Blog Heap of Links for the day 28 April 2016

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Constitutional Threat

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in 2015 decided not to deport but release 19,723 criminal illegal immigrants, including 208 convicted of murder, over 900 convicted of sex crimes and 12,307 of drunk driving…

Customs Lack-of-Enforcement, it seems.
6:38pm CDT Thu 2016 Apr 28 :MW

History - less with us

…Tulsa's only milkman is retiring. …has been delivering milk, eggs and lots of other stuff to Tulsans' refrigerators for 30 years.…

12:45pm CDT Thu 2016 Apr 28 :MW

Untied States

Tennessee Flag

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (April 28, 2016) – Yesterday, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam signed a resolution setting the stage for creation of state bullion depository, an important first step toward establishing gold and silver as money in the state.…

7:19pm CDT Thu 2016 Apr 28 :MW
Kansas Flag

[Kansas Governor Sam Brownback:] “Because the federal government has failed to provide adequate assurances regarding refugees it is settling in Kansas,” Brownback said in a statement, “we have no option but to end our cooperation with and participation in the federal refugee resettlement program.”…

But that decision [by Brownback] will have “no effect on the placement of refugees by the State Department in Kansas,” the federal Administration for Children and Families told Kansas officials earlier this month…

7:14pm CDT Thu 2016 Apr 28 :MW
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Spiritual Matters

The time is fast approaching in which there will be great trials and afflictions; perplexities and dissensions, both spiritual and temporal, will abound…

6:44pm CDT Thu 2016 Apr 28 :MW

It's All in Your Mind

Brain

• Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have produced detailed models of the brain's neural dictionary
• Although individual maps may be different, they are broadly similar, with similar regions accessed for similar words
• The detailed models show that networks of context-related words are grouped together all over the brain
• Such models could be used to make a 'language decoder' which could potentially be used to help people with communication disorders such as motor neuron disease and locked-in syndrome

6:32pm CDT Thu 2016 Apr 28 :MW

Policing Ourselves

Okla Flag

OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahomans whose assets are unjustly seized through the civil asset forfeiture process can recover their attorney fees under a new state law.

Gov. Mary Fallin on Thursday signed legislation passed by the House and Senate that allows for the recovery of attorney fees in forfeiture cases.…

7:17pm CDT Thu 2016 Apr 28 :MW
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US Military

…During a mock deployment at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho, just one of the $100 million Lockheed Martin LMT -0.04% F-35s was able to boot its software successfully and get itself airborne during an exercise designed to test the readiness of the F-35…

Quoting Clay Dillow, Fortune
7:07pm CDT Thu 2016 Apr 28 :MW

Breitbart is Here

Protein Wisdom: Scripps Students Say Hating White People Is Legitimate…
The Lonely Conservative: Boehner Thinks Cruz Is “Lucifer” But Trump’s A Great Pal…
Mark Steyn: Captain Quantum Says “I Got Nuttin'”…

News and info links
7:53pm CDT Thu 2016 Apr 28 :MW

Syria's army denies its warplanes targeted Aleppo hospital…
North Korea test-fires two intermediate-range missiles, both fail…
German nuclear plant hit by computer viruses…

News headline links
7:43pm CDT Thu 2016 Apr 28 :MW

Michelle Malkin: Never Believe A Hollywood Lib Threatening To Leave America…
Joe For America: Michelle Obama’s War On Religious Freedom…
Mark Steyn: Steyn Versus The Big Climate Enforcers…

News and info links
1:31pm CDT Thu 2016 Apr 28 :MW

Unifying Themes Behind Pseudoscience…
Believing In Two Genders Is A ‘Hate Crime’…
Latest Woman to Try Marines' Infantry Officer Course Drops after Hike…

News and info links
1:28pm CDT Thu 2016 Apr 28 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

A court ruling in Papua New Guinea has denied Australia the right to continue holding asylum seekers at the Manus Island detention center, and Prime Minister Peter O’Neill of PNG has promised to close the center. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is adamant that the detainees will not be allowed to enter Australia.

In other news, a Muslim husband and wife originally from Bangladesh were murdered in their home in San Jose, California. A mysterious and chilling message was left scrawled in ink on the floor next to their bodies*.…

News headline links and summaries

*Update: Their sons arrested.

1:22pm CDT Thu 2016 Apr 28 :MW

On surprise Iraq visit, Biden urging end to political crisis…
South Sudan war: US warns it could sanction leaders…
Paris terror suspect is ‘a little jerk,’ his lawyer says…

Headline news links (Selections above not necessarily representative)
1:09pm CDT Thu 2016 Apr 28 :MW

Emails Reveal The Brutal Backlash Against Mizzou…
ISIS Brainwashing Yazidi Boys to Kill Their Families…
Leftists Attack Police as Austria Prepares to Defend its Border …

News headline links
1:03pm CDT Thu 2016 Apr 28 :MW

…Come for the meals stay for the sadistic methods of killing…
…If Vlad's not happy, no one is happy…
…One more drink. NOT…

What does it all mean? Click the news links to find out!
7:20am CDT Thu 2016 Apr 28 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1945 Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci were executed by a firing squad consisting of members of the Italian resistance movement. Their bodies were then hung upside down from meat hooks at an Esso station in Milan.

Vic's news links and editorials, late on the Overnight thread
6:59am CDT Thu 2016 Apr 28 :MW

US Election 2016

…John Boehner… former House Speaker described the Texas Senator as "Lucifer in the flesh" … "miserable son of a bitch"…

Rep. Peter King of New York… said, "Maybe he gives Lucifer a bad name by comparing him to Ted Cruz.…"

Says a lot
7:57pm CDT Thu 2016 Apr 28 :MW

…Trump’s speech was fraught with “we never should have done this” and “I knew it was a mistake if we did that” type language. What it was short on was an actual foreign policy knowledge or understanding.…

7:04pm CDT Thu 2016 Apr 28 :MW

…Calling Cruz and Fiorina “the most loathsome pair in America,” Planned Parenthood’s statement reads like it was written by Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton…

Boxer especially hates Fiorina because Carly had the temerity to run against her in 2010.…

7:01pm CDT Thu 2016 Apr 28 :MW

Donald J. Trump’s foreign policy address was delivered with the aid of a teleprompter and written by his pro-Russian advisers. He took no questions. It was a replay of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s disastrous Russian “reset” that led to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Yet, Trump pretends to be an opponent of Mrs. Clinton’s foreign policy.

We clearly saw the influence of Trump’s pro-Russian advisers in the speech. There was absolutely no recognition of the Russian threat to Europe, including its invasion and occupation of Ukraine.

Even our media couldn’t ignore this blatant omission.…

6:55pm CDT Thu 2016 Apr 28 :MW

…Trump used a prepared speech and teleprompters yesterday. He mispronounced ‘Tasmania’ and stumbled left and right. He talked about reducing weapon stockpiles. He talked about not getting in further conflicts, but he would still defeat ISIS. That makes no sense. He chooses a slogan of ‘America First!’ that was a slogan in the 1930’s for the Nazis in America to keep us from fighting the Germans. No one knows how to use Google in the Trump camp evidently. He also talks about the Cold War ending… it never did… it shifted. Trump’s speech was a disaster all in itself.…

6:52pm CDT Thu 2016 Apr 28 :MW

GREATEST FOREIGN POLICY SPEECH SINCE WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL ADDRESS.
— Ann Coulter

Um… that's one opinion.
6:36pm CDT Thu 2016 Apr 28 :MW