Blog Heap o'Links for August 2015

On this day in 1803 Lewis and Clark started their expedition to the west leaving Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 11 in the morning.

Aug 24 …Two Iowa men were arrested by Boston police after posting threats on social media. Kevin Norton and James Stumbo were arrested on Friday with several guns in their possession. … Boston Police Department says they were notified of the social media threats on Thursday and were able to stop the two suspects as they attempted to enter the event… It’s not clear at this point what they have against Pokemon.

…The family took a series of vacation photos of their six and four-year-old children running around and having a great time climbing on the barnacle-covered “buoy.” … “My son was touching it and was knocking on it a little bit, and that was it really.” …after posting photos… people became alarmed, because instead of a beach buoy what the family was crawling all over was an unexploded United States military mine bomb from WWII.…

Jack Kirby, co-creator of much of the Marvel Universe and creator of, among other things, the Fourth World characters, Kamandi and dozens more for DC Comics, would have turned 98 years old today.

In honor of The King's birthday, comic book retailers, fans, nonprofits and more are holding birthday parties for Kirby, which you can find out about using the #Kirby4Heroes hashtag on social media.…

California Gov. Jerry Brown, D-Calif., said Hillary Clinton's emails seem to have a "dark energy" which he compared to that of "a vampire."…

'If the internet goes down, half the planet will come to a standstill': why 'preppers' will be the last ones standing…

…died of stomach cancer. She was 42… Marcy Borders… After the attacks, Borders spiraled into a decade-long deep depression and alcohol and drug abuse, though she eventually recovered. …no one had contacted her in the months that followed the attacks and her photo was beamed around the world. No aid organizations helped her and no one had told her that mental services were available for free for 9/11 survivors.…

Three people have been hurt after a heavily armed man opened fire on a train in northern France, before being overpowered by two American passengers. …on the high-speed Thalys service near Arras… one [American] was seriously injured, as was another passenger. …arrested was a 26-year-old Moroccan… weapons were said to include a Kalashnikov, a knife, an automatic pistol and cartridges. … French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve … praised the Americans …they were "particularly courageous and showed great bravery in very difficult circumstances… Without their composure we could have been confronted with a terrible incident." …passengers who overpowered the suspect were US Marines who had heard the man loading a weapon in a toilet cubicle and confronted him when he came out.…

ISIS Bulldozes Ancient Christian Monastery Including Tomb Of Saint Elian in Syria

18 Aug 2015 - Sharia Watch director and former UKIP candidate Anne Marie Waters has announced today that a forthcoming exhibition of Mohammed cartoons to be shown in London has been cancelled after discussions with counter-terror police.…

…This may not be a grand-scale combat engagement with massive tank formations, but where there’s violent conflict between ideologies, there is war.

This new battlefield will not comprise massive armies; rather, non-state, non-uniformed belligerents supported by nation-states. Even Russia has learned the art of deploying “para-military” forces to covertly conduct their business of armed conflict. And so it’s imperative to interdict the flow of finances and material support to these unlawful enemy combatants.…

The militant Palestinian group Hamas has "arrested" a dolphin discovered off the Gaza coast and accused it of being… an Israeli spy. …Army Radio reported that the dolphin was decked out with "spying equipment," including cameras, when it was captured by Hamas' naval unit.…

Two men in Poland claim they have found a legendary Nazi train that according to local lore was loaded with gold, gems and valuable art and vanished into a system of secret tunnels as the Germans fled advancing Soviet forces at the end of World War II.

Historians say the existence of the train has never been conclusively proven, but authorities are not passing up this chance at possibly recovering treasures that have sparked the imaginations of local people for decades.

"We believe that a train has been found. We are taking this seriously"…

Apparently there are killer, crazy ants in Birmingham which are addicted to electricity, and can bite, sting, and spread salmonella.

Planned Parenthood announced Tuesday that it is launching ads targeting vulnerable Republican senators over talk of defunding the organization. … Sens. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) …face tough reelection races next year. …Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), who faces one of the toughest races next year, was the lone Republican senator to oppose the procedural motion, and he is not targeted in the ads.…

…In the video, Cate Dyer, the CEO of StemExpress, is shown in a lunch meeting with undercover operatives posing as representatives of a biotech firm. Dyer is laughing about how StemExpress purchases fully intact aborted babies from Planned Parenthood. She laughs about how shippers of the aborted babies would give a warning to lab workers to expect such a baby.

“Oh yeah, if you have intact cases — which we’ve done a lot — we sometimes ship those back to our lab in its entirety,” she says.

“Tell the lab its coming,” she laughs about the intact unborn babies. “You know, open the box and go ‘Oh my God,'” Dyer adds.…

The Center for Medical Progress released their seventh video Wednesday morning on the Planned Parenthood harvesting scandal. … tells a former procurement technician’s harrowing story of harvesting an intact brain from a late-term male fetus whose heart was still beating after the abortion.…

In Greensboro, EPA-funded contractors grading a toxic 19th-century cotton mill site struck a water main, sending the deadly sediment into a nearby creek. Though that accident took place five months ago, the hazard continues as heavy storms — one hit the area Tuesday — wash more soil into the creek.

The sediment flows carry dangerous mercury, lead, arsenic and chromium downstream to Lake Oconee and then to the Oconee River — home to many federally and state protected species.

