Blog Heap of Links for the day 20 May 2016

Terror group Islamic State beheads another Christian this time a priest in the conflict-torn Syria. The Catholic priest Father Yacob Boulos, was severely punished for offering prayers in his church. Media has remained silent over this incident as this incident actually took place on February 18, but nobody reported it unless it was brought out by an Italian newspaper.…

…That the Pope would equate Christianity’s missionary call with the jihad shows that he doesn’t understand either one, and probably won’t even when the jihadis come knocking on his door.…

Tulsa …left her four young children in an apartment alone Thursday morning so she could use meth … Maintenance workers discovered the children alone in an apartment littered with trash and food and called police… was given a five-year deferred sentence for child neglect in 2013…

…Because an individual state does not have the power to impeach a president, Oklahoma lawmakers are asking for members of the U.S. House of Representatives to file articles of impeachment against Obama, the U.S. attorney general, the U.S. secretary of education and other administration officials involved in the decision to let transgender students use bathroom corresponding to the gender with which they identify, not necessarily the gender listed on their birth certificates. The measure says "while the Oklahoma Legislature is fully supportive of providing a safe and nondiscriminatory environment for and protecting the privacy of all students, the policies, proscriptions and conditions set forth in the letter clearly and unequivocally exceeds the authority of the federal government."…

…Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT), Alphabet (GOOGL), Cisco Systems (CSCO) and Oracle (ORCL) are sitting on $504 billion, or 30%, of the $1.7 trillion in cash and cash equivalents held by U.S. non-financial companies in 2015…

…Off Oklahoma's beaten paths you'll find a mix of the odd and the interesting. Sometimes these unassuming places seem to lack explanation. … We tried it by driving to the starting point, which the locals have marked as "Start Here" with a smiling alien face spray-painted onto the pavement. Sure enough, when we put the car in neutral it began to roll backwards. From nearly every angle, on every side of the road, it appears the car was rolling uphill.…

Alan Young, the amiable comedic actor who became a TV icon in the early 1960s starring opposite a talking horse named Mister Ed, died Thursday. He was 96. …later career included doing the voices for Scrooge McDuck and other cartoon characters…

Whoopi Goldberg voiced her support of divorce as a good and important option for many Christians, since it is found “nowhere in the Bible”…

Christian officials have launched historic restoration work at the Tomb of Jesus inside the Church of Holy Sepulcher, site where tradition holds Jesus was crucified, buried and resurrected.
The works are the first in almost two centuries that will focus on repairing, reinforcing and conserving the structure.… Clerics from the three denominations that oversee the church — Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic and Armenian — shook hands in a show of unity next to scaffolding erected on Friday.…

FORT MYERS, Fla. …“A bunch of football players [maybe as many as 25] went into a room with a girl and had sex with her, and a bunch of the football players were suspended,” student Alex Bailey said. “So we might not have a football team this year.”…

…Target CEO Brian Cornell pegged the downturn in the company’s fortunes to the cold weather as opposed to anything the company itself is doing or not doing.…

In 2013, everyone agreed that Michael Turner saved the life of a teenaged girl who was attacked in a Pennsylvania Target store. Now, Target is suing him.…

A leading North Carolina newspaper [Charlotte Observer] issued an editorial last week telling girls to attempt “overcoming discomfort” at the sight of “male genitalia,” should transgender bathroom laws be enacted.…

…Just so we're clear, The White House just shot what they thought was a home intruder?
-Colion Noir (Twitter)…

Daily Mail: Tears for the victims of MS804: Dead pilots' fathers and fellow air crew gather to mourn the 66 killed in EgyptAir disaster – as search teams find severed arm, luggage and two-mile oil slick in the Med…

An “Australian” man named Mohammed Khan murdered and beheaded his workmate, one Syeid Alam, who was his fellow employee at a meat plant in Queensland. The incident has a Mohammed Coefficient of 100%.

In other news, criminal gangs among the migrants at refugee camps on the border between Greece and Macedonia have reportedly set up makeshift brothels in the camps, where access to the sex-workers costs as little as €5.…

The Thought Police in Canada…
Indians to Redskins name-change advocates: Get a life…
The overwhelming majority of serious violent crimes are committed by a tiny number of habitual offenders…

Da Tech Guy: The Little Sisters Stalemate…
Shark Tank: Rubio Wants To Hold Slumlords Responsible…
Don Surber: Clinton Meltdown Is Two Months Early…

Suck it up buttercups…
Enough is enough…
What a hoser, eh? …

…On this day in 1899 the first traffic ticket was issued in the US when New York City taxi driver Jacob German was arrested for speeding while driving 12 miles per hour on Lexington Street…

During the May 20 NRA Leadership Forum in Louisville, Kentucky, the NRA announced its endorsement of presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.…