000 contractors became prisoners of the Rising Sun and scores were subsequently [...]