Lead in the soil at the project site is 20,000 times higher than federal levels established for drinking water…

…Turns out that this isn't the first time the EPA has been engaging in craptacular shenanigans in the Animas River and trying to cover it up. According to this, the EPA's been dumping toxic sludge from mines into the river going back to 2005…

…Experts differed over the best color for the tiny plastic balls, with one telling FoxNews.com they should have been white and another saying a chrome color would be optimal. But all agreed that the worst color for the job is the one LA chose. …

n a Friday sermon in Jerusalem earlier this month, Muslim cleric Sheikh Issam Amira slammed presidential candidate Donald Trump's plan to move the Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip to Puerto Rico in order to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

But the supposed plan was reported in satirical news piece posted on a comedy news site that produces spoof articles and the sheikh was seemingly duped.…

August 18 OKTAHA, Oklahoma - The Muskogee County sheriff said a member of the group guarding an Oktaha gun shop accidentally shot himself Tuesday. … dropped his gun and a bullet hit him in the arm. …did not identify the man or offer any other details… The group of armed citizens and veterans is standing guard outside the Save Yourself Survival and Tactical Gear store after the owners said they received death threats from all over the world for putting up a sign saying Muslims weren't welcome.…

An Oklahoma man who made threats against President Obama and former Presidents George W. Bush and Clinton — and who said he wanted to be the "next John Hinckley" — was stopped Sunday outside the White House. … Archie Monroe Glass, Jr.… was able to get within close range of the White House, despite being under travel restrictions and the supervision of probation officials and mental health providers.…

A new study suggests that joining a religious group could do more for someone’s “sustained happiness” than other forms of social participation, such as volunteering, playing sports or taking a class.…

SGM Ernie Tabata, Legend in the Special Forces community, departed on his Final Infil 10 August 2015… an SF legend, is Distinguished Member of the Regiment, his service, military and as civilian instructor spanned 59 years. He trained and was loved by legions of SF demo men.…

“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”

― Theodore Roosevelt

…turns out he’s a 15-year-old from Iowa. Unlike his competitors in the race to be president in 2016 … Deez Nuts has no public profile. He will likely never appear in any televised debates; he has never held public office. Wednesday was a big day for Deez Nuts. First he won 9% of the vote as an independent in a Public Policy Polling poll of voters in North Carolina – which, on top of recent results of 8% in Minnesota and 7% in Iowa from previous polls, makes him what experts confirmed is the most successful independent candidate for president in two decades. It was also the day of his high school sophomore orientation.…

Deez Nuts is currently the top Independent candidate.

Islamic State militants beheaded a renowned antiquities scholar in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra and hung his mutilated body on a column in a main square of the historic site because he apparently refused to reveal where valuable artefacts had been moved for safekeeping.

The brutal murder of Khaled al-Asaad, 82… highlighted Isis’s habit of looting and selling antiquities to fund its activities – as well as destroying them.…

1966: Stock market collapse, Vietnam War, protests
1973: Oil embargo (Oct), Yom Kippur war, Stocks collapse, recession
1980: Inflation, Iran-Iraq war, Silver panic, Stocks crash, recession
1987: Black Monday (Oct.), largest single-day crash ever
1994: Bond collapse, DJIA bear market, war
2001: Stock market crash, 911 (Sept.), recession
2008: Stock market collapse 9/29 (Sept.), recession
2015: …

…they spotted a 10cm mass growing in her left ovary. …could rupture and kill the 45-year-old… discovered it was her undeveloped unborn twin which had grown inside her from birth. …complete with face, an eye, tooth, and long black hair like Jenny's. … "I feel very lucky that they found it and removed it before it killed me. I try not to think of it too much because I don't want to feel sad about it. If I'm honest, I did feel sad when I first saw it, because of the size and weight of it, it had already been likened to a baby. But I try not to feel sad about it. I try to remember that it had no heart and no brain. …

From coaching little league to handing out gift cards to strangers in need, these officers made us freeze, put our hands above our heads, and applaud their acts of kindness.. …

…Reports indicate that much of the infighting between the Roma gangs are over the ownership of women, while the Arabs are much more profit-motivated. Even in areas where gypsies have seized control of the prostitution rackets, they are still forced to pay protection money to the Muslims who rule the city, reports the Berliner Kurier…

I know this part of Bangkok very well. The Erawan shrine is in the heart of the business and shopping area… The shrine is a major tourist attraction. The Thai government said the attack was aimed at foreigners. Local media reports that tourists, including Chinese, are among the casualties. … In determining who placed the bombs or why, suspicion falls upon the Islamic extremist terror movement - aligned with IS - which has emerged from the Muslim south. … I recently discussed the probability of IS-aligned terror cells from southern Thailand becoming operational in Bangkok and directing their actions against foreigners. Unfortunately, I was correct.

Astronauts would ascend 12 miles into the stratosphere before taking off under new plans to build a space lift… “From the top of the tower, space planes will launch in a single stage to orbit, returning to the top of the tower for refuelling and reflight.” …

…The first three phases to the Islamic State’s plan to defeat the West have already passed…

A California Vietnam Marine Corps veteran fought off a 250-pound black bear outside of his Mariposa County home last week. The battle left the Purple Heart recipient with several scars including on his wrist, face, neck and stomach.

“I could hear the crunching…when he bit down (on my wrist). He ripped towards my neck and then again the belly,” Larry Yepez, 66, recalled in an interview with CNN affiliate KGPE. He then started fighting with the bear, punching it and ultimately pushing it off with both of his legs.…

The number of Hillary Clinton emails flagged for potentially classified content has grown to more than 300,…

In an amazing act of patriotism and honor, bikers across the nation made sure the remains of Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Johnathan Turner–a veteran of seven tours in Iraq and Afghanistan–made it home to his mother.…

…“We wanted to make sure that [Cruz] heard from us,” protester Robert Nunn told ABC affiliate KATV. They made sure a lot of people heard them. Including a guy who dumped a bucket of water right down on them.…

…Dewey Police Department Sgt. Tim Stringer was at the Dewey school directing traffic and greeting children Wednesday morning when he said was approached by a couple and their preschool-aged son. He reportedly told the family “good morning” and said they responded, but then the father, in reference to Stringer, told the little boy, “If you don’t behave, he’ll bust a cap in your a—.”

