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Duvall and co. sue Rowland

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Post by Brooks Imperial.

Duvall complaint against Rowland

Duvall complaint

Looks like Democrats politicking through the justice system once again.

B_Imperial

Ningbo to Taizhou

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We took a fast train from Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station (pronounced hong-chow) to Taizhou (pronounced tie-joe) last Monday on business, about a 3.5 hour ride with many stops.  I turned the camera on between Ningbo and Taizhou.  The train cruised at about 120 mph and I shot the camera at 1/2000th with an assumed ASA of 3200, pretty high numbers.  Color saturation sucks at those speeds on my camera so I process those images in black and white.

B_Imperial

Taizhou 01 Taizhou 02

Taizhou 03 Taizhou 04 [Read more…]

fundamentalism and state

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Faisal Al-QassemFaisal Al-Qassem
Though Faisal Al-Qassem correctly advises the removal of religion from politics as a key to prosperity in the Mideast, he appears not to appreciate that American majorities substituted the ersatz religion of omnipotent government, which kills off potential just as effectively as any metaphysical fundamentalism.

“no” taxes, debt, or bullies

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In law school you learn that the English language can be used to construct a persuasive case for ANY position whatsoever.  Leaving aside the philosophical question this raises about the existence of objective truth, it at least leads one to a healthy skepticism about political statements.  The fact is, most aren’t worth the paper – or pixels – they’re printed on. [Read more…]

Greens spending the gold

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Big Money And Radical Activists Lurk Behind Fracking Bans Across Front Range

October 16, 2013

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Cliff Willmeng cropped

Cliff Willmeng, seen here on Facebook expressing his views to oil and gas executives, is a key leader in a network of hyper-confrontational activists who guide the anti-fracking movement in Colorado

The debate over the fracking bans in Broomfield, Fort Collins and Lafayette on the November ballot has been a heated one in recent months, with plenty of media coverage of claims by opponents of fracking.

But missing from any media coverage of the ideological crusade against fracking is the checkered history of the most influential voices in the anti-fracking movement, and the underground money machine that sustains it. [Read more…]

Thomas Jefferson

"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."

Aristotle

"Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved."

Karl Popper

“A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is nonscientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.”