Blog Heap of Links for the day 4 April 2015

"…Larry’s appearance at the AA meeting was memorable, as references to fighting, bloody clothes and so on are extraordinary in that group. Easton Elliott didn’t think much more about Larry until, several weeks later, he saw a newspaper story about Larry Reid, Harry Reid’s brother, being arrested for DUI and assaulting a highway patrolman. …"

…Two years ago in a less turbulent time, Mike Premeau and Kathy Danke launched a small business, Memories Gourmet Pizza Co., in their Wisconsin town. … The two were successful… They grew a base of loyal customers. … But all that was threatened this week when people began mistaking them for Memories Pizza of Walkerton, Indiana…

[Naming the animals cartoon]

…a letter sent out from the Keller Independent School District in Keller, Texas. …they had a speaker who, while discussing ways to alleviate stress had the horrifying audacity to “use overt language asserting his own personal Christian beliefs.” …principal Michael Nasra sent out a letter of apology about this horror. …

Police in Edmond, Oklahoma on Friday busted what they claimed the biggest marijuana growing operation they had ever come across, local media reported. Police said the operation, hidden inside a well-maintained and unremarkable home, contained about 500 plants. …

…graph of over 20 years of Employment-Population ratio data (January 1995 – March 2015), correlated with Majority Party… the WORST month under George W. Bush was better than the BEST month under Barack H. Obama…

[Retired teacher turned writer in Montana has panic attack seeing someone openly carrying in the furniture department.] …How was I to know that the person carrying that gun was someone I could trust? Would he, at any moment, misread a stranger’s comment or movement, pull his gun and blast him/her away? … The absurdity of “protecting” us from some government which will take our guns away makes me question the sanity of these proponents. … Others packing guns do not make me feel safe; they make me feel as if we’re living in some kind of kill-or-be-killed, Mad Max post-apocalyptic horror film. We’re not. [(Emphasis added.) Sure, it's a perfect world until you get held up, honey. You're living in irrational fear. Let's take it further. "I saw a man with bare hands… Would he, at any moment, misread a stranger’s comment or movement, and try to strangle me?" What about the driver in the oncoming car? People walking behind you. Better never leave the house! Sheesh!]

Vic News Network morning report begins here today.

"…On this day in 1975 Microsoft was founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They moved the company to Washington State in 1979."