Stinger said he was surprised not only by the man’s use of profanity to the child, but also the assertion that the boy should fear the police.

“I proceeded to let the dad know I didn’t appreciate what he said in no uncertain terms, but I did it so I wouldn’t scare the child,” he said, adding that the father’s assertion is the opposite of what he wants children, especially young children, to take away from an encounter with law enforcement.

“The message I want to get to the parents is, don’t make us the boogie man, because you hate what you fear,” he said. “Most people who are afraid of snakes, hate snakes. … If you teach a child to fear something, they will eventually learn to hate it.” …

It’s easy to come up with a list of the GOP’s conservative promises…. (repeal Obamacare, stop executive amnesty, etc.)…the hard part is finding a promise they haven’t broken…and not just recently. The GOP has not only passively broken their promises—but they’re ACTIVELY helping the other team.…

As the 70th anniversary of the end of the second world war looms, two would-be suicide pilots described how they prepared to die for their emperor and country…

By now you’ve probably watched a few hilarious rants from the “Stump For Trump” ladies. And even if you don’t agree with them on absolutely everything, they do make some good points and can give you a good laugh.

According to this, they were scheduled to go on MSNBC with Steve Kornacki. They dedicated around 4 hours preparing for their appearance, but MSNBC cancelled them at the last minute after they refused to give them their home address, the names of their children and the names of their employers.…

John Kerry In Cuba: “I Feel Very Much At Home Here”

Headline: Oklahoma Gun Range Causes Outrage With Racist Sign That Business Is 'Muslim Free'

The EPA is reportedly trying to strong-arm Navajo Indian leaders to sign away their rights to future claims against the agency from the Gold King Mine disaster.…

Six decades after "Gunsmoke" debuted on television, several actors who appeared in the show, including Burt Reynolds, are scheduled to reunite in Dodge City. … "Gunsmoke" ran on CBS from 1955 through 1975 and was nominated for more than a dozen Emmys. … Other key actors from the show have died, including James Arness, who starred as Matt Dillon; Amanda Blake, who played Miss Kitty; and Milburn Stone, who was Doc Adams.

They stood together in the dugout at Shea Stadium and stared. It was Aug. 15, 1965, and the Beatles had just been flown into Queens by helicopter and hustled through a stadium shaking with screams.

There had never been an outdoor concert of this scale—a sold-out sports stadium. As archival footage shows, teenagers clawed at the metal fences behind home plate, and more than 55,000 fans pressed forward for their first glimpse. Raw shrieks ripped the air.…

Wiley Post didn’t have time to react when the plane he was piloting began to sputter after taking off near Point Barrow, Alaska, on Aug. 15, 1935 — 80 years ago today — on what was supposed to be a 10-minute flight.

The Lockheed Orion Explorer included a massive 550-horsepower engine and, when it began to misfire and lose power, the plane tilted to the right and plunged 60 feet into the ground. The force of the impact drove the engine into the fuselage, killing Post and Oklahoma’s favorite son, Will Rogers.…

It was an unscripted moment like few others on the presidential campaign trail Monday in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

Ted Cruz paused for a moment and looked into the audience at a community center for a man who changed his family’s life.

“I was told Pastor Gaylon Wiley was here…”

……whale appeared to be asking for help as it swam closely to their boats … One of the men removed fishing lines and rubbish bags out of its mouth … whale apparently showed its appreciation by flapping its fin…

Here are the latest standings of conservative news and opinion sites, which are ordered using theirAlexa traffic rankings. Yes, some of these are center-right, libertarian, or more middle-of-the-road sites, but they are included because they do publish center-right opinion pieces on a regular basis.

…"Recent liver surgery revealed that I have cancer that now is in other parts of my body,” Carter said in the statement released by the Carter Center. “I will be rearranging my schedule as necessary so I can undergo treatment by physicians at Emory Healthcare.”…

…“Now I’m in their crosshairs again,” she said reminding them of the opposing corporations and “right wing operatives” that were trying to block her agenda.

“Now they’ll try and tell you that this is about Benghazi, but it’s not,” she said, referring to the attacks as a “tragedy” that should be prevented in the future.

“It’s not about Benghazi, and you know what, it’s not about emails or servers either, it’s about politics,” she shouted.…

…a truck bomb attack killed more than 60 and possibly as many as 70 people and wounded many more in a mainly Shiite area of North Baghdad. Detonating at around 6:00 am Baghdad time in a Sadr City market, more than 200 people were injured… ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack.…

Idriss Déby, the president of Chad, pronounced the battle against the notorious ISIS-linked terrorists of Boko Haram a rousing success on Tuesday, declaring that the group had been “decapitated” and would be mopped up “by the end of the year.”

