Blog Heap of Links for the day 15 November 2015

Links in this view: 6
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Criminally Stupid

Authorities have arrested an Oklahoma man accused of kidnapping a woman and forcing her to fly a contraband-filled drone over the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. … drone caught on wire fencing and fell inside the prison walls where it was found with marijuana, two hacksaw blades, a cellphone, cigarettes, cigars, glue, methamphetamines and heroin. …digital card found inside the drone showed pictures of the suspect.…

9:27pm CST Sun 2015 Nov 15 :MW
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Feeding Ourselves

…Net farm income is forecast to be $58.3 billion in 2015, down 36 percent from 2014…

7:56am CST Sun 2015 Nov 15 :MW

Spiritual Matters

…recent Anglican Church of England… polling results showed that the majority of people surveyed believed Jesus was “not a real person.” …4,000 respondents where 57% identified themselves as Christians. Less than 10% of Christians read the Bible, prayed on a regular basis or went to church at least once a month.…

Don't believe Jesus was real but don't read the Bible. Hmm. No connection,I'm sure.
9:21pm CST Sun 2015 Nov 15 :MW

Anthropology

New evidence from a recently-published scientific study indicates that humans started crafting stone-tipped weapons 200,000 years earlier than previously believed. …previously attributed to Homo sapiens and Neanderthals around 300,000 years ago, but the new findings indicate that a shared ancestor between the two, Homo heidelbergensis, was practicing the craft 500,000 years ago.…

9:24pm CST Sun 2015 Nov 15 :MW
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Securing Our Borders

…Obama's "first load of 10,000 Syrian refugees arrived in the U.S., where they will be resettled into 180 unsuspecting U.S. communities.… Where are the Syrian refugees and/or the ISIS terrorists being relocated? The pathetic stooges at The New York Times were kind enough to publish a detailed map …

7:48am CST Sun 2015 Nov 15 :MW

Breitbart is Here

Geezer

…On this day in 1959 the murders of the Clutter Family in Holcomb, Kansas took place, which inspired Truman Capote's supposedly non-fiction book In Cold Blood.…

The Blog-Heaper has, too obviously, been slack at blogging of late. The world continues to rush by but various problems have kept me from doing this and many other things. Can't say if or when I'll return to the regular irregular blogging, but we (almost) always have Vic to inform us ofthe major stories of the day.
7:40am CST Sun 2015 Nov 15 :MW