Blog Heap of Links for the day 2 June 2016

…Japanese boy who was found after being lost in a bear-inhabited forest for six days… parents made him get out of their car as punishment for misbehaving, leaving him behind in a wooded area on Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island.…

President Barack Obama defended his decision to open up bathrooms to students of both sexes based on preference, citing his religious faith as a reason he decided to do it.

“My reading of scripture tells me that that [the] Golden Rule is pretty high up there in terms of my Christian belief,” he said during a town hall in Elkhart, Indiana.…

…U.S. Navy Blue Angels jet crashed Thursday afternoon in Smyrna, Tennessee… around 3 p.m. local time after taking off on a practice flight.… one person died in the crash…

…Between January 1950 and December 1951, Israel airlifted, bused, or otherwise smuggled out 119,788 Iraqi Jews — all but a few thousand. Within those two years, Iraq — to its national detriment — had excised one of its most commercially, industrially, and intellectually viable groups, a group that for 2,600 years had loyally seen the three provinces of Mesopotamia as their chosen place on earth. This dispossessed group, who arrived in Israel with nothing but their memories, rose to become some of the Jewish state’s most productive citizens.…

American Thinker: Anchors Away – Obama Sinks The U.S. Navy…
Everything About Clinton Appearances Is Staged And Scripted…
Mark Steyn: Trial Of The Century Update!…

I want to clear my spindle before it gets completely out of control. Here goes, a quick, down-and-dirty round-up:

President Trump?…
ACLU Director mugged by reality and other bathroom musings…
Taking our cavalier treatment of veterans to new lows…

Turkey recalls ambassador after German MPs' Armenian genocide vote…
Chinese minister vents anger when Canadian reporter asks about human rights…
US military eyes 'extremist Islamic movement' in Latin America…

A proposal for Germany to recognize the 1915 Armenian Genocide is being presented in the Bundestag tomorrow. Ahead of the vote, both Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened Germany with consequences if it recognizes the genocide. Neither Chancellor Merkel nor Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel will be present for the vote.

In other news, an Iraqi man who gained asylum in Austria by professing to be a homosexual has been jailed for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl in a swimming pool. There is no word on whether the man mistook the pre-pubescent girl for a boy.…

Against Historic Preservation…
Roger L. Simon’s new book on moral narcissism…
China: Seven empty Manhattans…

Bernie Sanders, authority on masculinity…
Felon? What difference does it make now?…
Free the nipples…

Massive Riot Outside San Jose Trump Rally, Socialists Attack, Assault Trump Supporters With Fists, Bottles, Eggs…

…“Donald Trump’s ideas aren’t just different — they are dangerously incoherent,” Clinton said.… declaring him “temperamentally unfit” to lead the most powerful nation in the world.…

…Hillary violently disagreed with a legal objection Foster raised and ridiculed him in front of his peers, say former FBI agents… 'Hillary put him down really, really bad in a pretty good-size meeting… She told him he would always be a little hick town lawyer who was obviously not ready for the big time…' Foster's behavior changed dramatically - he became withdrawn and preoccupied, and his sense of humor vanished…