Stossel on Education
February 20th, 2010 by drs
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Sarah Palin Interview – Fox News Sunday
February 7th, 2010 by drs
Tags: Chris Wallace, Conservative, fox news sunday, interview, Sarah Palin, Tea Party Movement, Teaparty, VideoPosted in
Sarah Palin Keynote and Q&A at Tea Party Convention
February 7th, 2010 by drs
Sarah Palin’s Keynote Speech plus a Question and Answer session at the Tea Party Convention in Nashville, TN. February 6th, 2010
Tom Snyder Interviews Durk Pearson and Jerry Pournelle
December 23rd, 2009 by drs
The second half of an hour long interview that I actually saw on TV back in ‘79. Durk Pearson got me started, taking antioxidant vitamins way back in the late 70’s, and I think it was this interview that got me interested in buying my first computer in 1980. Very interesting, in that a lot of the things they were talking about then, as in the future, have actually happened. Weird watching Tom Snyder smoke cigarettes on air, too. A definite BLAST for the PAST!
Notes from the video poster:
In honor of Tom Snyder and for the sake of historical interest.
An interesting recording from early 1979 during which Tom Snyder discusses life extension techniques with Durk Pearson and Jerry Pournelle. This information could save your life! Or maybe not.
I was only able to record the second half of the show at the time. The benefits of Choline and Lecithin are discussed, as well as the need for Thymosin to battle immune deficiencies. Durk describes how he fights baldness. The benefits of B12 are described. Life extension is described as a battle against evolution.
Tom is fascinated by Durk’s and Jerry’s prognostications about the(ir) future of publishing, computers and technology in general. Jerry describes his amazing Cromemco Z80-based computerized “glass screen” that allows him to edit his novels with ease, recording them on “magnetic records” before printing the manuscripts on paper using an “automatic typewriter” and mailing them to the publisher. Durk describes the theory behind flat panel TVs. Speculation regarding the connection of wavelength to holographic television ensues which leaves Tom flabbergasted. Jerry predicts the demise of old-fashioned newsprint. Jerry then tells the story of how much computer technology had shrunk since the old days of the Iliac. Somehow the discussion then turns to asteroid mining. Go figure.
The final segment of that night’s show includes Durk’s description of how computers are going to change everyone’s lives, how much better computerized cars are and how everyone will have interactive general purpose computers in just ten years. Durk and Jerry then boldly makes the assertion that within twenty to thirty years mankind will be able to control computers merely by thought, and any question the answer of which is known or calculable will be instantly answered, revolutionizing education. Durk points out that a computer has already passed the Turing Simulation Test as of 1979. Tom worries about computers running our lives, but is reassured by Durk and Jerry otherwise.
Mind you, this was at a time when personal computers were still very much a hobbyist curiosity, and processors like the Intel 8080 and Zilog Z80 were “high tech”.
Tags: 1979, choline, computer, computers, Durk Pearson, futurist, holographic TV, Jerry Pournelle, lecithin, life extension, Technology, thymosin, Tom Snyder, Tomorrow, Turing, word processorPosted in
ObamaCare Would Not Be Improved By Including Alternative Health Care
December 12th, 2009 by drs
Here’s an copy of an email message sent by Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw.
ObamaCare Would Not Be Improved By Including Alternative Health Care
We think that ObamaCare is currently an even greater threat to an unusually long healthy life than the FDA — and we have spent a large fortune of our own money suing the FDA on health freedom issues.We are dismayed that some of those who believe they support freedom of choice in their health decisions would be willing to support ObamaCare — the exact opposite of freedom of choice — if it were altered to include (e.g., to pay for) alternative health care, including dietary supplements and herbal supplements.
What those folks don’t realize is that adding alternative health care to the ObamaCare healthcare takeover would mean that alternative medicine would also be taken over. No more would there be a relatively free market in dietary and herbal supplements, where companies can offer a large diversity of different products, allowing even small groups of consumers to buy what they prefer. No more would there be frequent new life enhancing and life saving products and alternative medical procedures.
