Blog Heap of Links for the day 1 August 2015

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]