Pointman’s Page

Trebuchets are really cool machines. Too bad I don’t have anywhere to “plink” with one of any size. Maybe I’ll get a desktop model to launch things at people daring to enter my office. But the one that really got my attention is the floating arm trebuchet aka FAT.

It is amusing that the fact that Nearly Two-thirds of U.S. Adults Believe Human Beings Were Created by God is being used by those calling themselves “progressive” as proof that natural selection favors the stupid rather than the strong.
I have to admit I’m beginning to agree with them but only because the […]

John Hawkins has posted Debunking 8 Anti-War Myths About The Conflict In Iraq which is a must read.

And people wonder why some of us simply don’t trust “science” anymore. Like most other things in our daily lives “science” has been corrupted by the politics of those holding the purse strings, whether academic, government or corporate.

I wondered how long it would take before someone made a 9/11 movie. It was my guess that it would take a few years specifically so that the “incident” would fade a bit from peoples memories, giving the producer/director more latitude with their propaganda. I think 4 years is proving to be more […]

Found an excellent list of Wyoming webcams. If you remember the movie Shane the Blacktail Butte cam is, I’ve been told, where the ranch was located. Other listed cams include 3 for Jackson Hole, Mammoth hot springs and even Old Faithful. Without counting there is probably 40 cams listed. Beautiful scenery.

“Here’s my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.”
“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
“The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant: It’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.”
“Of the four wars in my lifetime […]

“The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.” — John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)

“A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.” - G. Gordon Liddy

“The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed — where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies […]

“More formidable is an army of deer, led by a lion, than an army of lions, led by a deer.” –Rev. Bob Thieme

‘’Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.” –Sarah Brady, Chair Handgun Control, Inc.

“You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” –Winston Churchill

“If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government’s ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.” -President Bill Clinton, August 12, 1993

“False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; what would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils, except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such […]

“I didn’t write that I was an absolute pacifist but that I have always been a convinced pacifist. That means there are circumstances in which in my opinion it is necessary to use force. Such a case would be when I face an opponent whose unconditional aim is to destroy me and my people.” […]

The roll call on the CAFTA vote is rather interesting. Unlike NAFTA I’m one that supports CAFTA mainly because the provisions that allow the small central American nations to import tarrif free are already in place. What CAFTA provides is access to those, granted small, markets which currently charge tarrifs on our goods coming in. […]

The type of stuff available on the Internet is amazing. It appears to be Gun Tests for silencers.

How did we go from protecting children from predators to protecting them from lectures? The defendant’s attorney nailed my concern:
Frederick Cohn, Barnaby’s attorney, told the Chicago Sun-Times. “If you see a 15-year-old beating up your 8-year-old and you grab that kid’s hand and are found guilty of unlawful restraint, do you now have to […]