However, Tuesday also brought word of a massive bomb attack on a crowded market in Nigeria that appears to have been the work of Boko Haram. 47 people were reportedly killed in this attack, with 52 more injured.…

WALLER COUNTY, Texas — A group of armed members of the New Black Panther Party marched on the Waller County Jail Wednesday afternoon chanting “The revolution is on… Off the pigs,” and “Oink Oink… Bang Bang!” The group of about fifteen Black Panthers exercised their First and Second Amendment rights. The group was met in Waller County by a large contingent of Harris County (Houston) Sheriff’s Office deputies.…

…Think about this. A snail darter’s life will be deemed more important than providing water to human beings. But electricity provided by the leftist’s preferred technology is more important than eagles.… "Lana Krol, associate veterinarian at Lindsay Wildlife Rehabilitation Hospital, releases a female golden eagle at Las Trampas Regional Wilderness…in May. The eagle died this past week after hitting a wind turbine." … There are nearly 5,000 energy-generating turbines at Altamont Pass, where the golden eagle was fatally struck.…

…An alert neighbor contacted Rogers County Sheriff’s Deputies when she saw what looked like a man dragging a horse behind his all-terrain vehicle… said he was “trying to teach his horse how to lead.” …

…Four days after visiting Grand Lake, Jo Rogers thought she had the flu. On day five, her family took her to a hospital.… By day six, doctors said Jo’s organs were shutting down.… “By Saturday morning, her arms and feet were turning dark blue and black… It was crawling up her limbs.” …then someone thought to check for what may have happened just one week earlier, a tick bite that went unnoticed. The one tiny bite, enough for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever to ravage Jo’s body, forcing doctor’s to amputate her arms and legs.… Now a quad amputee, Jo’s family is rallying around her, raising money to help her in her new life they say she’s lucky to have.…

An Oklahoma man has died after contracting a waterborne disease while swimming in a local lake…Carter County resident, contracted Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis (PAM), a rare infection that derives from contact with Naegleria fowleri— also referred to as the brain-eating amoeba— while swimming in Lake Murray, a 5,700-acre lake in the south central part of the state.…

The Governor of California is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. … why California is broke and Texas is not.

The IKEA superstore near Stockholm which witnessed a double murder this week by Eritrean asylum seekers has responded by ending the sale of kitchen knives in-store, and the government has stepped up its policing at asylum-lodgings to defend against a backlash.

The response of the Swedish authorities to the ‘stabbings’ which killed what is reported to be a Swedish native mother and son shopping in the Västerås branch of IKEA – the largest in the country – has mystified some international observers.… unconfirmed suggestions in the fringe press that the killers shouted “Allah Akbar” as they struck. … IKEA stores are gun-free zones…

BERLIN — When Margot Bachmann began her search for her mother — from whom she was separated by the Nazi German government in 1944 — the odds looked slim that she would get solid facts, much less a reunion.

Instead, thanks to the help of the International Tracing Service (ITS), the 70-year-old found her mother alive and well, age 91, in Italy.…

…letter to the editor of The Silverton Standard and The Miner by a retired geologist predicted the disastrous toxic spill in Colorado at the hands of the Environmental Protection Agency exactly one week prior to the accident. Taking it one step further, the author added that they will do this on purpose in order to secure more funding.…

One of the suspects accused in the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry has plead guilty to first degree murder charges. Under the plea deal, Rosario Rafael Burboa-Alvarez will be sentenced to 30 years in prison.

Burboa-Albarez was not at the scene the night of Terry’s murder in Arizona in Dec. of 2010; he was in Mexico– the one who recruited and paid the so-called “rip-crew” of illegal immigrant criminals that opened fire on Terry and other agents.

In 2012, Burboa-Alvarez was found living and working illegally in Phoenix and was arrested.…

Norman, Oklahoma …Childers grabbed a lever-action rifle and chased the man down, but once he had him cornered he remembered the gun was not loaded. So he told the man to take off running, and said he would let him go if he got to the end of the driveway before Childers caught him again. In the interim, Childers grabbed ammo, loaded the rifle, and jumped on his four wheeler. He caught the alleged home invader before he reached the end of the driveway and held him at gunpoint until police arrived.…

…On this day in 1942 Walt Disney's fifth full-length animated film, Bambi, was released to theaters.…

Women are emotionally hit hardest after a break-up – but men suffer more in the long term and may never truly get over it.…

…"I was just on my way to the American sweet shop to buy some Gatorade, when I saw this guy in his 30s sitting on the ledge of the bridge. I just thought, 'wow...'.

"I stopped and asked him if he was okay, but I knew from the look in his eyes he wasn't, and he didn't say anything either, but I saw tears coming from his eyes.

"I pleaded with him for a while to come down and sit on the steps, and eventually he did. We sat on the sidewalk on the south side of the Liffey and talked for about 45 minutes, about what was happening to him, why was he feeling that way..."

…Josh and his fellow workers begin every day in the railroad yard across the street from Leonard’s run-down home in Pendleton, Oregon.

One day last month, Josh overhead some kids making rude remarks about how the house should just “be burned down” because it was in such bad shape. Leonard overhead them, too, and looked visibly hurt.

Determined to erase that hurt with something positive, Josh asked a few fellow railroaders to help out.… Worried he wouldn’t have enough helping hands with only a week’s notice, Josh posted his plea on Facebook. “The post blew up like wildfire,” and was shared more than 6,000 times.

