Blog Heap of Links for the day 24 May 2016

…Here’s something you might want to jump on: a recipe for a 5,000-year-old Chinese beer, made from tubers, millet, barley, and a gluten-free something called Job’s tears.…

Facebook could be tapping into not just users personal information, interests, and online habits but also your private conversations… Facebook admits that it “uses your microphone to identify the things you’re listening to or watching, based on the music and TV matches we’re able to identify.” …some experts believe …Once the microphone feature is enabled, Facebook can listen in to your private conversation, even when one is not actively engaging with the app.…

…Without appropriate password protection, many people are unwittingly providing a live feed of their daily lives even within the walls of their own homes.…

When the U.S. House Judiciary Committee meets Tuesday to address allegations involving Internal Revenue Service chief John Koskinen, it is also expected to consider taking an action that hasn’t happened in nearly 150 years — impeachment.…

Kelly Hoggan, Head of Security was relived of his position by TSA Administrator Peter Neffenger after the House Oversight Committee sharply criticized the agency.

The final straw was the long lines of passengers waiting up to three hours to be screened at O’Hara recently.…

…McCartney also addressed the reason for the split, saying, "The business thing split us apart," referring to a new manager and new business practices for the release of "Let It Be," the band's final record together.

After the breakup, McCartney added, he wasn't sure "whether I was still going to continue in music."…

For patients with a deadly skin cancer who previously had few treatment options, a drug that will boost their immune systems has shown great promise.

After 655 patients with advanced melanoma received the drug pembrolizumab, a new study showed 15% of people in the trial had no sign of cancer three years later, achieving total remission.…

Before it was demolished in 1994, Kowloon Walled City was regarded as the most densely populated place on earth… About 33,000 people lived in the overcrowded slum in Hong Kong, where crime was accepted as part of daily life… The six-acre settlement was essentially lawless due to a territorial dispute between China and British Hong Kong…

…The most offensive part of the new policy is that, under the Obama administration’s federal guidance:

School districts must allow biological males and females to spend the night together in the same hotel room on field trips;
Colleges must let men who say they are transgender be roommates with one or more women; and
School officials cannot even tell those young women or their parents in advance that their new roommate is a man, without risking a federal lawsuit.

The plain wording of the Obama administration’s diktat is clear enough, yet it has not been reported, even by conservative news outlets.…

A “transmasculine” teacher at an Oregon elementary school has been awarded $60,000 by her school district as compensation for harassment she claims to have suffered on the job, including being referred to by the wrong pronoun.…

Here are 417 incidents which have happened as recorded by This Ain’t Hell since January 1st, 2016 – that’s an average of 2.8 incidences every day so far this year that a lawful gun owner defend themselves or their families from a criminal…

Atheist activist Patrick Greene lost his lawsuit today against Abundant Life Fellowship Church in Corpus Christi, Texas… admitting that his lawsuit was “baseless,” and submitting to a court order never to bring such a frivolous lawsuit in the future. …Pastor Rick Milby started building a 230-foot cross on his church’s property. Greene’s lawsuit claims that a church’s erecting of a cross on private property is unconstitutional because a local mayor and city council members attended the church’s groundbreaking ceremony.…

Milo Yiannopoulos’ event at DePaul University had to be cut short Tuesday night after protesters stormed the stage, blew whistles, grabbed the microphone out of the interviewer’s hand, and threatened to punch Yiannopoulos in the face.…

I’ve switched migraine medicines and have been a little limp and dazed, but the migraines are passing and my energy is returning — so what better thing to do than write a round-up?…

Twitchy: WaPo Reporter And “Nasty Guy” Shames Trump Into Ponying Up For Vets…
Pamela Geller: Christians Ordered To Keep Faith Quiet – By Archbishop Of Canterbury…
The Quinton Report: Wonder Woman Based On Margaret Sanger…

Smoke was detected and reported by automatic sensors on EgyptAir Flight 804 last Thursday in the minutes before it crashed into the Mediterranean. The smoke was reported in several locations, including the toilets.

In other news, thousands of Italians gathered for an anti-immigration rally in Rome over the weekend.…

ISIS Now Feeding Commanders to Dogs as Punishment for Failures…
The real prize and threat of the driverless car revolution is data: ‘The car knows a lot about you’…
The Huffington Post Is What Happens When There’s No Men In The Room…

Iraq forces keep up shelling of Falluja, U.N. concern mounts for civilians…
Islamic State is reportedly rounding up civilians to use as human shields in Fallujah…
Facebook to revamp Trending Topics…

Money: Can Anything Stop Vanguard?…
The wolf is making a comeback in Germany.…
A drug that lowers cholesterol does not save lives…
'The First American Declaration of Independence?: The Disputed History of the Mecklenburg Declaration of May 20, 1775'…

IRS creep chief refuses to attend his impeachment hearing…
VA Governor under scrutiny…
Austrian conservative candidate loses Austrian presidency…
More Gitmo detainees to be on the loose…

…On this date in 1994 the four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 were each sentenced to 240 years in prison. Later in a bizarre legal ruling even though this was a deliberate terrorist act, the NY Port authority was held legally liable for the bombing due to stupid NY tort laws.…