Blog Heap of Links for the day 7 May 2009

And you thought the John Edwards sex scandal couldn't get seamier. The ex-senator's former lover - furious at being portrayed as a stalker in his wife's media tour - reportedly is taking revenge and will allow a paternity test for her baby after all.

You know the most disillusioning thing about John Edwards? ... the worst thing about Edwards is a total ratings loser. People magazine is going nowhere with this one.

Details of the school bus accident that claimed the life of an Owasso man ... swerved to the right in an attempt to avoid the accident, striking the bus in the rear. The report states that the Malibu became caught under the bus and was sent into the ditch after the bus made a quarter turn....

There are many problems with the official story of the bombing ... no plausible explanation of how he traveled the mile and a quarter from McDonald's to the rental agency, carless and alone as he claims, without getting soaked in the rain. ... took 44 days for the FBI to convince the car rental agency owner that John Doe 1 was Timothy McVeigh ... what was the Army doing with a Ryder Truck just before the Murrah blast? ... [Report:] the second explosive was found and defused. ... men in suits and ties were literally stepping over the wounded in their haste to gather up files and certain other items in the debris. ... taping plastic sheeting over portions of the building wreckage!

Despite Timothy McVeigh's guilty verdict, numerous unanswered questions about the murderous Oklahoma City bombing remain. Indeed, there are so many unanswered questions, it is amazing that the prosecution was able to secure a conviction at all. So pull up a front-row seat for the McVeigh lynching, folks, and contemplate a few of the contradictions in the official account of the OKC bombing before it all gets flushed down the memory hole. If this list doesn't make you paranoid, you must be one of them!

A lot of conspiracy theories have circulated around the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, not all of them consistent with one another, some of them plausible, none of them proven. Although I have no specific theories of my own, I've had the suspicion from the start that someone in the federal government had advanced knowledge that something nasty was going to happen in Oklahoma City that day. As to the details, I am as much in the dark as anyone who wasn't there. Compounding the matter is the fact that — so far, anyway — McVeigh himself isn't talking. He seems to have dismissed all conspiracy theories and reports of "John Doe No. 2's" with the remark in a recent interview that "You can't handle the truth. And the truth is that it is pretty scary that one guy can do this all alone."

A variety of conspiracy theories have been proposed regarding the Oklahoma City bombing. These theories reject all or part of the official government report. Some of these theories focus on the possibility of additional, unindicted co-conspirators or additional explosives planted inside the Murrah Federal building. Other theories allege that government employees and officials, including US President Bill Clinton, knew of the impending bombing and intentionally failed to act on that knowledge. Government investigations have been opened at various times to look into the theories.

This documentary examines eyewitness accounts and news media reports documenting the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City. Included with this presentation is a video affidavit of bombing survior Jane C. Graham and her sightings of strange individuals in the building prior to the tragic event. [video]

The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is searching for the body of a Texas woman believed to have been killed and dumped in Oklahoma.Police in Coppell, Texas, have charged 75-year-old Leroy Tellgren with capital murder in the death of 49-year-old Kathleen Garza even though Garza's body has not been found.

[Video done in Bartlesville. THIS IS GENIUS... in a weird way, of course.]

Bartlesville Police Department officers shot and killed a pit bull dog Wednesday after it reportedly attacked several children before turning on officers.

MADISON COUNTY, MO -- Search crews found the missing three-year-old Madison County boy alive after he was missing for more than 48 hours. Three-year-old Joshua Childers was moved to another hospital. He is in good condition with only minor scratches from sticker bushes....

"I could just see the little part of his little butt sticking up there, and I took a couple more steps, and I could see his legs. I thought the worst at first.... I said, 'Hey, buddy,' And that little feller just sit right up, gets a little smile on his face and I asked him, 'Do you want to go home?'

told police he left Bartlesville due to "personal reasons."

Oklahoma voters will decide whether English should be the state's official language.