April 29th, 2010:



April 27th, 2010:

While we work on some more new content, we thought you might enjoy this demonstration of fun things you can do with timing circuits...  LED lights turn on and off so fast that you make some pretty nifty patterns. 

April 23rd, 2010:

The following is a prank which we are pulling on liberals:

January 20th, 2009:

GAHAHAHAAhaha....  Ted Kennedy's seat belongs to the people once again.   Welcome back to the Union Massachusetts!  As most of you know, last night Scott Brown rolled his truck right over Coakley's campaign.  The conservative side sleeps well and prepares for the next conflict.  The liberals, for now, are openly distraught about the election results.

I don't know about the rest of you, but personally I never watch MSNBC or CNN - except on nights when the left gets creamed big.  Last night the antics were hilarious.  Right now the spin is that Coakley didn't do enough and treated her primary as a coronation.  There is also the absurd claim going about that voters were mad that Obama was trying too hard to be a moderate and not getting enough done.  People voted against "Marsha Croakley" last night because they really were voting for the change that they expected Obama to deliver.  They want to see the change. 

HAHAHAHAHA.... Yeah right.   The problem is that we have seen the change Obama promises.  This Day by Day comic sums it all... (Check out more in our humor section)

I fully expect the left to push ahead on health care, but I have confidence now more than ever that there will be a backlash.  We must not be complacent.  We must keep up the heat.  Today we have a good video about some of the stuff coming out in H.R. 3200.  Review it and remember that last night was but one battle in the ongoing war to crush the Obama menace.

January 19th, 2009:

Voters are voting in Massachusetts! Polls in the Commonwealth are open from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m. and conventional wisdom has gelled that state Sen. Scott Brown (R) enters election day as the slight favorite to pull an upset.

9 percent of voters say they’d already cast a ballot through absentee voting. Brown leads Coakley among this group 58-42.

9:42 EST - VICTORY FOR BROWN....  THE CONSERVATIVES HAVE WON THE DAY. 

January 17th, 2009:

January 15th, 2009:

January 14th, 2009:

As an honors graduate of Biochemistry, I am reasonably familiar with biology.  Hence, one might say that I have a reasonable understanding of evolution.  In my humble opinion, the theory behind evolution comes out of reasonable logic and there is much evidence in support of it.  With that said, it drives me crazy to see how something like evolution is tramped around as the science that disproves God or something. Dictator states have shaped eugenics policies around it,  dubious "creation" museums try to tell you that you will go to hell if you accept it.  There is quite a bit of controversy behind an overly simplistic theory.

First let me come clean and tell you what I believe. I believe that there is a God.  I also think evolution is a useful theory that offers another way to interpret of God's universe.  Now with that in mind, allow me to share with you a brief overview of a universe seen with biochemistry.

In order for life as we know it to exist, a number of enzymatic processes must work in tandem and be regulated.  Enzymes are extremely large by chemistry standards - they are structures that are composed of individual molecules known as amino acids.

These amino acids come together with each other to form unique chains (what scientists call peptide chains.) These chains fold and arrange themselves in ways that allow an enzyme to function.  Consider actin, a relatively simple enzyme needed for muscle movement.

Each little turn in each of those helices consists of several amino acids. (Usually about three per turn.)  So imagine how many amino acids must be in a structure like this.  Hundreds... Thousands?  Guess what.  This is just one "subunit" of a larger actin molecule.

These actin molecules come together to form even larger structures.  In order for a muscle to contract however, one needs more than actin.  One needs other structures like myosin and tropomyosin.

These structures need to arrange themselves even further in ways that allow productive contraction. You may already be familiar with the term sacromere. 

Now you kind of have a little idea of what the engine of a muscle fiber looks like, but you really don't know how it is turned on or controlled...  That looks even more crazy.

Each of those bubbles represents some kind of peptide, enzyme or other structure that takes part in the massive machine that is man.  All of this before one even gets to questions like how the nervous system controls your muscles.   

The details that could be added to this picture seem overwhelming.   I could spend the rest of my life elaborating to great lengths about the various processes we have elucidated thus far about life and even that would be a drop in the bucket.