One week later, more than 100 people showed up to help paint, and others sent donations of money, food and drinks.…

…On this day in 1935 Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.…

Hero SAS sniper gunned down a knife-wielding Islamic State (ISIS) maniac just as he was trying to brutally behead a father and his young son.… head shot from 1,000 metres away… "They were last seen heading towards the Turkish border in a pick-up truck. It was a good day’s work." …the village held a party to celebrate the deaths of the ISIS fighters and it is understood terrorists have since refused to enter the town.…

…The researchers examined fragments of 24 clay pipes that were recovered from the garden of Shakespeare's home in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, as well as from surrounding houses. After examining the fragments using a gas chromatography technique, the scientists found that eight of the pipes contained traces of cannabis, one contained nicotine, and two contained traces of cocaine derived from Peruvian coca leaves. Four of the pipes containing cannabis came from Shakespeare's property. …

…The shelter did a microchip scan and found that the owner information actually belonged to someone else in Tennessee. …led to a man named Lloyd Goldston. He said his dog went missing at the age of one when the family moved nine years ago from Tennessee to Alabama.…

A French couple who died hiking in the searing heat of the New Mexico desert may have saved the life of their ten-year-old son by giving him the bulk of their dwindling supply of water… The family reportedly only packed two half-litre bottles of water between the three of them - far less than the four litres per person recommended by authorities.…

…Dr. Nicholas Reeves of the University of Arizona told the Times of London that he believes he has discovered a secret doorway leading from the tomb of King Tut to that of, Nefertiti, believed to be the boy-king's mother and one of the most powerful women of the ancient world.…

…The girls told investigators they hoped killing Payton would please Slender Man, a character they had read about in online horror stories. The tales describe Slender Man as an unnaturally thin, faceless creature who preys on children.

Police captured the girls on the outskirts of the city that same day. They told investigators they planned to walk 300 miles to the Nicolet National Forest, where they hoped to live as Slender Man's servants in his mansion.

All three girls were 12 years old at the time.…

…On this day in 1929 Babe Ruth hit his 500th home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.…

Jihadis' VJ Day plot to bomb the Queen: Police and MI5 in race against time to foil 'spectacular' Boston Marathon copycat IED attack next Saturday

7 Aug - Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) militiamen have kidnapped 230 Syrian civilians, including 19 children and 45 women, after invading a village in the province of Homs in central Syria. Among the hostages are 60 Christians… included Christians who had fled Aleppo province to the north in search of safety in the village of al-Qaryatain…

So there's this guy in Arlington, Virginia who was walking around with his Confederate/Gadsden hybrid flag (it's basically a Confederate Battle flag with the Gadsden "Don't Tread on Me" snake in the middle). And, according to this, some "concerned citizen" (nosy neighbor is more like it) snapped a picture of the guy and then called 911 because the guy was "walking very deliberately" with his flag. He wasn't talking to anyone or harrassing anybody or trespassing on private property. Just - walking around with his flag. …

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt: EPA Rule A Political Power Grab Over Power Grid

…The EPA is under fire today after workers from the agency accidentally triggered a leak of wastewater while attempting to clean up an old gold mine near the city of Durango, Colorado, sending an estimated one million gallons of the toxic liquid into the Animas River. (Twitchy)

“He worked for Phillips in the basement at 310 W. 5th in Bartlesville and on one occasion he was working on something that killed about half the birds in Bartlesville. He had glasses about an inch thick and grew a ton of tomatoes in his garden every year. He always rode a bike to work; his eyesight may have been too bad for him to be able to drive. You could not tell by looking but he was a brilliant man and did co-invent the aerosol can.”

…She shouted the word "danger" to her service dog, a golden Labrador named Yolanda, prompting the dog to dial 911 on a specialized phone. …

Two teenagers, boyfriend and girlfriend, are now joking that they have an “electric love” because they were struck by lightning while holding hands in Claremont on Thursday.… A doctor said that the young lovers’ lives were probably saved by the fact that they were holding hands….

On August 6, residents and Bonner County Sheriff Daryl Wheeler lined up outside the Priest River, Idaho, home of veteran John Arnold to prevent the Veterans Administration (VA) from taking away his guns.…

In a stunning reversal of fortune for more than a thousand immigrant asylum-seekers and their families in Maine, it appears that Governor Paul LePage, who vehemently opposes any state or municipal aid going to these victims of violence and persecution, has just accidentally enshrined into law their eligibility for General Assistance. … LePage’s staff is claiming that he engaged in what’s known as a “pocket veto…” used to kill bills outright after the Legislature has adjourned. …the legislature hasn’t adjourned…

The Tablet, a prominent Jewish magazine, accused the Obama White House of using Nazi-style attacks on Jews who disagree with the foolish nuclear deal with the Iranian regime. …

The notion that Trump or ANY external source is destroying the GOP—is absolute nonsense. The GOP wounds are self-inflicted, and these guys are sounding more and more like Obama, blaming others for their own failures.

Fiorina, Fiorina, Fiorina. Also Schumer. And Much More.

…On this day in 1901, The U.S. Steel Recognition Strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers began. Like most of the early labor organizations this union was largely communist. This strike failed. In fact it left the steel workers in worse shape than they were before the strike. Eventually the unions succeeded in organizing the steel companies. And eventually the steel companies went out of business and all production moved to non-union mills overseas.

…Lankford, R-Oklahoma City, choked up during a speech on the Senate floor in which he questioned whether the United States needed to reassess its most basic principles. And he was a lead author of the bill to bar the group from getting any federal funds.

That bill was blocked in the Senate, but the issue is expected to be a major component of the budget negotiations next month between the Republican-held Congress and President Barack Obama.… has been spending the majority of his time lately examining the way federal agencies make regulations. It is the type of un-sexy work the wonkish Lankford has specialized in since coming to Congress in 2011, first as a House member.…

CHEYENNE - The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a new statement that seeks to address media reports that military personnel and their families have been targeted by Middle Eastern men here and in northern Colorado.

The statement was issued late Thursday afternoon. It says the FBI in Denver has "found no credible threats to military personnel or their family members in Colorado or Wyoming.

