Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Wednesday Morning Link Dump...

Time is short today, so this is all you get...

Teacher tells students about their Constitutional rights under the Fifth Amendment, gets in hot water with his school district.

Google is building a gigantic blimp-based network to connect billions of people to the Internet.

Global cooling has arrived.  Warmists horrified.

Was Obama high on cocaine on September 11 as our ambassador in Benghazi was killed?  Probably not, but just the fact that someone is wondering is depressing...

Union president earns $156,000 a year for...eating and sleeping two hours a day.

Examples illustrating why you should think before you talk.  My favorite:
This had most of the province of B.C. laughing for 2 days and a very embarrassed female news anchor who will, in the future, likely think before she speaks. What happens when you predict snow but don’t get any! We had a female news anchor that, the day after it was supposed to have snowed and didn’t, turned to the weatherman and asked: ‘So Bobby, where’s that 8 inches you promised me last night?’

Not only did HE have to leave the set, but half the crew did too they were laughing so hard!
Video taken from inside a tornado:


California is poised to say “no” to billions of dollars in taxes, and millions of jobs.  Seriously.  The drums of doom beat ever closer...

Fifteen famous living trees.  I've seen several of these.  I was disappointed that none of the magnificent trees of Estonia were included...

Don't miss this beautiful photo of NGC 6960 (the Witch's Broom nebula).  From APOD, of course...

Is coding (i.e., programming) the new “second language”?  I'd bet “yes” on that one...