Global Warming (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
I prepared this list of my most read posts. You may find it helpful, though it mostly reflects the vagaries of the google search engine. I have done some odd stuff that I would expect to attract comment only to see it completely ignored. Other items I unexpectedly see every day even after a year or more. What I most welcome from readers is the occasional pointer to a source site that I may have overlooked...
third world county (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
While Jerry Pournelle eschews such loaded terms as “Obumascare” his observation in today’s Chaos Manor View certainly gives one pause: If it cost $300 million to get Landrieu to vote to allow the bill to be debated, what in the world will it cost to get her to vote for the bill itself? And now that [...]
Workbench (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
For the last two years I've voted in the Hugo Awards , yearly literary honors for science fiction and fantasy (but mostly science fiction). I skipped the best novel category because I hadn't read most of the works, which is no fun at all since that's the biggest award. So when the 2010 Hugos are decided next spring, I'd like to have completed enough of the nominated novels to make an informed vote....
DYSPEPSIA GENERATION (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Jerry Pournelle takes a long look. Are all Muslims enemies of everyone not part of the House of Submission to Islam? But it all depends on how you define “Muslim” and even more importantly, how the Muslim scholars who define Islam define Muslim; and there the [...]
Planet-x.com.au (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
One of my favorite SF books (at least, I think it's SF) is Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. I suppose movies like Deep Impact or Armageddon could be based on it, but I think it's story was much more interesting (more ...
Miss Kelly (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Of the many op-eds, columns and blogposts about the Ft. Hood massacre, I think these two by Jerry Pournelle and Mark Steyn capture the two most salient points of the tragedy:Jerry Pournelle's blogpost discusses the treasonous nature of Major Nidal Malik Hasan's actions and the criminal oversight of the U.S....
The Ten O'Clock Scholar (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Found via Instapundit . Jerry Pournelle opines : “Unemployment is over 10%. It wasn’t supposed to get that high. TARP was supposed to fix that. . . . If the health care bill passes, it will fundamentally convert these United States into a different kind of popular democracy, which generally means rule by a unionized bureaucracy organized to vote. Once that much of the economy is run by...
Ride Fast & Shoot Straight (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
U.S. Army Major Hassan seems to have ended his career as a traitor, but I have to wonder how bad he could have gotten before the Army decided to do something about him. He seemed to be advocating for the enemy (voicing support for suicide bombers), was opposed to the war (and agitating against it), tried very hard to avoid overseas deployment and God only knows what he said to his psychiatric patients....
Protein Wisdom (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
Writer Jerry Pournelle has a balanced view of how things work. This one is no different. h/t Reynolds. Meanwhile today may be the most important vote in Congress since the days of the New Deal. If the health care bill passes, it will fundamentally convert these [...]
Infidel Bloggers Alliance (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
From American Digest : Section 3. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. Jerry Pournelle looks at the traitor who killed 13 soldiers at Fort Hood: I would presume...
Sense of Events (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
The full-bore media and blog frenzy about the motivations of Ft Hood's shooter suspect, Maj. Nidal Hasan, is fully underway. After Ft Hood's commanding general told The Today Show that Hasan was the shooter and that Hasan shouted " Allahu akbar, " "Allah is great," while firing, I posted that he was unwittingly setting the stage for Hasan's acquittal , if Hasan is ever brought to...
DYSPEPSIA GENERATION (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Jerry Pournelle on the Ft. Hood incident. I would presume that arming oneself and shooting 43 US soldiers is (1) levying war against the United States, and (2) an overt act, and that Major Hassan should be charged with treason. I would further argue [...]
The Whig (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
From Jerry Pournelle , via Instapundit: One estimate is that 500 nuclear power plants would make America energy independent. I think that is optimistic in that an abundance of electricity doesn't mean we won't need to import oil for transportation needs, but it would certainly take us a long way toward independence. The cost would be in the order of 2 billion per plant (I would think less; that is...
THE BIG FEED (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
A short essay from Jerry Pournelle (one of my...
DYSPEPSIA GENERATION (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
Jerry Pournelle takes a look. Population growth: there is now a scheme to persuade people for not having kids by giving them a carbon credit. Like all population limiting schemes, this one seems designed to breed those who pay attention to [...]
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