Blog Heap of Links for the day 23 May 2014

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Theory of Education

Riverside Twp, NJ– Two 12-year-olds… allegedly trying to sell prescription sleep pills for $10 a piece to classmates at… Middle School… boys… confessed to consuming them…

6:00pm CDT Fri 2014 May 23 :MW

Pittsburgh… elementary school student… caught smoking marijuana in a school restroom… [4th-graders] were just about to board buses for a field trip…

5:56pm CDT Fri 2014 May 23 :MW
Mortorboard

[Plaintiffs] attest that three Spanish teachers and a guidance counselor at the high school indoctrinated their daughters into a cult that "celebrates death,"

5:52pm CDT Fri 2014 May 23 :MW

Police Riot

FBI Special Agent Aaron McFarlane, 41… FBI agent who fatally shot Ibragim Todashev, 27… key figure last year in the Boston Marathon bombing investigation… former [Oakland CA] police officer is collecting $52,488 a year in medical disability benefits from the city even though he has been working as an FBI agent in Boston.

11:49am CDT Fri 2014 May 23 :MW

Disturbing Family Patterns

Vanessa Cullins, vice president for external medical affairs at Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said she hopes the future of health care under the Affordable Care Act includes more women using “long-acting” forms of birth control, including intrauterine devices that can cause a fertilized embryo to be aborted.

5:48pm CDT Fri 2014 May 23 :MW

Constitutional Threat

Obamanana

At a Democratic fundraiser in Chicago Thursday night, Mr. Obama told a small group of wealthy supporters that there are several hurdles to keeping Democrats in control of the Senate and recapturing the House. One of those problems… "Obviously, the nature of the Senate means that California has the same number of Senate seats as Wyoming. That puts us at a disadvantage…" [That pesky old Constitution again.]

11:58am CDT Fri 2014 May 23 :MW

Impeach Obama

Obama

These subpoenaed documents had been willfully withheld from the Committee and were only turned over after a federal judge ruled against the administration’s efforts to block a Freedom of Information Act request from the organization Judicial Watch. One e-mail in this production showed that White House official Ben Rhodes coordinated talking points for then Ambassador Susan Rice, encouraging an emphasis that the attack was "‘rooted in an Internet video, and not a failure of policy." [Because, in reality, it was rooted in a failure of policy. LINK IS A PDF]

3:32pm CDT Fri 2014 May 23 :MW
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extraterrestrial

UFO

“In the last fifty years, evidence has steadily mounted that the components and conditions we believe necessary for life are common and perhaps ubiquitous in our galaxy,” said Werthimer in his written testimony.

“There may even be primitive extraterrestrial life in our own solar system, perhaps on a moon of Jupiter or Saturn. Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, is thought to have a liquid water ocean beneath its icy surface, perhaps a good environment for life as we know it.”

The pair said that although “no evidence exists for the presence of life outside of the Earth”, the sheer abundance of planets – “roughly one trillion in our Milky Way galaxy; three times more planets than stars” – suggests that the universe is “teeming with primitive life.”

3:35pm CDT Fri 2014 May 23 :MW
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US Executive Branch

NBC Washington’s Angie Goff revealed a “presidential selfie” with George H.W. Bush, who was clearly “ahead of his time,” as Ms. Goff remarked. February 5, 2014

8:09pm CDT Fri 2014 May 23 :MW

Securing Our Borders

Mex Flag

El Paso police are investigating two mysterious billboards that appeared just off I-10, each with a mannequin hanging from a noose… [One] had Plata o Plomo… silver or lead… usually a warning targeting police or government officials in Mexico… work with a cartel and take a bribe or get a bullet… "[W]e have never experienced this in El Paso,” said police in a statement released to media. “Maybe the problems in Juarez are coming over here,” said Javier Padilla, an El Paso resident. [Oh, gee, y'think? Naw, not with our strong national border President.]

12:05pm CDT Fri 2014 May 23 :MW

Freedom

The Regressives' Dream [image at link]

8:13pm CDT Fri 2014 May 23 :MW