"The FBI continues to coordinate with its military and law enforcement partners to ensure the safety of our communities," the release continued. "The FBI asks the community to remain vigilant and report signs of suspicious activity to law enforcement."…

On this day in 1945 an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. 35,000 people were killed outright.…

If you’re one of those people who packs like a weekend warrior every time you head on a camping trip, you can blame the English language.

Those word-birthing Romans conquered half of Europe around the year zero and everywhere they went, they saw only open countryside: what they called campus.…

A NASA camera aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured a unique view of the moon as it moved in front of the sunlit side of Earth last month. The series of test images shows the fully illuminated “dark side” of the moon that is never visible from Earth.…

A suicide bomber killed at least 15 people in an attack on a mosque used by members of a local security force in southwest Saudi Arabia on Thursday, the interior ministry said, an assault that an online statement said was carried out by Islamic State.

The attacker struck as men were praying…

LAGOS, Nigeria – Nigerian troops rescued 178 people from Boko Haram in attacks that destroyed several camps of the Islamic extremists in the northeast of the country, an army statement said Sunday.

Spokesman Col. Tukur Gusau said that 101 of those freed are children, along with 67 women and 10 men.…

ISIS executes 19 girls for refusing to have sex with fighters as UN envoy reveals how sex slaves are 'peddled like barrels of petrol'…

Discussing the means that brought the War in the Pacific to an end…

…“The number of Muslims is expect to increase by 73% from 2010 to 2050.” That is from 1.6 billion to 2.8 billion. “Muslims will grow more than twice as fast as the entire world population” between those periods and “will likely surpass Christians as the world’s largest group.”… This is not genuinely a peaceful religion and their goal is undoubtedly to eventually give us all a choice; be Muslim or be dead. Hey, I guess it is a choice. …

Perhaps to the casual observer President Obama appears cool and in control – confident of his positions and the success of his “diplomacy.” But it doesn’t take an advanced degree in psychology to figure out that he’s worried – really, really worried – about what’s going to happen at the end of the day, when Congress votes on the Iran deal, and votes again after he vetoes the Congressional rejection of the accord.

He has never been one who was, shall we say, scrupulous in presenting matters with factual accuracy. But now he has moved so far from the truth that I hope even his supporters are saying, “Wait a minute, that’s not how it is.” Just possibly, in his attempt to paint a rosy picture he is overplaying his hand – distorting reality in a way that works against him. …

A priceless violin made in 1734 was returned Thursday to its rightful owner — 35 years after it was stolen.

The Stradivarius violin was swiped from renowned violinist Roman Totenberg in 1980 after a concert in Cambridge, Mass. Roman's daughter, NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg, said the thief was who her father always suspected: an aspiring violinist named Phillip Johnson.

"It had been in the same guilty hands all those years," Nina said.…

A Shreveport police officer was shot and killed answering a call at a home in the Queensborough neighborhood late Wednesday night.…

Richard Glossip, a man who is scheduled to be executed by the state next month.… Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon…

A new report says Oklahoma has seen an overall decline in its infant mortality rate in recent years… still remains above the national average… rate among black babies was almost twice that of white babies…

…On this day in 1819 Norwich University was founded in Vermont as the first private military school in the United States.…

Last night almost all of the major candidates were in NH for a really weird "candidate forum." The format involved a local moderator who asked some strange questions to each candidate in blocks of about 3-5 minutes before the candidate was kicked off and another came in before the seat could get cold. It turned out there were two rounds of this and candidates sat in the front row watching the others while they waited their turn.

It was...weird. …

An alert has been issued by the FBI to all law enforcement agencies in Colorado and Wyoming involving U.S. military families and concerns about who may be watching them.

The alert says Middle Eastern men are approaching families of U.S. military members at their homes in Colorado and Wyoming. It mentions Greeley, Colorado, and Cheyenne, Wyoming, as the specific areas.…

HATTIESBURG, Miss. — Camp Shelby was in a heightened state of alert Wednesday after authorities said a man matching the description of Tuesday's shooter fired shots near the military post for a second day.…

…Sutter found a lot of Oklahomans who disagreed with what 97 percent of climate scientists say is demonstrable fact: “Climate-warming trends over the past century are very likely due to human activities.”

In interviews with Sutter — who, in full disclosure, writes and produces videos for a CNN opinion section called “2 degrees” and is a personal friend — Woodward residents called human-caused climate change a “big fat lie” and “propaganda.”…

"The ayatollah constantly believed that we are untrustworthy, that you can't negotiate with us, that we will screw them," Kerry said. "This" — a congressional rejection — "will be the ultimate screwing."

Oklahoma comes very close to being a boxy nonentity on the national map. Thank goodness for the state's "panhandle," a 166-mile-long strip of land extending west toward New Mexico, which gives the state its familiar saucepan shape. But what's it doing there, this awkward strip of land just 34 miles wide, the only thing separating Texas from Kansas and Colorado? Like so much else in American history, the panhandle is a mark left by slavery.…

Oklahoma's standard license plates, which show an Apache warrior shooting an arrow into the sky, do not contain a religious message, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, rejecting the claim of a pastor who claimed the plates were an affront to his Christian beliefs.…

Texas Republican Senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz will make Bartlesville the target of his campaign with an event at Oklahoma Wesleyan University in mid-August… will be speaking in a joint event with Rep. Jim Bridenstine, R-Okla., from 4 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. Aug. 13 at the Lyon Fine Arts Center on the campus of OKWU…

Teams playing in the AABC Sandy Koufax World Series line up at Bill Doenges Memorial Stadium for opening ceremonies in downtown Bartlesville Wednesday. Larry Palmer sang the National Anthem…

John Chisolm will be talking on his study of breathwork and the alchemy of the Holy Breath. He attained a Master's degree in psychology and has maintained a counseling/healing practice for 45 years. …raised Catholic …converted to Methodism after marrying and presently studying the Gnostic Gospels starting with the Gospel of Mary Magdalene. …student of “A Course In Miracles” and The Urantia Book. …seeks to recognize the Divine Feminine as full partner to the Holy Masculine. He has come to believe that we are all endowed with the Christ seed and have the opportunity allow our individual expressions of Christhood to unfold.…

…CrowdMed founder Jared Heyman tells KRMG about 15,000 medical detectives help patients whose doctors can't give them a diagnosis.

