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

 
Whoa! Is this October? ~ A Record-Setting Blizzard Killed 75,000 Cows and You Might Not Have Even Heard About It ~ Unless you’re a regular Weather Channel viewer you probably missed this one. I know I hadn’t seen a thing about the huge snowstorm in South Dakota until I ran across this story in the Blaze.
 
Change Your Species, Change Your Race? Why Not? ~

Political correctness now requires that objective reality sit the bench while subjective silliness takes the field. For today’s uber-“tolerant” mom and dad – ahem – “mom and mom” or “dad and dad,” having a child of each “sex” (or acquiring one as biological limitations may dictate) apparently means a “family” that looks more like the bar scene from “Star Wars” than “The Donna Reed Show.”

Hey, in a world where nothing really matters – anything goes.

 
Con artists impersonate Affordable Care Act navigators to steal identities ~ Who’s surprised? Just like Medicaid and the foodstamp program, ObamaCare is rife with opportunities for fraud and abuse, both inside and outside the system.
 
We paid $634 million for the Obamacare sites and all we got was this lousy 404 ~ So far, even the occasional leftie is disgruntled with ObamaCare. But, no worries for Andrew Couts. It’s gonna be great, even though the proof of its massive inefficiency is right in front of his eyes! And because he couldn’t find the “Death Panel” button to click on, he doesn’t think there are any.
Ha! We’re even got high schools training future death panelists ~ School Indoctrinates Students With Death Panel Assignment
 
And the public school mis-education has only begun ~ Transforming America’s Schools into Authoritarian Instruments of Compliance. With tragic results ~

Over the same time period, incidences of childhood mental illness have steadily increased. The number of children and young adults suffering from major depression and generalized anxiety disorder have increased between five and eightfold since the 1950s. The suicide rate for 15– 24-year-olds has doubled, while the suicide rate for those under the age of 15 has quadrupled.

 
A Modern Paul Revere Visits MI ~ And I was there Energizing and inspiring!
 

How Many Native Americans Think ‘Redskins’ is a Slur? ~ In the only recent poll to ask native people about the subject, 90 percent of respondents did not consider the term offensive. But darn it – CBS thinks they should. So they’ll keep hammering and yammering, like the good little propagandists they are, until the sheeple fall in line.

 
The planned destruction of America ~ Don’t want to believe Doug Hagmann at Canada Free Press… but he’s probably right.
 
Sources: Ryan Compromise Will Keep Obamacare ‘Forever’ ~ Posturing as a true fiscal conservative, Paul Ryan rose to national prominence on the Tea Party surge. Now we’ve realized he’s just another elitist hack.