Blog Heap of Links for the day 14 August 2015

…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.