Blog Heap of Links for the day 9 February 2016

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Disinformation Propaganda and Spin

On February 21, the Houston Chronicle claimed the passage of Campus Carry in Texas could hurt education at colleges and universities and quoted M.D. Anderson’s Julie Penne saying it could hurt “cancer research” as well.…

Talk about a stretch! Those who fear self-defense have no shame.
8:49pm CST Tue 2016 Feb 9 :MW

Know the Enemy

Turbaned O

If you seek to understand Barack Obama and his views, the best place to go is his speeches. But you have to read them in their entirety, not rely on hearing them or on the media’s summary of them. When you do, you realize how often what Obama says is morally and intellectually confused and even untrue.

The most recent example was his speech last week at a mosque in Baltimore. In addition to reassuring Muslim Americans that they are as American as Americans of every other faith — – a point that any president, Republican or Democrat, would and should make – President Obama spoke a lot of nonsense, some of it dangerous.…

8:11pm CST Tue 2016 Feb 9 :MW
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It came from the sky

• Blue space rock slammed into the ground at college in south India
• Bus driver, 40, injured by flying debris, and died on his way to hospital
• Scientists examined stone and crater, but have yet to determine origin
• Could be from outer space, a passing airplane or man-made satellite…

8:46pm CST Tue 2016 Feb 9 :MW

Modern Family Life

After the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) sent out a series of angry tweets during the Super Bowl, attacking with special animus a Doritos commercial for “humanizing the fetus,” the abortion group received a taste of its own medicine as a flurry of tweets on the group’s own account taunted NARAL while defending Frito-Lay.… “Humanizing”? Is it a lobster?…

8:53pm CST Tue 2016 Feb 9 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

The largest Islamic school in Australia may end up closing after losing its $20 million state subsidy. The government withdrew the school’s funding after it failed to disclose exactly what it used the money for, which is required by law.

In other news, during last year’s terror attack in Copenhagen, the Islamic terrorist had a Koran with him at the time of the murders, bookmarked to a chapter on how to deal with infidels. There’s no word on why the Danish police took almost a year to reveal this information. …

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9:13pm CST Tue 2016 Feb 9 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

Gates of Vienna News Feed 2/7/2016In Austria, the Interior Ministry official responsible for Immigration Police, Crisis Management and Civil Protection wrote a letter to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Vice President Kristalina Georgieva insisting that the EC pay member states’ expenses associated with housing migrants. Part of the letter was published in the Austrian daily Kurier.

In other news, a Pentecostal Christian pastor in India was arrested on charges of practicing black magic.…

News headline links and summaries
9:10pm CST Tue 2016 Feb 9 :MW
Geezer

…I'm sorry, no news this morning.…

10:08am CST Tue 2016 Feb 9 :MW

US Election 2016

…We’re going to have businesses that used to be in New Hampshire, that are now in Mexico, come back to New Hampshire. And, you can tell them to go (blank) themselves.

Trump never used the word f*ck in this speech.…

No, he didn't say it - he just mouthed it. Fox bleeped it to seem like he said it - but he might just as well have.

Stay classless, chump.

8:44pm CST Tue 2016 Feb 9 :MW

…Trump: She just said a terrible thing. You know what she said? Shout it out because I don’t want to…

Crowd member: Pussy!

Trump: I never expect to hear that from you again. She said – I never expect to hear that from you again – She said he’s a p*ssy. (crowd roars) That’s terrible terrible. That’s terrible!…

The old "I'm not saying, I'm just saying" ploy from the foulmouth.
8:40pm CST Tue 2016 Feb 9 :MW