Blog Heap of Links for the day 13 December 2015

…Two more Walmarts reported bulk cell phone purchases by Friday night. …A picture from a Missouri trail camera is spreading like wildfire in Mid-Missouri.… man was reportedly acting erratically.… “He came out of the woods, screaming arms wailing, making a fist just screaming…”

Thousands of shoppers were evacuated from malls in at least three states on Saturday as bomb threats or scares disrupted one of the busiest days of year for holiday shopping.… Florida… New Jersey… New Mexico… no bombs were found…

A mosque located in Richardson, Texas, was named a co-conspirator in the biggest terrorism financing trial in United States history. The mosque, also known as Dallas Central Mosque, was set up from its development to fund the terrorist organization, Hamas, and terrorist activities. …

WAYNESVILLE, Mo. (AP) - Pulaski County authorities say a deer hunter found a cache of explosives along a trail in the Mark Twain National Forest. … the explosives were detonated at the site because they were too volatile to move. … Police described the explosives as something that could not be bought for recreational use. …

Students were evacuated at Warren Central Junior High in Vicksburg, Mississippi Wednesday after a student informed authorities that another student brought a "homemade IED" to school in a backpack. … Police Department bomb squad … said had it gone off inside the school, it would have caused "little to no damage." …two students had been detained, one of them aged 13. No other information about the students have been released. It is noted that the kid with the bomb also had several knifes on him…

Santa Claus is banned. The Pledge of Allegiance is no longer recited. “Harvest festival” has replaced Thanksgiving, and “winter celebrations” substitute for Christmas parties.

New principal Eujin Jaela Kim has given PS 169 in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, a politically correct scrub-down, to the dismay of teachers and parents.…

In front of a capacity crowd of more than 450 students, an Otay Ranch High School administrator dismissed students from conservative powerhouse Ben Shapiro’s speech… After Shapiro explained the power of America’s free market system, noting it could lift anybody out of poverty if they’re able to manage their money, an administrator seized the microphone… and said he was going to have to “dismiss the students” because Shapiro had “crossed a line.”…

…But the White House chose Susan Talve to light the Menorah. Talve is a member of the anti-Israel group T'ruah which is currently promoting assorted "soft BDS" programs. She's also a Ferguson activist. Her behavior was deeply insulting to the religious Jewish community and made it clear that the White House was determined to hijack even a Chanukah party to promote an anti-Jewish agenda.…

…Two culture-enrichers have been arrested in Geneva on suspicion of “transporting explosives and toxic gases”. The two men, reportedly Syrians, may also be charged with supporting a terrorist organization.

In other news, thousands of migrants who were stranded in Greece when Macedonia closed its borders to them have been transported back to Athens, where they are being housed in former Olympic sports stadiums, among other places.…

…On this day in 2006 the UN approved the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The Senate failed to ratify this treaty. As I recall the argument was we already have this in the US and all this was was a lawyer payme bill.

…In honor of my friend @realDonaldTrump and good-hearted #Maniacs everywhere: https://t.co/KOPIi4XTVt

— Ted Cruz…

…On “Fox News Sunday” this weekend, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said his opponent Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is not “qualified to be president” because he is “a bit of a maniac.”…