Blog Heap of Links for the day 4 April 2016

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Wars and Rumors

…I got a Quarter Pounder and Erica got some Crispy Chicken, BLT Burger (Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato) The crispy had some rectangular things like corn chips but her bacon was cold and sort of pale and watery. When she questioned it at the counter and said the bacon should be cooked and a bit crispy, she was informed that they now do the bacon in the microwave because if they put it on the grill it would contaminate the other meats and they would lose their HALAL (Islamic-approved) certification.…

4:30pm CDT Mon 2016 Apr 4 :MW
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Securing Our Borders

Border Patrol agent Chris Cabrera, who is a member of the National Border Patrol Council, which has endorsed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, stated that the border has “gotten less secure” in the last few years and agents are “lucky to catch 45% of what crosses” with “extremely porous large stretches of our border being left unsecured, unmanned”…

4:16pm CDT Mon 2016 Apr 4 :MW

Breitbart is Here

Blog and news headline links
4:24pm CDT Mon 2016 Apr 4 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

The theft of 7,000 pounds of copper from electric pylons at a water treatment plant in Italy almost left Rome without drinking water. If the plant had not switched to emergency generators, water service would have been suspended. After a police chase, four Albanians were arrested on suspicion of stealing the copper.

In other news, gunmen boarded a ship off the coast of Sabah in Borneo and abducted four Malaysian crew members. The identity of the kidnappers has not been established, but Islamic militants from Abu Sayyaf are the principal suspects.…

News headline links and summaries
4:11pm CDT Mon 2016 Apr 4 :MW

• Don't Find Your Self
• Insty says he Got Initiated Into the Skinny Bitch Collective
• 2,000 squats per day gave curvy twins four-foot butts…

Links… of various sorts
11:49am CDT Mon 2016 Apr 4 :MW

• Trump: ‘Only Global Warming I’m Worried about Is Nuclear Global Warming’
• ‘Stop Islam’: Message Written All Over College Campus
• ISIS plotting to assassinate European leader …

Headline news links
11:36am CDT Mon 2016 Apr 4 :MW

• Wow, GOP senators hanging tough on Garland nomination
• Another piece of missing flight MH370 debris found?
• Feds to build $1.75 billion intelligence center in St. Louis
• Amtrak collision kills 2…

These and more headline liinks
9:39am CDT Mon 2016 Apr 4 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1818 Congress adopted the flag of the United States as it exists now with 13 red and white stripes and one star for each state (then 20).

Heeeerrrre's Vic!
9:01am CDT Mon 2016 Apr 4 :MW

US Election 2016

…“Have you committed adultery in your marriage?” Kelly asked.

“I have not. That attack was complete and utter garbage. It was complete lies,” said Cruz in front of a crowd of supporters in Madison, Wisconsin.

“I have always been faithful to my wife. I love my wife. She is my best friend in the whole world.”…

4:14pm CDT Mon 2016 Apr 4 :MW

…Don’t run from your Democrat roots. Embrace them!…

Includes some funny posters.
12:38pm CDT Mon 2016 Apr 4 :MW

Sen. Ted Cruz scooped up another 18 of his preferred delegates on Saturday in North Dakota, bringing the 2016 Republican presidential candidate’s weekend delegate haul to a tentative 24.…

12:55am CDT Mon 2016 Apr 4 :MW