Subscribe (RSS)Blog Heap of Links for the day 12 October 2015
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Wars and Rumors
Memphis, Tennessee, police officer has been shot and killed. The latest victim, Officer Terence Olridge, was killed on Sunday just outside his home.…
8:13pm CDT Mon 2015 Oct 12 :MW
MIRACULOUS! U.S. MEDIA MADE THE REFUGEE CRISIS GO AWAY!…The overflowing camps and the extremely large numbers of migrants continue to flow, along with chaos and disorder. All news of it has disappeared from the news.…
Turkish Police Tear Gas Mourners Laying Carnations At The Site Of Bombings In Ankara That Killed 97
9:55am CDT Mon 2015 Oct 12 :MW
WW2 - still with us
Pretty amazing footage. Having been to the Brandenburg Gate during the height of the Cold War, it is jarring to see someone driving easily from the British to the Soviet sector (the wall ran right by the Gate, with it just in the Soviet sector).…
[Video, 7:04, Berlin Channel, YouTube]
Civilization vs Gangsterism
Maps of Islamic activity, mosques and refugees paint a disturbing picture… Maps of Islamic activity, mosques and refugees paint a disturbing picture…
7:45pm CDT Mon 2015 Oct 12 :MW
Transport Disaster
“Worst car ever built,” is a phrase that gets flung around with the careless impunity of a toddler with a bag of superballs. Whatever you’ve once called the “worst car” is wrong. …
[Video, 4:06, Jalopnik, YouTube]
8:10pm CDT Mon 2015 Oct 12 :MW
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Animal Culture
Claudia collects some amazing pix of colorful critters.
9:57am CDT Mon 2015 Oct 12 :MW
Headline of the Day
…“Yesterday, we had our Bearded Villains photo shoot,” member Andreas Fransson and founder of ratemybeard.se wrote on Facebook. “In the middle of the shoot, two cops showed up, telling us they got a call from someone saying they drove past and saw about 30 terrorists waving an ISIS flag.”…
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Breitbart is Here
The “refugee” crisis boosted the vote tally for the anti-immigration Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) in today’s local elections. The party received 31% of the vote in the Viennese election, which was more than five points ahead of its previous showing, but still less than the 39% the Socialists scored.
In other news, a would-be car bomber detonated her vehicle at a checkpoint near Jerusalem when police demanded that she get out of her car. A policeman was badly burned by the explosion.…
News headline links and summaries (retro'd 10/13)
10:35pm CDT Mon 2015 Oct 12 :MW
News headline summaries and links
11:00am CDT Mon 2015 Oct 12 :MW
US Election 2016
…Chuck Todd asked Democrat presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) where he stands on allowing shooting victims to sue gun manufacturers. Sanders made it clear that he is opposed to holding gun store owners liable, but he believes there is room to hold manufacturers liable to some degree.…