"If you're a patient, and you've been suffering for months, or often years, with some kind of unresolved medical condition, and you've often seen several doctors and had all these tests run, and nobody can figure out what's going on, we provide a place where you can submit your case online," Heyman said.

"We've proven that using this crowdsourcing approach, we can solve many, many cases that individual doctors could not, and relatively quickly and inexpensively," he added.

He said there's been a "mixed reaction" from physicians.…

…Now, she is looking for a family to call her own.

“I’ve never been with a real family so I don’t know how one acts or is or anything,” she said.

She has lived in foster homes since 2010.

“I live with 16 girls,” Sarah said.

She wants to be adopted before she turns 18-years-old, and she hopes a family will show her how to love and be loved.

“I really don’t know because I don’t know how a true family is,” Sarah said.

If she had a choice, she says she’d like to have a brother or sister.…

Tulsa police arrested a naked man over the weekend after he was caught destroying a store’s bathroom. …stripped naked inside a Dollar General …started threatening customers …destroyed a wall in the bathroom and crawled out of it to leave. …appeared very agitated and seemed to be high on something. …

…honored "for courageous action and wounds received on Tarawa…

When light broke on an early morning last month, 94-year-old Herb Morris was flying again.

On this flight, however, the former military aviator was not at the controls but being honored as a special passenger on a plane headed for a daylong tour of veterans monuments and memorials in the nation’s capital.

The retired Air Force major joined more than 80 retired servicemen and women from across Oklahoma who flew from Tulsa to Washington, D.C., on June 9 as part of the nonprofit Honor Flight Network. Bartlesville residents Bonnie Clavijo, Duane Marquis, Hadwen Clayton, Harold Hawley and Charles Martin, and Dewey resident Lee Stone also took part in the trip.

Morris described the busy day as a “wonderful experience” and “very well organized.” …

…Paul died at 90 in 2005 and Marie at 93 in 2013, but their legacy includes 49 grandchildren and nearly 100 great-grandchildren, with more on the way. The bond between the brothers and sisters also continues because six of them still attend church and then eat breakfast together every Sunday.…

…On this day in 1914 the first electric traffic light was installed in Cleveland, OH…

An apparent Islamic State recruitment document found in Pakistan’s lawless tribal lands reveals that the extremist group has grand ambitions of building a new terrorist army in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and triggering a war in India to provoke an Armageddon-like “end of the world.”…

A 21-year-old mother in Queensland, Australia gave birth to Ella who was born without her left arm from the effects of Amniotic Band Syndrome. Ella is an otherwise healthy, adorable baby.

Ella’s mom saw a posting for a one-year-old abandoned dog named Snowy and emailed The Animal Welfare League asking if they could hold the dog for her at a rehoming center. She knew instantly that Snowy would be the perfect companion for her one-year-old daughter. You see, Snowy has only three legs.…

110-year-old New Jersey woman… Agnes Fenton of Englewood, New Jersey… credits Miller High Life and Johnnie Walker to her long life…

Fourth Avenue's farm-to-table vegetarian restaurant Food for Ascension Cafe closed up shop Aug. 1, the restaurant announced in a Facebook post. The cafe plans to reopen at their home base, the Avalon Gardens in Tumacacori.

"We discovered that there just is not enough understanding of the true meaning of 'slow food' to support what we were doing in the Café in Tucson to justify the time and energy we were putting into it," the post says…

So what’s up with the PEOPLE OF COLOR?! They can’t build great countries to which people want to immigrate?

Thirty fugitive or convicted criminal aliens were arrested in or around Oklahoma City, or around Guymon, during a four-day initiative that ended Sunday, and was conducted by local officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO). …

Harlem Suarez, 23, of Key West, Florida, has been charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction in the United States. …Suarez first came onto the FBI’s radar in April, after he posted “extremist rhetoric” and pro-ISIS messages on Facebook…

My 87-year-old black Dad called to say he wanted to congratulate me for my perseverance. “You finally have me and all your siblings (4) agreeing with you.”

My deep desire is to alert my son, daughter, and other non-political hard-working Americans of the moral, spiritual, and cultural evil threatening to overtake our great nation. No longer are we simply engaged in a battle of ideas -- Republican vs. Democrat, liberal vs. conservative. America's choice of governing has become far more daunting -- light vs. darkness, good vs. evil. “Choose ye this day, whom you will serve.”…

Boko Haram militants slit the throats of sixteen Christian fishermen on the shores of Lake Chad in the Nigerian state of Borno.…

The Cass County [Texas] Sheriff’s Office said the man told deputies he was shooting at an armadillo just before 3 a.m. Thursday when his bullet ricocheted off the animal and hit him in the head.…

Six people… stabbed at the annual Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade… by an ultra-Orthodox man who perpetrated a similar stabbing at the 2005 march. …released from prison several weeks ago after serving 10 years in prison for his last attack, which wounded three people.…

The governor of California [Jerry Moonbeam Commie Brown] …allowed parole for one of three men convicted in the 1976 kidnapping of 26 children and their school bus driver who were held captive in a buried trailer.… His brother, Richard Schoenfeld, was paroled in 2012.…

Today, a North Dakota law authorizing the farming, production, and sale of industrial hemp in the state goes into effect, nullifying in practice the federal prohibition on the same.&helliop;

…The publishing arm of Warner Music Group has claimed since the 1980s to have exclusive rights to the song's reproduction, distribution and public performances. But this week, the attorneys representing a film company that's suing Warner said they had uncovered proof that any copyright of the song would have expired about a century ago…

Graphic Showing What Happens To Person’s Body After Drinking Can Of Coca-Cola

The Atlantic writer Jeffrey Tayler is annoyed at the “educated elite” in our country. Why have they not risen to the occasion and labeled passionate religious belief a mental illness?

