Blog Heap of Links for the day 7 May 2016

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Obamanomics

The number of Americans not in the workforce during the month of April increased substantially compared to the previous month — again tipping over the 94 million mark…

12:26am CDT Sat 2016 May 7 :MW

The number of foreign-born people employed in the United States dipped slightly last month compared to the record high set in March, but remained above 25 million mark…

12:25am CDT Sat 2016 May 7 :MW
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Feeding Ourselves

…Whether dining with a 4 star general, toasting with a Medal of Honor recipient, or sitting with friends and family on Christmas Eve, an understanding of dining protocol makes time spent with others around a table more enjoyable. When you know the rules there is no awkwardness or questions about how things should be done; instead there is only opportunity to spend quality time with the company present.…

Article and video
11:45pm CDT Sat 2016 May 7 :MW

Animal Culture

Cat, Excited
Bluebird brings up lots of d'aawwww pix
12:35pm CDT Sat 2016 May 7 :MW

Prehistory - still with us

Experts have discovered a new geoglyph 30 meters (100 feet) long among the Nazca lines on an arid plateau in Peru that experts say depicts an imaginary animal with a long tongue. Archaeologists say the rock carving may date back 2,000 years.…

12:31am CDT Sat 2016 May 7 :MW

People Live

The oldest person in Oklahoma was born on October 1, 1906 in the town of Marrieta. This year Mittie Dailey will be 110 years old. … Dailey's family has six living generations.… Dailey said the secret to a long and happy life is God. "Her favorite saying is God is God and always will be God," said her daughter.…

9:44pm CDT Sat 2016 May 7 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Nice Deb candle

Bill Whittle… James Rosen… Ben Shapiro…

Videos, primarily political
9:18pm CDT Sat 2016 May 7 :MW

China bans 'erotic' banana-eating live streams…
Israel Shares Anti-Tunnel Tech With U.S.…
The Arab Implosion Continues…

News and info links
12:33pm CDT Sat 2016 May 7 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

An employee of the Federal Protective Service named Eulalio Tordil shot and killed his wife yesterday in the Maryland suburbs of Washington D.C. He shot additional people in a mall in Montgomery County today, and may have been responsible for two other shooting deaths. Mr. Tordil is now in police custody.

In other news, Geert Wilders, the leader of the Party for Freedom in the Netherlands, has announced that he will attend the Republican convention in Cleveland to support the candidacy of Donald Trump.…

News headline links and summaries
12:26pm CDT Sat 2016 May 7 :MW
Nightmouse

The Racist Trees of Our National Parks…
Six Parts of Hillary Clinton’s Plan to Disarm Citizens…
White House brags about how it tricked reporters…

News headline links
12:07pm CDT Sat 2016 May 7 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 558 in Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapsed. Justinian I immediately ordered that the dome be rebuilt.…

Vic's news and views get a morning thread this morning
8:32am CDT Sat 2016 May 7 :MW

Michelle Malkin: Hey, Silicon Valley – American STEM Workers Are Right HERE…
American Power: “When Traditional Religion Is Rejected, The Odds Are Pretty Good That Something Cultish Will Replace It”…
The Lonely Conservative: FNC Hosts Silent As Trump Spouts Conspiracy Theory About Cruz’ Dad And Lee Harvey Oswald…

News and opinion links
12:39am CDT Sat 2016 May 7 :MW

US Election 2016

…Many dismiss him as a bigot, buffoon, liar and misogynist. Others counter that he is honest, incorruptible (thanks to his wealth) and inspirational. If — as is almost inevitable — he faces Hillary Clinton in a final battle for the White House, it will surely live up to its advance billing as the ‘showdown of the century’.

No one — not even Trump, it is said — dreamed he would get this far. But the dazzling speed of his ascent has obscured the real story about a man who has been accused of raping his own wife, molesting and bullying women, fraternising with mafiosi and employing unscrupulous and racist dirty tricks in business.…

Not that anyone cares.
11:48pm CDT Sat 2016 May 7 :MW

…[T]he people have chosen Donald Trump. A man who mocks the handicapped, who considers free speech a disgrace, who triangulated a position so nonsensical on North Carolina’s bathroom law that no one knows what he means, who is a proven hypocrite on foreign workers and immigration, who wants to increase the lands owned by federal government rather than decreasing federal power and turning over the lands to the states, who has never asked anyone for forgiveness, most especially God, who only recently triangulated his position on gun rights when previously supporting an “assault weapons” ban, who supports abortion, who believes that Maryanne Trump Barry (who supports infanticide) would make a fine supreme court justice, who criticizes women for their appearance, who calls people disgusting because of pictures taken of them while they eat. and who believes in a single payer health care system.…

Quoting Herschel at Captain's Journal
11:39am CDT Sat 2016 May 7 :MW
Trump

…I get having somebody else do the actually writing up of a plan that appears on a candidate’s website. The difference here is clearly the other candidates had a great deal of input on what those policies would entail. Therefore, they were well-versed enough to successfully discuss, and more importantly, defend those policy positions.

To me, Trump’s lack of understanding of his own tax plan reveals a more significant failing than simply paying somebody else to do his homework for him. It reveals to me that of all these policy prescriptions outlined on Trump’s website, many of them aren’t his positions at all.…

11:36am CDT Sat 2016 May 7 :MW

…During the first hour of the Libertarian Party presidential forum that aired Friday night on the Fox Business Network, leading Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson admitted that in his view, Jewish bakers should be forced by government to bake wedding cakes for Nazis.… If this totalitarian dingbat gets the nomination, maybe we should try the Constitution Party.…

12:37am CDT Sat 2016 May 7 :MW
Crazyface

…read our full profiles of the candidates' positions related to Islamist extremism…

12:29am CDT Sat 2016 May 7 :MW