Goodies from Ol' Remus

Ol' Remus

 

1937. Kitchen cupboard in Northome Minnesota

Oxydol's still around, the brand is one hundred years old this year.

Higher education - At best, academia is seen as providing a refuge for people who can't cope with the real world—a sort of collection of mental institutions and halfway houses for the intellectually differently abled, if you will. The question is, as a society with so many poor people, increasing numbers of them direct products of academia, should we continue to support these academic institutions by entrusting our children to their care?
Dmitry Orlov at cluborlov.com

Using “prosecutorial discretion” as a pretext, he has exempted the vast majority of illegal aliens from the consequences of their actions. He has formally amnestied—without legislative authorization—more than a half-million illegal immigrants who claim to have come here before age 16. He is signaling that sometime this year he will unilaterally, and illegally, amnesty half or more of the roughly 12 million illegal aliens now living in the United States.
Mark Krikorian at washingtontimes.com

On no legal basis, all 4.5 million residents of the five U.S. territories were quietly released from ObamaCare. It seems the costs of healthcare soared in these five territories due to uneconomic mandates... WSJ reports all of a sudden last week HHS discovered new powers after "a careful review of this situation and the relevant statutory language," that enabled them to 'selectively exempt' American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, Northern Mariana Islands, and Virgin Islands from Obamacare.
Wall Street Journal and Tyler Durden at zerohedge.com

Why I Am No Longer a Leftist

How far left was I? So far left I was a two-time Peace Corps volunteer and I have a degree from UC Berkeley. I wore a button saying "Eat the Rich." To me it wasn't a metaphor. Below are the top ten reasons I am no longer a leftist. This is not a rigorous comparison of theories, it's an accounting of the milestones on my herky-jerky journey, says Danusha Goska in this article, Ten Reasons Why I Am No Longer a Leftist, at The American Thinker.
(H/t reader PW)

Comprehensive amnesty

First, they said there was no surge at the border, it was a phony crisis manufactured by the Drudge Report. Next, liberals told us these “undocumented migrants” were mere children fleeing violence and drug cartels. Then we found out that more than 80 percent of the “children” were teenage males. Now, instead of “living in the shadows”— the shadows of mass protests, New York Times magazine covers, TV shows, government housing, free schools, free medical care and free food stamps, “undocumented migrants” seem poised to become full legal residents so they can vote for more welfare and more amnesty, says Ann Coulter in this article, Happy 30th birthday, Central American Humanitarian Crisis, at Human Events.

Flick versus stick

It has been a commonly held belief the ferro rod is superior than a Bic lighter. I, too, was an adamant believer of the ferro rod, but the more I used it, the more I began to question it’s authoritative claims. Using critical thinking and through my experiences, I determined it was NOT the wonder bar it claimed to be and stopped using it all together a few years ago. Grabbing a calculator, a scale, and a large size ferro rod, I did some quick calculations and this is what I came up with, says Alan Halcon in this article, Ferro Rod vs. Bic Lighter, at Dirt Time.

Also see Ross Gilmore's comments in this article, Ferro Rod vs. BIC Lighter, at Wood Trekker. 

Stealth fishing - Shopping carts make stealthy fish traps. People are used to seeing them in the rivers, especially beneath bridges. Another reason they are stealthy is that people associate certain classes of people with shopping carts and the mere act of pushing one renders the pusher invisible.
Eaton Rapids Joe at eatonrapidsjoe.blogspot.com

Georgia Deputy chases suspect, shoots at dog, misses, hits boy - The family who lives on the property said their 10-year-old son was shot in the back of the knee. Sheriff Wooten later confirmed that the boy had been shot by one of the deputies at the scene. The bullet entered from the back of the knee and exited out of the front of the child's leg... a deputy was approaching the property when a dog ran up to him. The deputy's gun fired one shot, missing the dog and hitting the child.
Christian McKinney at walb.com

See also: Cop Tries to Shoot Dog, Plugs Kid Instead. Police Use of Passive Voice Ensues, by J. Tuccille, at Reason

See news article with photos: Deputy who shot 10-year-old identified; more charges on suspects, by Christian McKinney at WTOC in Savannah, Georgia

Working-class victimizers - A blue-collar white kid, who feels lost and friendless on the alien terrain of a university campus, a campus he has to leave immediately after class so he can get to his fulltime job at MacDonald's, must accept that he is a recipient of "white privilege" – if he wants to get good grades in mandatory classes on racism.
Danusha Goska at americanthinker.com