Blog Heap of Links for the day 24 July 2015

Republican 2016 presidential candidate Ben Carson… "You wonder if he actually knows the history of Planned Parenthood and Margaret Sanger, who was trying to eliminate black people. That was the whole purpose of it."

Representative Diane Black (R-TN) and 80 original cosponsors introduced H.R. 3134, the Defund Planned Parenthood Act of 2015, which would immediately halt all sources of Federal funding to Planned Parenthood and its affiliates for a one year period.… [Video of Cong. Black]

It looks like Planned Parenthood has gone into Def Con 1 as it desperately reviews what it has been revealing about itself to outside venders … now that they realize they let a Biomax representative observe PP actually harvesting organs from fetal remains. … PP is warning their Congressional backers that the worse is yet to come…

According to this, the DOJ is actually opening up an investigation to investigate whether the Center for Medical Progress did anything illegal in secretly videotaping meetings with Planned Parenthood officials who were discussing and negotiating the price of baby livers and lungs and other tissue. You know, because THAT was the greater crime here. …

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif)… "Let’s have an investigation of those people who were trying to ensnare Planned Parenthood in a controversy that doesn’t exist" while dismissing all claims that Planned Parenthood makes profits off selling baby organs. … remarks echoed that of White House press secretary Josh Earnest just a day earlier who defended Planned Parenthood's actions as perfectly legal while decrying the videos as being "selectively edited." …

…[he had] “exhibited extreme erratic behavior and has made ominous as well as disturbing statements” … "a history of mental health issues, i.e., manic depression and/or bi-polar disorder.” … wife also removed all weapons from their home because she feared his “volatile mental state” …

The gunman who opened fire inside a packed movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana, Thursday night, was 59-year-old John Russell Houser… from Phenix City, Alabama… no known connection to Lafayette… was estranged from his family and had mental health issues… applied for gun but did not pass the background check… supported Barack Obama [perversely]… "the faster he wrecks this nation, which in no way resembles what it’s founders envisioned, the faster working people with morals may re-assume command. ie I was for his re-election.…"

…Despite tensions between the United States and China over the South China Sea, the two nations’ militaries train together at a very high level. … [War News Updates editor: "It makes you wonder if Pentagon and U.S. foreign policy has become schizophrenic."]

…“The process of death wishing, in the guise of liberalism, has been eroding the civilization of the West for a century and more, and now would seem to be about to reach its apogee. The Liberal mind, effective everywhere, whether in power or in opposition, has provided the perfect instrument. Systematically, stage by stage, dismantling our Western way of life, depreciating and deprecating all its values so that the whole social structure is now tumbling down, dethroning its God, undermining all its certainties. And all this, wonderfully enough, in the name of the health, wealth and happiness of all mankind.…" —Malcolm Muggeridge

A group was fed up with waiting, so they got a shovel and dug up a patch of grass next to Nathan Bedford Forrest’s grave and statue in a public park in the Medical District. The group says they wanted the statue and remains removed for a long time, because he was a Confederate soldier, a KKK leader and a slave trader. “If he’s gone, some of this racism and race-hate might be gone,” said [a random insane person]… The group told WREG if the process took too long, the could take more drastic measures.…

Update — A Tennessee man drove across the state to repair the damage…

… Obama added… When people throw up their hands and say "there's nothing that can be done,… then what you get are protest movements on the left, or the right — I mean, to some degree the Tea Party is an expression of frustration; they see a bunch of stuff going on that they don't understand and they feel threatened by, and then they react." …

…Though I hadn’t touched the dashboard, the vents in the Jeep Cherokee started blasting cold air at the maximum setting, chilling the sweat on my back through the in-seat climate control system. Next the radio switched to the local hip hop station and began blaring Skee-lo at full volume. I spun the control knob left and hit the power button, to no avail. Then the windshield wipers turned on, and wiper fluid blurred the glass.

As I tried to cope with all this, a picture of the two hackers performing these stunts appeared on the car’s digital display: Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, wearing their trademark track suits. A nice touch, I thought.…

Lord Weidenfeld, an influential British publisher whom Christians helped escape Nazi-occupied Austria during his youth, has set up a fund to help save Syrian and Iraqi Christian refugees from the Islamic State (ISIS) terror group. … “We have been deeply moved by the plight of Christians in conflict-torn Middle East countries, and we are supporting the transfer of Christian families to safe havens where they can lead normal lives.” …

…Patch reports the two were estranged when he set off, and that his wife, who was widowed once before, didn’t want to repeat the experience. She has reportedly told him his quest is “the most romantic thing.” Hites says he doesn’t know his exact weight now (he dresses in size 70 pants), but he may weigh himself on the big scale at the junkyard up the road before getting back on the saddle. He says he hopes to drop down to a chubby but healthier 300 pounds.…

Ted Cruz told the New York Times that he identified with Star Trek’s Captain Kirk more than Captain Picard because he felt that Kirk was more of a conservative and Picard more of a liberal.…

…That's when Beiswenger brought him a shovel.

"It was quite a shock to pull the dog up and the gator is still attached to the dog," he recalled.

Bloodied, but with all her legs still attached, Hope ran onto the dry land and the gator followed.

Daniels recalled hitting the gator on the top of the head with the shovel and the gator swimming off.

Beiswenger picked up Hope, put her in a golf cart and drove her to the clubhouse. Once there, she grabbed a tablecloth and used it as a tourniquet. She managed to get Hope to an emergency vet nearby.…

Not so long ago, the average American man in his 20s had achieved most of the milestones of adulthood: a high-school diploma, financial independence, marriage and children. Today, most men in their 20s hang out in a novel sort of limbo, a hybrid state of semi-hormonal adolescence and responsible self-reliance. This “pre-adulthood” has much to recommend it, especially for the college-educated. But it’s time to state what has become obvious to legions of frustrated young women: It doesn’t bring out the best in men.…

…head of the US Northern Command has now issued a directive to authorize recruiters not to be able to carry weapons at the centers but he wants them to implement new security measures like “closing the blinds at the office.” …

“Some of the Marines who were shot to death last week in Chattanooga, Tenn., effectively sacrificed themselves to save the lives of others, diverting the gunman away from a larger group of potential victims, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation into the killings,”

Have you ever wondered what you would do if you were alone and your home was invaded by a stranger who was bigger and more powerful than you? …it actually happened to me. … If it had not been for the training, the planning, the practice, being aware of and exercising my Second Amendment rights, things could have ended in tragedy. …

…On this day in 1929 the Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, went into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers). The progressives of that era were just as stupid as the progressives/liberals of this era. They thought they could outlaw war.…