Blog Heap of Links for the day 11 April 2016

Say, did you know that I am bought and paid for by the RNC?

Well, apparently I am. At least that’s what a lot of angry Trump supporters accuse me of on Facebook.

All I want to know is where the hell is my money?!…

A colonel belonging to North Korea’s spy agency recently defected to South Korea, the South announced on Monday. He is one of the highest-ranking North Korean military officers known to have defected to South Korea in recent decades.… arrived in South Korea last year. …North Korean diplomat stationed in an African country defected to the South last May.…

Robert Perry Hellem, age 89, passed peacefully on Wednesday, April 6, 2016 after suffering a stroke.
He and Barbara Claire (Sanborn) were grade school sweethearts. They married New Years Eve 1948 after he returned from Japan during WWII. He was born and raised in the Chicago, IL area, moving to Derby, KS in 1997 and to Bartlesville, OK in 2013.

Bob worked for Kraft Foods as a Packaging Engineer for 38 years. His idea of wrapping American Cheese in single slices changed the way we make sandwiches.…

…the BOSS Great Wall… a supercluster of galaxies over 1 billion light years across… largest structure observed in the universe so far.… named after the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey—an international effort to map galaxies and quasars in the early universe—and is like cosmic webbing.… made up of 830 separate galaxies that gravity has corralled into four superclusters, connected by massive filaments of hot gas… creates a twisting structure that resembles a cosmic honeycomb.… Lurking 4.5 to 6.5 billion lightyears away, the BOSS has an estimated mass 10,000 times greater than our own Milky Way…

Robert Bateman, Daily Beast: How the Longbow Ended Knights in Shining Armor

Historians love watershed moments, and few in military history in the West were as important as the battle of Crecy in 1346.…

A culture-enriching Labour councilor in Luton in the UK has been suspended by her party for tweeting that Adolf Hitler was the greatest man in history. Miss Aysegul Gurbuz also said that Iran should use its nuclear weapons to “wipe Israel off the map”.

In other news, migrants on the border between Greece and Macedonia stormed the border fence en masse in a coordinated effort, attempting to break it down. Macedonian police threw stun grenades and fired tear gas and rubber bullets at the rioters in an effort to keep them from breaking through.…

• Is wine good for you or is it not?
Should you even care?
• Lionfish: Eat an Invasive Species for Dinner
• Bullet indicates Lawrence of Arabia was no liar…

• Iranian Naval Deployment to Latin America Should Concern U.S.
• The New Eco Tyranny
• Minnesota Lawmaker Says Transgenders Are Bullies…

• Fireworks explode at temple in India more than 100 dead
• President Rationalization was on FNC with Chris Wallace
• You've got to be kidding me…

…On this day in 1951 the Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, was found on the site of the altar of Arbroath Abbey. It had been taken by Scottish nationalist students from its place in Westminster Abbey. …

…It isn’t so much that the system is corrupt, as Whinin’ Donald claims. It’s just that there is, in fact, a system that Trump never bothered to do the leg-work necessary to learn. Now he’s paying the price for that lack of knowledge, ground-game and campaign infrastructure.

But since Donald excels at the art of blaming everyone else for his failures, he puts on her his best Joan Crawford and kicks up a fuss.…