Blog Heap of Links for the day 14 October 2015

Several Arab Gulf states are engaged in negotiations to purchase the Israeli-developed Iron Dome missile defense system in an attempt to ward off possible threats from Iran’s “growing arsenal of missiles…” Bahrain was the only state explicitly named in the report… [but] other members of the Gulf Cooperation Council would acquire the defense system…

So I'm really, really not one for reading self help books, but I have to say that I just tried the whole KonMari thing for my clothes, and it has literally changed my life. If you are overrun with clutter, which with 5 kids, I obviously was in spades, check out the crazy Japanese lady and her crazypants system.…

…The team believes the city they have discovered must be Sodom because evidence suggests it thrives on the banks of the river Jordan and was an important trade route, as described in the Bible.
Further evidence to support the claims is that Tall el-Hamaam was suddenly deserted at some point time towards the end of the middle Bronze Age. …

As we get closer to the actual primary voting which begins in February… Screen Shot 2015-10-11 at 7.26.53 PMthe GOPe (GOP establishment) and their partners in the media are becoming more and more shrill…. and more and more desperate. …

…On this day in 1656 Massachusetts enacted the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism made them regard the Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive. …