Blog Heap of Links for the day 16 June 2015

Representative Mike Rogers from Alabama has submitted a bill to withdraw from The United Nations.… The United Nations has long been a thorn in the side of the United States. They basically take our money and spend it in places and on projects that overall weaken the American stance in the world. Now that I think about it, this administration tends to have the same track record.…

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday finalized a plan to essentially rid the nation’s food supply of artery-clogging artificial trans fat, a move the agency estimates could reduce coronary heart disease and prevent thousands of heart attack deaths a year. …

Thanks to newly-declassified documents from the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of State released to government watchdog Judicial Watch, here’s what we know, quite simply:

1.) The Obama administration indeed knew almost immediately who committed the 2012 attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi — it was associates of al-Qaida and the Muslim Brotherhood. …

2.) The administration knew weapons were being shipped from Benghazi to rebel troops — including ISIS — in Syria. …

3.) And — wait for it — Obama’s administration intentionally helped give rise to ISIS. It even trained them. …

In discussions with people more "tolerant" than I am, I have been told that I should think of sex change as "therapy" for the condition of body dysmorphia; although it seems to me the only form of therapy that involves indulging the delusion of the person being treated.

If a middle-aged man said that he sexually identified as a teenage girl, would he be allowed to hang out in high school girls locker rooms? You know, for therapeutic purposes? Somehow, I don't think that dog would hunt.

…Dolezal rose to prominence as a black woman but was revealed last week as white by her parents.

“I don’t see why they’re in such a rush to whitewash the work that I have done and who I am and how I have identified…”

It got me to thinking,and I said to myself:’self,what a great segue for a nostalgia post.’…

A man who attempted to rob an East Knoxville [Tennessee] convenience store early Monday morning was shot and killed by a bystander… was forcing the female clerk behind the counter at gunpoint. … male friend of the clerk… retrieved his handgun, entered the store and fired one shot…

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve is defending his government’s policy of turning migrants back at the border with Italy. He says that Italy must abide by Schengen rules, and verify whether immigrants are legitimate asylum seekers or economic migrants, before sending the former on to France.

In other news, the Pentagon announced that the target of yesterday’s air sortie in Libya, the Al Qaeda leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar, was most likely killed in the strike.

…more real than that phony-ass ‘trans-racial’ psycho from Spokane.…

…On this day in 1933 the National Industrial Recovery Act was passed. It was the first of FDR's BS depression recovery programs. It was a dismal failure as was all his "recovery" programs. It was subsequently declared unconstitutional by SCOTUS but that did not deter FDR. He was in office long enough to pack the courts, it just took longer than he wanted.