My videos from Iceland

Video Road Hogs Stir Fear of Internet Traffic Jam - New York Times: "For months there has been a rising chorus of alarm about the surging growth in the amount of data flying across the Internet. The threat, according to some industry groups, analysts and researchers, stems mainly from the increasing visual richness of online communications and entertainment — video clips and movies, social networks and multiplayer games."

Why be part of the solution when you can be part of the problem?
Here are some of my videos from Iceland. Hopefully I will get more up this week.

Man Loses 600 Pounds With Diet, Exercise - Health News Story - KETV Omaha

Man Loses 600 Pounds With Diet, Exercise - Health News Story - KETV Omaha: "Lapitz suggests finding something you can stick with and making it a lifestyle."

This shouldn't be news. But it is.

Justice Taney on Lincoln’s Suspension of Habeas Corpus by Laurence M. Vance

Justice Taney on Lincoln’s Suspension of Habeas Corpus by Laurence M. Vance: "The petitioner resides in Maryland, in Baltimore county; while peaceably in his own house, with his family, it was at two o'clock on the morning of the 25th of May 1861, entered by an armed force, professing to act under military orders; he was then compelled to rise from his bed, taken into custody, and conveyed to Fort McHenry, where he is imprisoned by the commanding officer, without warrant from any lawful authority."

Some history for today. It has become popular around town to attack Chief Justice Taney. I think that anyone who looks objectively at the man and his record will want to defend him.

The creepier side of the state's capital -- baltimoresun.com

The creepier side of the state's capital -- baltimoresun.com: "Okonowicz writes, 'some believe Annapolis, one of America's oldest towns, also to be one of the country's most haunted locations.'"

I'm a bit of skeptic, but I'll keep an open mind.
If I see anything in Annapolis that strikes me as supernatural I will report it here.

Taney's tainted legacy - baltimoresun.com

Taney's tainted legacy - baltimoresun.com

I resent these people who don't know anything about Justice Taney wanting to remove tributes to him. The man was more than one case. The case was wrongly decided and his opinion was offensive, but not for the all of the same reasons that these people think it was. Robert Bork draws a good comparison between Scott, Lochner, and Roe creating Constitutionals rights (slavery, contract, and abortion) out of the Constitution that was silent on the issues.

On the personal level, Taney freed his own slaves and provided them with pensions. He condemned the institution of slavery calling it 'a blot on our national character.' These are not the actions or words of a pro-slavery man.