Inside Hitler's Bunker: Rare Images

Inside Hitler's Bunker: Rare Images

Military testing laser weapons

"Advances in the technology have made it possible for military testers to shoot down incoming mortar rounds with land-based lasers, and military commanders are on the verge of being able to fire laser blasts from the air that could be aimed at tanks or mines."  Or, of course, at volcanoes.

FinReg bill: Violating privacy one bank account at a time

The bill goes on to mandate that customer addresses be geocoded for the collection of data on the census tracts of the residences or business locations of customers. The government is mandating that every cent any individual deposits will be linked to the census-based personal address of each customer and to their deposit at the corresponding financial institution. The bureau is permitted to share this data with whomever they wish.

Trading firms put their money on poker experts

A new breed of Wall Street recruit gets ahead not through connections or business experience, but through demonstrating a head for numbers, quick thinking and risk-taking – skills from the card table.

Rahm: We “screwed up the messaging” on Israel

More than just the messaging, pal.

USSR planned nuclear attack on China in 1969

Hard to tell if there's anything to this:  Report: Nixon blocked Soviet nuclear attack on China in 1969.

Greece Syndrome Defined - the fiscal equivalent of Stockholm Syndrome

Definition and discussion:

"A term used to describe a paradoxical psychological phenomenon wherein government officials express adulation and have positive feelings toward unsustainable union contracts that appear irrational in light of the danger or risk posed by such contracts to the government."

$400K in stimulus money to study smoking pot and drinking malt liquor

Stephen Hayes at Weekly Standard.

Comparing Private Sector and Government Worker Salaries

Well researched article at Reason.org.

L.A. Mayor: Illegal Immigration Adds to ‘Economic Might’ of Deficit-Ridden CA

At Breitbart.

Scott Ott and Thoreau

What Do You Value More Than Liberty?

 "Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men, generally, under such a government as this, think that they ought to wait until they have persuaded the majority to alter them. They think that if they should resist, the remedy would be worse than the evil. But is is the fault of the government itself that the remedy is worse than the evil. It makes it worse."

Obama's Union Favors: The latest rule change slams the airlines

"On Monday, the National Mediation Board changed a 75-year-old labor rule to make it easier for workers at U.S. airlines and railroad companies to unionize... The new rule will let workers form a union with a simple majority of those voting."

NPR: Economic Woes Threaten Chavez's Socialist Vision

Private enterprise has been so hammered, the World Bank says, that Venezuela is forced to import almost everything it needs.

Will People Bid Online for a Nose Job Just Like an Airline Ticket?

PriceDoc Thinks So.

Huge College Degree Gap for Class of 2010

For last year's graduating Class of 2009, women dominated at every level of higher education. Here's the national breakdown: for every 100 men, 142 women graduated with a bachelor's, 159 women completed a master's and 107 women got a doctoral degree.

Chart at link.

Pot Activists Enlisting Mothers for Legalization Sales Pitch

An idea whose time had more than come.  Here's the website.

Public-sector employees are the new fat cats

Fred Barnes.

Has Obama Brought Chicago-Style Pay to Play to D.C.?

A history of Chicago practices and some examples of how those practices are playing out in D.C.

via NewsAlert.

Must read - the decline of constitutional government.

Joseph Postell of Heritage has an oped in the Washington Times on the rise of the administrative state and the decline of constitutional government.

"...the health care bill, like most major laws passed by Congress over the past hundred years, isn't really a law. Rather, Obamacare is a series of assignments to bureaucrats in the Department of Health and Human Services. It is emblematic of what scholars call the administrative state, where legislative, executive and judicial powers are delegated to unaccountable experts sequestered in a fourth branch of government."

Excellent name for new species

City of Gonads.

Dr. Zero on Superheroes

Men of Iron and Steel.

Thursday stuff

North Korean jokes.

 

Miami airport screener accused of attack after jeers at genitals.

 

7 Scientific Innovations Held Back by Petty Feuds.  Related, sort of: 6 People You've Never Heard of Who Probably Saved Your Life. (These may be NSFW for language)

 

Helmet cam view of Dutch raid on pirate ship.

 

McDonalds Menu Items From Around The World.

 

Stadium Demolition: View from inside.

 

Unintentionally Offensive Business & Product Names.

 

Were Russian secrets shared with ‘space alien’ visitors?

 

Teen suspected of drinking drives away with cop inside car.  One of those thing most people learn not to do when they get older.  But then there's this guy: DUI Suspect Downs Drink During Traffic Stop.  Also, Jim Beam Found Drunk In Public.

 

Baby has argument with himself in mirror.

 

Coney Island: City of Fire.

What really killed Elvis

Chronic Constipation?

Remember the Mohammed censorship at Comedy Central?

Comedy Central developing Jesus Christ cartoon, in case you think it was about "respecting beliefs".

Students punished for wearing American flags on Cinco de Mayo

Five students at a South Bay high school stirred up some controversy Wednesday for wearing t-shirts depicting red, white and blue American flags on Cinco de Mayo.

School officials at Live Oak High in Morgan Hill told the students they had to go home if they wouldn’t turn the shirts inside out.

via HotAir.

Boy with cancer turns into a superhero for a day

With a cast of hundreds.  Video.

Obama admin ignored NOAA warnings about damaged oil rigs

At HuffPo.

Pelosi: Bush didn't warn about financial crisis.

Gateway Pundit has a canonical list of 17 warnings during his administration.

Corporate taxes are paid by individual taxpayers

Doc Zero takes on some invisible truths.

NYT editorial: Obama should have acted sooner on the oil spill

Via HotAir.

Bush would have been torn to shreds for reacting the same way and everyone, from the Times on down, knows it.