An animated clip uploaded to YouTube explaining the essence of the recent 8-day conflict with Hamas militants has become an Internet hit. The cartoon portrays Hamas as a school bully and explains Israel’s right to self-defense, while also taking a swipe at the international community — in this instance portrayed as the school’s teachers — for consistently buying into the Hamas victim narrative.
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Chris Cassone delivers a tribute to the slain heroes of the Benghazi attack on our embassy — Tyrone Woods, Glen Doherty, Sean Smith and Ambassador Chris Stevens. Cassone’s new song also is a rebuke of the treason that let them die. All proceeds (except the Bandcamp 15%) will go to the SEAL NSW Family Foundation. H/T The Other McCain
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You, too, can donate your radiator and spread some warmth! H/T IMAO
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RKO raised a ruckus when it released The French Line in 1953 without a Production Code seal of approval. The reason the studio skirted the censors: Jane Russell’s scandalous dance at the end of the picture, originally presented in 3-D, no less, and given the teaser “It’ll knock both your eyes out!” This was Russell’s followup to Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, in which she co-starred with Marilyn Monroe.
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The Northside school district in San Antonio, Texas, has won November’s Nanny of the Month Award for its decision requiring students to wear electronic tracking devices. The students actually wear radio frequency identification chips (RFID chips, for short) that can be monitored from dozens of electronic readers installed in schools’ ceiling panels to keep tabs on the kiddos during the schoolday.
With school-based tracking going back to at least 2004, the Lone Star State has been something of an RFID trailblazer. In fact, Northside is considering expanding the program to cover all of the district’s 97,000 students.
Reason.TV named two runners-up for the Nanny of the Month Award:
* The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, where administrators may ban booze in dorms — even for students of legal drinking age.
* The city of Chicago, where officials are using GPS devices to track food trucks to make sure they don’t wander within 200 feet of any fixed businesses that sell food, including convenience stores. Violators could face fines of $2,000.
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When he wrote his latest novel If We Survive, Andrew Klavan didn’t imagine he was creating an allegory describing the 2012 election. But the election has certainly cast this adventure tale in a new light. If We Survive tells of a group of young Americans taken out of their comfort zone, and stripped of their freedoms, when they are trapped in a Central American nation undergoing a Communist revolution. Left to their own devices and wits, can they find their way home? Klavan talks about the book with PJTV’s Alexis Garcia.
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The concepts of work and power help us unlock and understand many of the physical laws that govern our universe. In this animated lesson, Wisconsin high school physics teacher Peter Bohacek explores the interplay of each concept when applied to two common objects—a lightbulb and a grandfather clock. H/T TEDed
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This just in…As the fiscal cliff approaches, President Obama is asking Republicans to revoke the pledge they took to never raise taxes. “Just as he revoked the pledge he took to uphold the Constitution,” says Jodi Miller. She also touches on the bone-tingling topic of skeleton sex in Sweden, China’s tallest building and MSNBC’s idea of fair and balanced overage in this edition of NewsBusted.
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The world’s largest oceanarium has opened at a resort in Singapore. The 20-acre Marine Life Park on Singapore’s Sentosa Island houses more than 100,000 animals representing over 800 different species. The centerpiece is an Open Ocean habitat that can be observed through the world’s largest viewing panel — 118 feet wide and 27 feet tall.
Organizers cite the park’s educational and research programs, while detractors are criticizing a planned exhibit of bottlenose dolphins.
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Welcome to Chapter Six from Manhunt of Mystery Island, our current Saturday matinee serial. In this chapter, our hero Lance Rearson searches the mysterious tunnels underneath an old winery, while trying to elude pursuit from the minions of Captain Mephisto. Enjoy and return next Saturday for Chapter Seven: The Death Drop.
