Blog Heap of Links for the day 5 April 2016

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Wars and Rumors

…“The bones of Christian saints rested in peace for hundreds of years , before Islamic State came to the monastery of Saint Elian”, reported Lindsey Hilsum, who was in the town reporting for Channel Four.

Other bones appear alongside broken blocks bearing Christian crosses and piles of rubble remain scattered across the religious site, one mile from Al-Qaryatain town centre.…

10:51pm CDT Tue 2016 Apr 5 :MW

Islamic State militants attacked Syrian army troops with mustard gas in an offensive against a Syrian military airport in the eastern province of Deir al-Zor that borders Iraq…

May the winds of fate blow their chemicals back upon them.
9:10am CDT Tue 2016 Apr 5 :MW

Big Brother

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Ever wondered what information Google is holding about you? Here's how to find - and edit - your account information and personal data…

Not that editing your data will actually cause Google to "forget" it!
9:01am CDT Tue 2016 Apr 5 :MW

Disinformation Propaganda and Spin

…No one has any idea what you’re wigging out about in these bizarre, violent rants against me, but you’re obviously not exercising enough intelligence to acknowledge you’ve been sucked into believing some fake interview in which I supposedly offered comments representing the antithesis of my truth…

10:49pm CDT Tue 2016 Apr 5 :MW

Nature can be Deadly

Twisting Twister
Man seriously injured, wife killed as he films tornado. Video: 4:04
11:11pm CDT Tue 2016 Apr 5 :MW

Untied States

Mississippi’s governor signed a law Tuesday that allows religious groups and some private businesses to refuse service to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people based on religious beliefs.…

11:19pm CDT Tue 2016 Apr 5 :MW
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Fire

…Areas of Freedom in Woods County [Oklahoma] are also being evacuated due to the fire burning southwest of the town. The fire is moving northeast.…

Yes, God bless 'em, there is Freedom, Oklahoma.
10:42pm CDT Tue 2016 Apr 5 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Blog and headline links
10:46pm CDT Tue 2016 Apr 5 :MW

• Ivana Trump: We need immigrants to clean for us…

News headline links and a few bits of commentary
10:42am CDT Tue 2016 Apr 5 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

Greek government officials are concerned about the legal delays that have prevented the construction of a mosque in Athens. It is feared that the absence of a mosque in the Greek capital could encourage the spread of Islamic extremism.

In other news, violence broke out at the border crossing between Italy and Austria in the Brenner Pass, where pro-immigrant demonstrators gathered to protest the new border controls imposed by Austria. Activists among the protesters threw stones and flares at the Austrian police, injuring five of them.…

News headline links and summaries.
10:36am CDT Tue 2016 Apr 5 :MW

• Prof.: chanting ‘all lives matter’ is ‘covert’ white racism
• Larry The Cable Guy Explains Why The Media Hates Working Class
• Row in Canada over where the 25,000 newly admitted Syrians came from…

News headline links
8:57am CDT Tue 2016 Apr 5 :MW

• Economically $15/HR minimum wage doesn't make sense, let's put it into law anyway
• Biz executives favor raising minimum wage
• Apparently the TSA believes that money grows on trees…

Today's batch of mysterious references to the news
8:16am CDT Tue 2016 Apr 5 :MW

US Election 2016

Links to results
11:17pm CDT Tue 2016 Apr 5 :MW

The vitamin scam, The Art of Seduction, and Rick Santorum: How I finally understood the Trump phenomenon.…

11:14pm CDT Tue 2016 Apr 5 :MW
Ted Cruz

The board of directors at National Right to Life (NRL) says it is backing Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for the Republican nomination for president.… “National Right to Life believes Sen. Cruz is the only candidate for president who has always been pro-life, who has a 100% pro-life voting record with National Right to Life, who can win the Republican nomination, and who can defeat pro-abortion Hillary Clinton in November,” NRL News reports..…

10:43pm CDT Tue 2016 Apr 5 :MW
Abe Lincoln

Donald Trump made the most absolutely stupendously stupid statement about what made Lincoln successful that there is no explanation other than he doesn’t have a damn clue what Lincoln did or who he was or what made him great other than a nebulous notion that “he’s great.”…

Didn't even read the Cliff Notes
2:05pm CDT Tue 2016 Apr 5 :MW