Blog Heap of Links for the day 12 April 2016

The government of Taiwan is alleging that Chinese officials have kidnapped eight of its nationals after a Kenyan court acquitted them of fraud.…

This is so sublime and funny - especially for those who have lived with Germans for years - I don't even know where to start.…

It appears that Trump supporters who have rallied behind Larry Wayne Lindsey have been schlonged.

Lindsey became an overnight sensation after the Trump Report Drudge Report highlighted a video of the wannabe Trump delegate burning his Republican party registration after pro-Cruz political insiders cast him aside. The trouble with Larry’s story is that it is a big fat lie.

Larry did not attend the county caucus, which is where he needed to go in order to get elected as a delegate to the state convention.…

Russian leader Vladimir Putin is accused of forming secret 'battle groups' in western countries including Germany ready to activate at a moment's notice.… army of sleepers is trained in the Russian "Systema" techniques of martial arts and knife fighting as taught to his country's special forces units. …reports of a western european intelligence service detailing the covert groups spread across the continent.…

Leftists Protesting A Farmer For Trying To Slaughter His Cow To Feed His Family… I have highlighted my favorite line from this story in red. Please read it and try NOT to laugh as I assure you, this is NOT A JOKE. They’re dead serious.… “He doesn’t need this cow to survive and feed his family. He puts a sob story on there. Please, tell him to go to Whole Foods and go get some anti-biotic free beef there,” she said.…

A class at the University of Oklahoma on human relations theory is being taught that singing R&B star Rihanna's songs is a "microaggression." “I was told as a white woman it’s insulting and a microaggression for me to cover or sing a Rihanna song because I’m not from Barbados…”

Calling the challenge “dubious,” a federal court Monday threw out a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union that sought to force a Catholic hospital system to provide abortions against the church’s teachings.…

Hilarious moment Southern mom SHOOTS her ‘disobedient’ children’s iPhones to smithereens…then pounds them with a sledgehammer to finish the job.…

…According to the Orange County Register, Skye Rabii and daughter Mia, 6, had just left a doctor’s office when they noticed a woman and her family asking for help retrieving nine ducklings that had fallen down a drainage pipe that was missing a cap.

The woman was able to retrieve one of the fuzzy ducklings, but her adult arms were unable to fit into the pipe to rescue the remaining eight — which is when Mia’s mom reminded her daughter that she always wanted to be a vet.…

Researchers at the University of Texas in Austin have developed an algae that could be effective in controlling the mosquito population.…

Late one night a man walked into a dentist’s office.…

…in embracing the incoherent vacuity of the contemporary “trans” movement, Mr. Kasich has demonstrated he is either suffering from an intellectual fog or that he’s morally confused.…

…Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin-Abdullah al-Sheikh told religious television channel Almajd that men with “weak spirits” and who are “obsessed with women” could cause female drivers harm.…

Newborn kitten found by Tulsa musician trapped inside of a trash bag at the Quarry Landfill

Campaigners on social media are encouraging Germans to place pork in the Halal sections of supermarkets, citing the unethical killing of animals. But although the activists say the campaign is about animal rights, others say it’s an attack on Muslims.…

…When you serve in the military, you inevitably collect a lot of memorabilia. By the time you separate or retire, you’ve basically got a closet full of military stuff.…

…It finally occurred to me that, when I save the JPGs or PNGs, I should include a keyword in the file name. That’s made things much easier. I’m therefore happy to present you with all the posters that have in their file names the words “stupid,” “Obama,” or “Hillary…”

According to the latest statistics, almost one third of the migrants residing now in Vienna are criminals. More than a third of those culture-enriching criminals are under 20 years old.

In other news, teachers at schools in Molenbeek and Schaerbeek in Brussels report that 90% of their pupils in the 16-17 age range consider the terrorists who committed the attacks in Brussels and Paris to be heroes.…

NPR: ‘When Is It OK To Profit From Cooking Other Cultures’ Food?”

Never, ever. Even at home. Even burgers and franks are evil cultural appropriations. There otta be laws.…

• The GOP delegate fight explained
• Here Are The GOP Delegate Totals As They Stand Today
• Women’s Firearms Training Includes More Than How to Shoot a Gun
• Campus rape culture: another chapter in the book of leftist lies…

• NLRB official does a no-no
• The AP seems surprised
• Wonder who paid them?
• Turkey can't handle a joke …

…On this day in 1831 soldiers marching on the Broughton Suspension Bridge in Manchester, England caused it to collapse. This caused royal Army to issue orders that when marching across a bridge to break step. That practice has also been adopted by the American military.

House Speaker Paul Ryan insisted Tuesday he would not accept the Republican nomination for president, and instructed GOP delegates to pick one of the candidates who has run for the job, though he did not exclude candidates who have dropped out.

"I do not want, nor will I accept the nomination for our party," Ryan said in an announcement at the Republican National Committee. "Count me out."…