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

 
A Sign of the Times? Lifeguard Rescues Man, Gets Fired ~ Hey – that guy’s going down for the third time… but don’t you dare leave your designated area to save him!
 
After Posting $70 Million Loss, French Company Lands $25 Million from DOE ~ “The Department of Energy recently awarded $25 million to a French company (Soitec Solar) that posted net losses of about $70 million last year, and whose solar division is particularly troubled financially.” That’s right – just keep shredding more hard-earned taxpayer dollars.

Optimistically, as one of the commenters on this article at the Foundry so eloquently put it:
“Hope all this comes back to bite Obama in the ass bigtime in November!”
 
Black mobs now beating Jews in New York ~ Shhhhh…. Don’t mention this story to anyone. It’s racist.
 
Despite horrors like this ~ ‘Honour killing’ of mother, 30, beheaded by her ex-husband… who then decapitated their two young children because they’d watched ~ which seem to be endemic to Islam, Indiana Democratic Rep. Andre Carson claimed in late May that America’s schools should be modeled after Islamic madrassas.
Yes Andre, we’ll just overlook the troubling reality that the religion of peace is anything but.

 
Milford,MA Man Pays Off Mortgage With 800 Pounds Of Pennies ~ On his 35th wedding anniversary.
Daigle says this is a lesson for younger couples: “Do what you say you are going to do.” Great advice!