Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:

 
Girl, 16, says teacher at Port Richmond school ridiculed her Romney T-shirt ~ A geometry teacher at Charles Carroll High School in Port Richmond,PA on Friday told the student to leave class, “Your wearing a Romney shirt is like me wearing a KKK shirt.” 😯
This woman obviously has her political parties mixed up. The Left has been so successful at mis-educating people that teacher needs a history lesson: The Democratic Party’s long history of racism. And she apparently missed the Republican convention.
 
Save our ships – Prez vs. key US industry ~ Hmmm… who’s really sending jobs overseas? Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY; Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn) explains how the Obama administration is hurting the US maritime industry by repeatedly waiving the Jones Act.
 
Gov’t Urges Parents to Use School Lunches As a Model for Family Dinner ~ “You will eat what we tell you to eat – or else…” ➡ School May Install Trash Cams to Spy on Kids Tossing Veggies.
 
NY Times deplores loss of leftist dominance of Israeli media ~ While the less confused and more rational among us applaud it.

 
“Independence Day:” Obama Boogaloo ~ Misfit Politics imagines the film’s different trajectory with Obama as president;
“We stand with our undocumented extraterrestrial brethren in their heroic and completely spontaneous efforts to see for themselves how awesome I truly am.”
 
California Governor extends $100 million Hollywood tax credit ~ now it’ll be cheaper for them to make movies about the evils of corporate welfare. Governor Moonbeam plays the LaLa Land version of Chicago-style politics:

It’s disturbingly funny when a politician makes a proposal and then signs off on a second proposal designed to ward off an unintended consequence that proves why the first proposal is a really bad idea. To top it off, an industry that benefits from large tax credits then takes some of their tax credit windfall and donates it back to the cause of forcing the rich to pay higher taxes. Circle of life, Hollywood style.