Blog Heap of Links for the day 14 May 2012

Completely unrelated: From The Politicker: This campaign will be a state-by-state effort and will be powered by some of the president’s union allies in National Education Association... From Politics K-12: The president’s spending blueprint also includes... $30 billion to help prevent teacher layoffs.

...Wright said. “He sent the offer to one of the members of the church, who sent it to me.... One hundred and fifty thousand dollars.... Barack said he wanted to meet me in secret, in a secure place.... And one of the first things Barack said was, ‘I really wish you wouldn’t do any more public speaking until after the November election....'"

The American-made Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) can be used to send verbal warnings over a long distance or emit a beam of pain-inducing tones. The equipment was spotted fixed to a landing craft on the Thames at Westminster this week. ... broadcasts focused, highly intelligible, multi-language messages, instructions and warnings over distances up to 3,000 metres to peacefully resolve uncertain situations".... capable of producing deafening sound levels of 150 decibels at one metre....

Donald "Duck" Dunn's astonishing discography.

The Joshua ben Joseph Project is dedicated to the illumination of the religious life of Jesus and how he lived it. The project involves capturing high definition video and still photographs of regions in which Jesus lived and worked and using them to dramatize and illuminate the magnificent story in Part 4 of The Urantia Book.