Devil Baby Attack

ICYMI:

You’re an unsuspecting New Yorker, minding your own business when you happen upon an unattended stroller, the wailing cries of a child in need keening from within. Being a responsible, caring individual, you check it out to make sure nothing’s the matter.

Wrong move.

That’s a Devil Baby and it’s about to ATTACK!

This Devil Baby sits bolt upright, screaming and staring into your soul. In its demonic carriage, the Devil Baby travels crowded NYC sidewalks, popping up and puking and showing zero respect for the authority of law enforcement, if that tiny, not-so-adorable middle finger at the 1:36 mark is indicative. This Devil Baby is on a terrifying mission to make sure the City that Never Sleeps couldn’t manage too even if it tried.

This Devil Baby is… animatronic and remote-controlled and frickin’ amazing!

Published Tuesday, the video “Devil Baby Attack” comes to the Web from the YouTube account DevilsDueNYC. Looks like another viral marketing campaign for a horror movie, as horror film Devil’s Due comes out this Friday.

Urine-drinking Hindu cult believes a warm cup before sunrise straight from virgin cow cures cancer, baldness

'Only two things are pure in this universe, in this world. One is the water from the Holy Ganges river and the other is urine from mother holy cow,' Ramesh Gupta, a Hindu priest, said. 

Followers of the cult claim cow urine can successfully be used to combat cancer, diabetes, tumours, tuberculosis, stomach problems and much more. They also claim that drinking cow pee is the only effective solution for treating baldness.

'Cow urine has been mentioned in ancient Hindu scriptures. No one can doubt the good effects it has on the human body. It is a divine gift from God.' 

Followers like Gupta, however, insist that urine from every cow cannot be beneficial.

'The cow, whose urine one has to drink, should be a virgin - she must not have delivered a calf. Also, the urine is to be collected just before sunrise - that urine has the best effect,' he said.

However, there are people who oppose the claims made by preachers.

'People keep saying all kinds of things about cow urine, but we don't mind. People don't know what this is. They have never experienced the taste of cow urine or its effects, so how can they judge it,' Singhal said.

'It is just a matter of time before people realise the utility of cow urine.' 

He is now eyeing to cash in on the growing trend and has plans to start manufacturing cow urine products on a commercial scale.

'We can manufacture eye drops, medicines for stomach ailments, toothpaste, bathing soaps, herbal powdered medicine, among other things, from cow urine,' he said.

More at Daily Mail.

Iranian news agency: Snowden docs show that the U.S. is secretly run by Nazi space aliens

Not The Onion, or a SciFi movie (there is a sort of sub-genre of these that adds Nazis into traditional horror themes, e.g. the zombie Nazi films Dead Snow and Outpost: Black Sun).

Screenshot of Fars News' English edition

On Sunday, the hard-line semi-official Fars News dropped one of its biggest bombshells yet: The United States government has been secretly run by a "shadow government" of space aliens since 1945. Yes, space aliens. The alien government is based out of Nevada and had previously run Nazi Germany. It adds, for timeliness, that the controversial NSA programs are actually a tool for the aliens to hide their presence on Earth and their secret agenda for global domination. This is all asserted as incontrovertible fact with no caveats.

As proof that aliens were secretly behind the Nazis, the report explains that Germany built hundreds of submarines toward the end of the war, far more than would have been possible with mere human technology. It does not explain why aliens with access to interstellar travel built subs that were so grossly incapable against the British navy, or why all-powerful extraterrestrials were unable to help the Nazis resist an invasion by Allied forces that are mere cavemen relative to their own technology. So far, these are pretty unimpressive aliens.

In any case, after losing the war, the aliens apparently installed themselves as the secret force behind the United States government. President Obama is said to be a tool of the aliens, though anti-alien factions within the U.S. government are fighting to topple him. Their present aim is to install a global surveillance system that will, somehow, allow them to finally impose a one-world government and enslave humanity.

More at WaPo.

New Game of Thrones Season 4 Trailer!

Next season of GOT starts April 6.

The self-destruction of the humanities

Read the whole thing by Heather Mac Donald in the WSJ (this is from Jan 3, but I missed it),  Excerpts (emphasis mine):

Until 2011, students majoring in English at UCLA had to take one course in Chaucer, two in Shakespeare, and one in Milton — the cornerstones of English literature. Following a revolt of the junior faculty, however, during which it was announced that Shakespeare was part of the “Empire,” UCLA junked these individual author requirements. It replaced them with a mandate that all English majors take a total of three courses in the following four areas: Gender, Race, Ethnicity, Disability and Sexuality Studies; Imperial, Transnational, and Postcolonial Studies; genre studies, interdisciplinary studies, and critical theory; or creative writing. In other words, the UCLA faculty was now officially indifferent to whether an English major had ever read a word of Chaucer, Milton or Shakespeare, but the department was determined to expose students, according to the course catalogue, to “alternative rubrics of gender, sexuality, race, and class.”

The UCLA coup represents the characteristic academic traits of our time: narcissism, an obsession with victimhood, and a relentless determination to reduce the stunning complexity of the past to the shallow categories of identity and class politics. Sitting atop an entire civilisation of aesthetic wonders, the contemporary academic wants only to study oppression, preferably his or her own, defined reductively according to gonads and melanin.[…] [Consider] the resentment of a Columbia University undergraduate, who had been required by the school’s core curriculum to study Mozart. She happens to be black, but her views are widely shared, to borrow a phrase, “across gender, sexuality, race and class.” “Why did I have to listen in music humanities to this Mozart?” she groused… “My problem with the core is that it upholds the premises of white supremacy and racism. It’s a racist core. Who is this Mozart, this Haydn, these superior white men? There are no women, no people of colour.” These are not the idiosyncratic thoughts of one disgruntled student; they represent the dominant ideology in the humanities today.

Yes, what could the music of Mozart possibly have to offer a black woman, any black woman? After all, he was a composer of pallor, and male, and therefore, apparently, in the service of evil.