In physical chemistry there is a form of statistics that concerns itself with the probability of molecular events occurring. The amount of order inherent to the systems above is just so staggering that it defies simple random selection.  Darwinian evolution does not apply well to simple molecular selection.  Even if there is a system of survival of the "fittest proteins," it is difficult to see how all of this just fell together to form a working organism.  You can shake a bag of bolts and rubber for a zillion years and not get a car.  Life is a million times more complex than a car.

In my humble opinion, the origin of life must have relied on some very unique circumstances.

 That such order arouse in a universe of entropy is a miracle.  The number of factors necessary for chemistry like this to occur is similarly staggering. Did you know that Crick (You know of Watson and Crick) believed that DNA was so complex, that in his book, Life Itself, Crick proposed that the basic genetic structure of bacterial DNA was seeded from outer space.  In a sense, some might say that Crick believed in aliens as the origin of life.  (That doesn't really anwser the question though does it?)

Is it crazy to believe that there might be something higher than us in the universe? Is it crazy to think that maybe the universe has a fundamental order that goes beyond our understanding?

I am not going to argue for intelligent design. I am not going to try to persuade you that life is not just a coincidence. I just wanted to share with you a vision of what I saw studying biochemistry.  The next time you hear somebody spout off a random talking point about evolution, just stop and think about how amazing life is.

January 8th, 2009:

We here at Fortscribe are tired of hearing Obama blame Bush, the "system" and honorable intelligence agents for failures to stop terrorism.   Obama is the commander in chief now.  His job is not to redistribute our wealth or force grandma to take the pain pill.  His job is to keep us safe and vote on the bills that pass through congress.  After 9-11 the intelligence community under Bush kept us safe.    Will we be able to say the same under the Obama administration?

Rather than trying to cover up the numerous concerns we have over "healthcare reform;"  rather than lie about the blatant corruption of the stimulus bill, the media should be looking into why we can blame the Obama administration for failures in the intelligence community.

This is not a difficult angle to investigate.  We here at Fortscribe have spoken with many people with interesting insight into the intelligence sector.  We know that Bush went to great lengths to give intelligence agencies the tools and permission they would need to directly act on their own.   As any commander can tell you, often successful intelligence operations required our intelligence experts to take the initiative.  In a field where situations can change rapidly, streamlined procedures with clear chains of command allow for rapid response.  Even the lowest grunt must be capable of exercising a certain degree of sound judgment;  when they learn something they must take the initiative and take the steps that prevent terrorism.  Each added link in the chain of command adds slows down response time.

    As should be evident to all, Obama's administration is power hungry.   In their elitism they think that they are the only ones gifted enough to act appropriately.   Think back to how President Johnson used to individually plan airstrikes in Vietnam rather than leave this to his generals? Think about how Obama handled the Somali pirate situation.  Liberals like to centralize power to themselves.  They ensure that they place themselves in many extra links to the chain of command.

While the "diffusion of responsibility" associated with an unyielding liberal bureaucracy is terrible enough, sometimes we here at Fortscribe fear that Obama's goons want to weaken our country intentionally.   For indeed,  Obama's goons blame America for many of the world's woes.  They even persecute those who take the initiative to stop terrorism themselves. 

Notice that under Obama, there have been many who have looked to punish those who have kept our country safe.  Honorable servicemen have been accused of torture and barbarism.  Foreign terrorists are offered rights that traditionally reserved for American citizens.  Some radicals even work to find ways to prosecute the Bush administration for "war crimes."  What a joke.

What message do you think the Obama cult is sending to our intelligence experts?   Nobody wants to go out on a limb and be a victim for the Obama administration.   Even when actionable intelligence is available to many in the early steps of the chain of command; those who should have the authority to act are scared of persecution or must put up with the incompetent Obama administration.

As we all know, our Healthcare system sucks. We are behind Cuba and other Caribbean paradises like Haiti.  In this time of tragedy, I think it best not to make light of serious situations.   People are dying!  We need to send people to Haiti now to get socialized Healthcare. 

This will bring a smile to your face : )