Blog Heap of Links for the day 1 July 2012

Barry was quite the accomplished marijuana enthusiast back in high school and college. Excerpts from David Maraniss' Barack Obama: The Story dealing with the elaborate drug culture surrounding the president when he attended Punahou School in Honolulu and Occidental College in Los Angeles. He inhaled. A lot.

Jack Lew, the Obama White House Chief of Staff, was trying to persuade Chris Wallace on FOX News Sunday that Obamacare was not a tax. But it didn’t work out so well for Lew when Wallace played audio of the Obama lawyer arguing that Obamacare was a tax in front of the Supreme Court. [Video]

Allen West responded to the election results in Egypt. … "Clearly the Arab Spring is nothing more than a radical Islamic nightmare. … I call upon President Barack Obama to cut off American foreign aid to Egypt, denounce the results of this election, repudiate the Muslim Brotherhood, and all radical Islamist political entities."

Reddit, Foursquare, Mozilla and a number of other companies were hit with technical problems Saturday evening when a single “leap second” was added to the world’s atomic clocks. And so was born the “leap second bug.” … The Linux operating system, the Java application platform and many other sites that depend on them were affected. They use the Network Time Protocol to keep themselves aligned with atomic clocks. When the extra second was added, the software platforms didn’t know what to do with it.

There could be 30,000 drones over the US by 2020. [large graphic]

On Monday, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry made some startling accusations. Harris-Perry told her audience that 9-11 gave America PTSD. She added that Muslim terrorists were an imagined racial enemy for “white America.” [Video. Just when you think they can't go lower…]

A most interesting dicotamy could easily arise in this 2012 Presidential Election should the candidates be asked the following question in a televised debate.... 'Mr. Candidate, this nation was chiefly founded on Christianity ... the Urantia Book claims to be, in part, a correction of Christianity ... what then are your views regarding the Urantia Book?" Both Christianity and Mormonism are religions 'about' Jesus. The Urantia Book (UB) purports to contain not only the full life of Jesus but the re-stating of the religion 'of' Jesus.

It's one thing to tell civilian employees to cower under a desk if a gunman starts spraying fire in a confined area, say members of Tucson Local 2544/National Border Patrol Council, but to give armed law enforcement professionals the same advice is downright insulting. [Fox News]
[War News Updates editor comments:] To me .... these instructions are bizarre .... but here is the kicker .... to many others (including some in Homeland Security) .... these instructions are very reasonable and they make total sense.

.... ‘When I arrived in Helmand, my officers said our tactics were going to change. ‘They said that if I saw somebody carrying a rifle or a rocket launcher, I shouldn’t fire at him. Only if he shot at me or a member of my patrol, and I could see a muzzle flash from his rifle, could I use my weapon. ‘I was shocked and so were my mates. We are trained to close in and kill the enemy, not to let him stroll on, watch us and let him choose the best time to ambush us.

In 2008 Barack Obama admitted that he and his wife do not give birthday presents to their two daughters, Malia and Sasha. … But he wants yours… Today the Obama Campaign asked supporters to forgo birthday and wedding presents and send the cash to the Obama campaign.

Governor Romney raised over $4 million in twenty hours following the Obamacaretax ruling yesterday by the Supreme Court.