Blog Heap of Links for the day 15 March 2015

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Wars and Rumors

ISIS has blown up a 10th century Chaldean Catholic church north of Mosul. The building that was located in the Ba’werah neighborhood on a hill north of Mosul. ISIS also bulldozed a nearby graveyard. … building was founded by the Assyrian Church of the East in the 10th century. The building was converted into a seminary by the Chaldean Catholic Church in 1846.

5:06pm CDT Sun 2015 Mar 15 :MW
Crazyface

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A pair of suicide bombers detonated themselves near two churches in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Sunday as worshippers were gathered inside — killing 15 people, officials said, in the latest attack against religious minorities in the increasingly fractured country.

In the tense aftermath of the blasts, an angry Christian mob turned violent — blocking a major highway, burning cars, ransacking a bus terminal setting two people on fire who the mob suspected of involvement in the attacks. Christian demonstrators blocked roads in other major Pakistani cities as well.

4:45pm CDT Sun 2015 Mar 15 :MW

International Incidents

Putin

Vladimir Putin is 'alive' but 'neutralised' as shadowy security chiefs stage a stealthy coup in Moscow, it was claimed last night.

Former FSB chief Nikolai Patrushev was behind the plot, claimed chairman of the pro-Kremlin national Islamic Committee, Geydar Dzhemal.

There have been no confirmed sightings of Putin for nine days, while in the febrile atmosphere engulfing Moscow a convoy of large trucks parked outside the Kremlin fueled rumours of a flit by the president. …

3:39pm CDT Sun 2015 Mar 15 :MW

Know the Enemy

Kerry

Internet gaffe by US government as UK extremist's sharia law photo used in free speech ad
• US government posted a British Muslim extremist's photograph online
• Picture showed veiled women calling for sharia law during London protest
• State Department used photo as an inspirational example of free speech
• But the banner was also used in an extremist campaign for strict sharia law

5:10pm CDT Sun 2015 Mar 15 :MW
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It's Only Money

…Jackson’s detractors often claim that he was a bloodthirsty Indian hater, who really embraced removal because he wanted to wipe out American Indians to please avaricious white frontiersmen. However, this one-dimensional view of Jackson as a Satanic butcher is an incredibly unfair characterization of a man who did not possess the virulent racial animus frequently ascribed to him. …

12:53pm CDT Sun 2015 Mar 15 :MW

Life and Death

…The waitress, Claire Hudson, was serving a couple at Mac’s Grub Shak. The couple’s bill came to $28.12. Hudson was startled when she realized they left her a 130 percent tip accompanied by this note. …

4:50pm CDT Sun 2015 Mar 15 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Hillary

[Joe Dan Gorman's latest construction deconstructs candidate Hillary.

"The Clintons are like cockroaches… You can’t get rid of them."

4:43pm CDT Sun 2015 Mar 15 :MW

Vic daily battle vs the World begins here.

"On this day in 1956 Lerner and Lowe's musical My Fair Lady began its long time run on Broadway…."

7:05am CDT Sun 2015 Mar 15 :MW

US Election 2016

Ted Cruz

…Sen. Ted Cruz, a likely GOP frontrunner, recently released this ad titled “A Time For Truth,” and I’ve got to say, I’m digging it. It’s not a bunch of mumbo jumbo. I’ve heard him harp on these same points in some of his live speeches over the past couple of years. …

[Video 1:11, SenTedCruz on YouTube]

5:00pm CDT Sun 2015 Mar 15 :MW