Blog Heap of Links for the day 4 August 2015
Wars and Rumors
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.”…
Animal Companions
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.…
People Live
110-year-old New Jersey woman… Agnes Fenton of Englewood, New Jersey… credits Miller High Life and Johnnie Walker to her long life…
Business Wisdom
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…
Post-Racist World
So what’s up with the PEOPLE OF COLOR?! They can’t build great countries to which people want to immigrate?