The government would decide on a one-size-fits-all basis what can be offered (e.g., what ObamaCare will pay for) and, thus, determine the contents and dosages of those relatively few supplements they would allow you to get under ObamaCare. This may benefit a few very large companies (such as those of Big Pharma) that will be delighted to take taxpayers’ money from the government to supply government stipulated supplements. But to the vast majority of consumers of dietary and herbal supplements, as well as to most (perhaps all) small, medium, and even large sized supplement companies and alternative medical practices, it will spell the end of alternative medicine as we have known it.
Do not be fooled. ObamaCare is going to have a very negative impact on the development and availability of conventional medicines, and the same would be true for alternative medicine, including dietary and herbal supplements if they were to be included in ObamaCare. ObamaCare will make you an offer that you can’t refuse . . .
If Obamacare includes alternative medicine and supplements, any alternative medical practice or product that does not obtain government approval will be deemed felony health care fraud.
Your fellow freedom fighters,
Durk Pearson & Sandy Shaw
Jeff Beck – Live At Ronnies
October 31st, 2009 by drs
Tags: Eric Clapton, Imogen Heap, Jason Rebello, Jeff Beck, Joss Stone, Ronnie Scott's, Tal Wilkenfeld, Vinnie ColaiutaPosted in
The Value Added Tax: A Hidden New Tax to Finance Much Bigger Government
October 15th, 2009 by drs
Great video from www.freedomandprosperity.org
This Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation video explains why a value-added tax would be a dangerous money machine for big government. The evidence from Europe also shows that VATs actually lead to higher income taxes. www.freedomandprosperity.org
Tags: cf&p, competition, fact, freedom prosperity center, Mitchell, myths, obama, oecd, quinlan, tax, taxes, value added tax, vatPosted in
Gold and Silver – Robert Kiyosaki and Mike Maloney
October 5th, 2009 by drs
Why you should be investing at least part of your money in silver.
Zachary Richard – Snake Bite Love
September 12th, 2009 by drs
One of my absolute favorites albums.
I totally agree with this review from Amazon:
I first heard “One Kiss/coda: My French Blues (un Autre Baiser)” on SIRIUS. The next day, I went to iTunes, listened to the 30-second samples of each song, and could not download the whole thing fast enough. This recording is, simply, wonderful — it will, variously, make you want to get up and dance, and cry. A “must-have” for anyone who appreciates virtuosity on display with every cut.
Enjoy. You won’t be able to stay seated!
This review from AMAZON says it all for this album.
“Snakebite Love” graps you, and by “Burning” your on fire. Your feet will not stop moving for “Dancing at Double D’s”, and you will shed a tear for the lost purity of the bayou as you listen to “Sunset on Louisianne.” Smell the “Crawfish” in the gumbo, your feel clothes cling to you in the humidity “Down in Congo Square”, and as the album ends, you will want some one to share “One Kiss”, and if you don’t speak French Creole you will wish you did. This is a powerful album which tells a story about a a corner of the U.S. about which most people know little. I have been listening to this CD for years, and if it is possible to wear one out, this one that I will. This album is a treat, it doesn’t get much better than this.
If you enjoyed any of these cuts, you can purchase and download them from Amazon
Tags: Brian Stolz, Daryl Johnson, Doctor John, Louisiana, Snake Bite Love, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Zachary RichardPosted in
Michael Badnarik’s Constitution Class
September 6th, 2009 by drs
Constitution Class. Very interesting. This is stuff they they don’t teach you in school. Definitely worth your time. Really gives you something to think about.
In the early eighties Michael Badnarik started his career as a computer programmer at an Illinois nuclear power plant. For the past twenty years he has continued this professional course, but during this time he became interested and frustrated with politics. As a result, in 1983 Badnarik began studying the IRS and then the constitution. He had since condensed his 18 years of research into a short eight hour course that he would teach in a lecture format. It included some of the fundamentals on our rights and the foundations of our republic. A video recording of one of the classes has been made and you can watch it here..
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