Blog Heap of Links for the day 27 April 2012

...in a span of 1½ months, all three men “conveniently” died... Now, Young’s elderly mother is speaking out about her suspicions that her son was murdered to protect Obama’s reputation and assure his political future as President. ... The Globe reported in May 2008 that a top Chicago private detective said he believed Young was “rubbed out” because of his relationship with Obama. Sinclair has echoed the private eye’s beliefs about Young and Obama. The Globe reports that before his death, Young was planning to flee to Africa to teach. The information was provided to The Globe by Young’s mother, who also now fears for her life and plans to leave her Peoria, Illinois home for a secret location. Mrs. Young said the Chicago police have warned her that her life is in danger. [story from Nov 12, 2011]

The dangers of academic deification are numerous. Those who dominate the educational language of the times determine the moral compass (or lack of compass) of the curriculum. They control who is accepted and who is rejected, not by measure of intelligence or skill, but by their willingness to conform to the establishment ideal. They construct a kind of automaton class, which has been taught not to learn independently, but to parrot propaganda without question. Simultaneously, those of us who do not “make the grade” are relegated to the role of obliged worshippers; accepting the claims of the professional class as gospel regardless of how incorrect they happen to be. To put it simply; the whole thing is disgustingly inbred.

Your credit card's been stolen- and the punk that did it has been running hog-wild ever since [graphics]

A cop friend ( an excellent target shooter) once shot it out with a suspect across the width of a double bed. Both emptied their magazines. Neither scored a single hit. But, a four-year-old who picks up a gun and shoots it at someone will drill that person between the eyes. Every. Single. Time.

...50-year-old [man] was opening a bag of coffee with a knife... wife asked him a question... turned to her... a cat ran under his feet and he fell with the knife in his hand... steak knife went about an inch into [his] chest... treated at a hospital and police say he will be fine. [Cat thinks: FAIL!]

"I think the F ring is Saturn's weirdest ring, and these latest Cassini results go to show how the F ring is even more dynamic than we ever thought," Carl Murray, a Cassini imaging team member based at London's Queen Mary University, said in a statement. "These findings show us that the F ring region is like a bustling zoo of objects from a half mile in size to moons like Prometheus a hundred miles in size, creating a spectacular show." The F ring is held in check by two tiny moons, Prometheus and Pandora, which weave inside and outside the outer ring. Sometimes these moons perturb the ring, creating channels and snowballs. Now scientists think that some of these snowballs survive to become the weird objects punching new holes in the ring. [Video here, after commercial]

I grew up playing in hardcore punk bands and fighting skinheads, and the political mantra for that scene was “Anarchy and Peace.” It seems incredibly naïve in retrospect, but being into punk rock was actually great training for becoming a rational, libertarian, paleoconservative adult. Here are 10 reasons why:

1. IF YOU’RE NOT AN ANARCHIST WHEN YOU’RE YOUNG, YOU HAVE NO HEART; IF YOU’RE NOT A LIBERTARIAN WHEN YOU’RE OLD, YOU HAVE NO BRAIN

Here's my theoretical fun campaign youtube commercial

Romney says, "I am different...

I have no idea if dog tastes like chicken....

When I hear BLT I think sandwich not Black Liberation Theology....

When I hear CRT I think old giant tube screens not Critical Race Theory....

In other words, I am not an incurious thin skinned little bitch who never had a real job and "grew up" in the circle jerk bubble of radical academia....

While I am not exactly like you, we are twins compared to Professor Arugula prissy pants."