The writer’s disappointment followed the release of an article on The News Nerd entitled “American Psychological Association to Classify Belief in God as a Mental Illness.” In the story, Psychologist Dr. Lillian Andrews had stated: “The time for evolving into a modern society and classifying these archaic beliefs as a mental disorder has been long overdue.”

Yet the article, it turned out, was a hoax.

Alas for Mr. Tayler.…

An eight-year-old boy is the first pediatric recipient of a double hand transplant. When he was only two-years-old, a life threatening infection lead to the amputation of both hands and feet. He also received a kidney transplant from his mother.…

Spider-Man was created in 1962, but could his costume have been inspired by a child's Halloween costume from the 50's? … Steve Ditko [when asked] about the costume… “The burden of proof is on the person who makes the assertion, claim, charge. Some clippings, etc., are not rational proof of anything but some clippings, etc.”

……ejecting matter in the opposite direction? A drive that ignores the sacred Law of Conservation of Momentum? Hey, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet…

Janae Marie [Matt "Kroc" Kroczaleski] — the champion powerlifter who just came out as transgender — says she's he's still deciding whether she'll he'll continue to compete as a man or as a [man pretending to be a] woman ... because she's concerned about the backlash. ...

This is what feminism really is…

[Alex Winter (Bill S. Preston, Esquire):] "The fun thing about them is that they’re ageless. You play them in terms of who they are spiritually. Their mannerism and physicality are not tied to age. We played them like 9-year-old kids. They still have that quality. The comic potential of that becomes even better as it becomes more discordant. It will be funnier because they’re older."

Researchers created the lightweight, leaping robot after studying how pond-skimmer insects push off the water’s surface without sinking. …

…“She said, ‘You’re in the military?’ I said, ‘Yes,’ …She said, ‘I can’t serve you.’ … I asked, ‘Are you serious?’ She looked at me like she was offended…”

…And so it goes that commander-in-chief Barack Obama can once again lay claim to having achieved something that no previous president has — gapped the Persian Gulf of an American CVBG. Of course lots of folks will say what difference at this point does it make? It’s simple. We will not have a platform by which we can launch strikes against ISIS — not that they’ve been overly effective anyway, since we don’t have G-FACs (Ground Forward Air Controllers).…

…Ladies and gents, resulting from the text message I received yesterday, I can confirm that the United States Navy is bringing charges against Lt. Cmdr Timothy White for illegally discharging a firearm on federal property. … What kind of freaking idiots are in charge of our Armed Forces — pardon me, our “unArmed Forces”? What would they prefer that Abdulazeez had been able to kill all the Marines and Sailors at the Naval Support Reserve Center? …

…At a time when our borders are unsecured, at a time when we have sanctuary cities providing free operating zones for criminal illegal immigrants being released by our government, at a time when we have the domestic threat of militant Islamic jihadists and at a time when we are decimating our U.S. military capacity and capability, we must reject the notion of making America defenseless.

President Obama and the liberal progressive left must never forget the reason why Americans stood at Lexington Green and Concord Bridge. A tyrant wanted gun control – the answer was the “shot heard ‘round the world.”…

…"Sunday afternoon, the kids – my girls – were out on the back deck, and the neighbors were out in their yard… And they come in and said, 'Dad, there’s a drone out here, flying over everybody’s yard.'" … VanMeter has a 16-year-old daughter who lays out at their pool. … "I just think you should have privacy in your own backyard," she said. …

"I went and got my shotgun and I said, ‘I’m not going to do anything unless it’s directly over my property.’ … Within a minute or so, here it came… It was hovering over top of my property, and I shot it out of the sky." … It wasn't long before the drone's owners appeared. "Four guys came over to confront me about it, and I happened to be armed, so that changed their minds…"

…A Texas farmer finally received land back that was taken from him by a court and given to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) more than thirty years ago. The victory puts land back into his undisputed possession and control that has been in his family since 1904. It also brings hope and a pathway to victory for other farmers who stand to lose up to 90,000 acres of land to the BLM.…

Mitch McConnell is a disgrace and a sell out… but then again so is John Boehner. At least Harry Reid and Pelosi didn’t pretend to be conservative. The Republican leadership passes EVERYTHING Obama wants.

And when Ted Cruz calls out the lies— as usual, the progressive GOP RINOs attack Ted… as they do with ALL conservative members. They are annoyed that they just can’t annoit Jeb Bush and be done with it. …

Hayward CA mourned the death of a police warrior – who was killed in the line of duty. Scott Lunger… shot and killed during an early morning traffic stop Wednesday, July 22, 2015.

Sgt. Lunger’s sister sings National Anthem, Father’s speech, Brother Mike, Daughter Ashton. [Also] Josh "PPParrot" Earnest, CMP’s David Daleidan, Hillary's emails, Kerry grilled, Debbie struck dumb [and more]