Blog Heap of Links for the day 7 January 2016

On New Year’s Eve there were simultaneous attacks on women by large groups of “southern-looking” men in at least seven major German cities. Most of the news stories have been about Cologne, but similar events occurred n Stuttgart, Hamburg, Frankfurt, and other cities. …as if it had been planned in advance…A similar situation was reported in Helsinki, but the Finnish authorities were tipped in advance and managed to avoid the worst by arresting the ringleaders. Now we learn that the Groping Jihad also came to Austria. …

Feminism says women should never use words like "sorry" or "just" because those words undermine, and even sabotage, a woman's authority and makes her appear subservient to men.

So, to help women sound more sure of themselves, especially those in a male-dominated work environment, Cyrus Innovation offers a Gmail plug-in called "Just Not Sorry."…

Sexual savagery on the streets of Germany… American feminists, who have incited irrational hysteria over a non-existent “rape epidemic” on U.S. college campuses, will ignore this news. American feminists never said a word about the Rotherham Horror, in which English girls as young as 11 were pimped out by Muslim predators. American feminists don’t want to call attention to certain crimes committed by certain criminals, and it is not just Juanita Broaddrick’s rape accusation against Bill Clinton that feminists demand that we ignore. The feminist movement in the United States is controlled by the Democrat Party, and therefore rape is just a talking-point to them, an “issue” that feminists help Democrats exploit for partisan purposes. …

“Then we lost religious education for kids

“Our education was nationalized. I attended a very good public school.. The population was predominantly Catholic, so we had religion in our schools. The day we elected Hitler (March 13, 1938), I walked into my schoolroom to find the crucifix replaced by Hitler’s picture hanging next to a Nazi flag. Our teacher, a very devout woman, stood up and told the class we wouldn’t pray or have religion anymore. Instead, we sang ‘Deutschland, Deutschland, Uber Alles,’ and had physical education.…

They aired a nice little docudrama on why Communism sucks on PBS this week. It depicts how a group of Romanian entrepreneurs snuck Western movies into Ceausescu’s repressive nation and allowed the slaves of the state to see how well the rest of the world was living. …

Millennial supporters of Bernie Sanders are too young to remember what life looked like in the Soviet Union before the fall of communism there. If you know any young Sanders backers, share this video with them.…

A Chinese drone maker has revealed a giant quadcopter big enough to fit a passenger.…

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Psychological theory of the 70s was heavily influenced by Maslow and self-actualization theory. People believed that it was OK to get divorced for self-growth. It was OK for parents to leave families to pursue a dream of happiness.This is selfish, plain and simple.

It’s now-grown children like Gumbiner that we see on “Married at First Sight.” These 20- and 30-somethings may be professionally successful, but emotionally speaking, they are the walking wounded.…

Distrust, hostility, fear of commitment — if you’ve ever encountered one of these “walking wounded” victims of parental divorce, you know exactly what she’s talking about. …

Part I in a series of widely held beliefs that are either untrue or meaningless:

In every age, people say and believe things that aren't true but somehow become accepted as "conventional wisdom."

The statement "I'm not ready to get married" is a current example. …

I received "Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy?" by Gary Thomas, in print form. Also an audiobook called "Lasting Love", by Alistair Begg. Alistair Begg is a pastor of a church near Cleveland who I listen to frequently and enjoy immensely. …

… two small dogs took off on Tuesday morning after their owner was taken to the hospital… Officer Chris Bisceglia drove through the neighbourhood again a few hours later, looking for the dogs. … One of the dogs ran up to him, barking, and insisted that the officer follow him through a field to an embankment, where Bisceglia saw that the other dog had slid about 30 feet on the ice to the bottom of the slope and become tangled in undergrowth. …

…three and a half years after discovering that Ötzi was murdered, experts have now found discovered was suffering from a nasty stomach bug. It is this bug which has shed fascinating new light on the migration patterns of prehistoric man, showing that Europe’s first farmers are most likely to have come from the Middle East.…

A guy is driving around the back woods of Montana and he sees a sign in front of a broken down shanty-style house: ‘Talking Dog For Sale’…

On January 4, a 65-year-old grandmother in Manchester, New Hampshire, shot a man who followed her home from the gas station.… Grandma said, “Trying to literally take our guns away? It’ll never happen. He’s not going to take our guns away.”…

The German Social Democratic Party (SPD) is concerned about PEGIDA, AfD, and other far-right groups, and thinks they should be put under government surveillance. According to a paper issued in advance of an SPD conference in Berlin, anti-immigration groups need to be watched because of increased attacks on refugees and asylum centers.

In other news, the prime minister of Slovakia says that his country is sending 25 police officers to assist Macedonia with the policing of its borders.…

…On this day in 1959 The US recognized the government of Fidel Castro. The stupid State Department did not know he was a communist even though he was a known supporter of revolutionary left wing groups.…

…“They’ll pick a couple of people out of the audience that are like, you know, 100 percent. She’ll sit around a little plastic table, they’ll talk to the people for a while. It’s ridiculous,” Trump added. “And then she goes away for five or six days and you don’t see her. She goes to sleep.”

Neurologist Dr. Daniel Kassicieh, D.O., reviewed news reports of Clinton’s head injury in light of the recent information revealed from the security sources that are raising questions about her current health status.…