Blog Heap of Links for the day 6 June 2016

It was the toughest mission of D-Day. Allied plans called for 225 Rangers, including Dog Company, to land on a tiny beach, scale the ten-story-high cliffs of Pointe du Hoc, France, under a torrent of enemy fire, and destroy the most dangerous gun battery threatening the American portion of the invasion.

It was a suicide mission.…

…There are so few surviving veterans. The National World War II Museum estimates that by 2036, there will be no living veterans out of the roughly 16 million who served from the United States.…

…Liberal Privilege.

Michelle and Barack take lavish, all-expense-paid vacations while lecturing Americans about having “skin in the game” and paying “their fair share.”

Ironic, isn’t it? Michelle pisses and moans about living in a mansion “built by slaves” but never once considers that she is living a charmed, royal life “built by Americans.” We pay for their mansion. We pay for their private jumbo-jet. We pay for their fancy vacations. We pay for their world travels. Our hard-earned money, our tax dollars, our labor, our sweat and toil.…

Nattaphon “Ice” Wangyot, a male-t0-female transgender athlete became the first trans student to compete for a high school state championship last week.

Wangyot, a senior at Haines High School in Alaska, beat a number of biologically female competitors to the finals at the state Track & Field meet in Anchorage. But her [sic] presence at the race was met with some criticism from her [sic] fellow runners.…

ISIS publicly burns alive 19 Kurdish women for rejecting sex slavery…
Bulgarian Civilian Vigilante Groups Hunting Migrants…
Generation Snowflake: how we train our kids to be censorious cry-babies…

Last night shots were fired at a Czech tourist bus on a highway in southeastern France. 75 Czech passengers were riding on the bus, and six were injured. The French authorities responded by stationing more police officers on bridges over the highway.

In other news, 78% of Swiss voters rejected a referendum proposal that would have provided every citizen with a guaranteed basic income.…

Elon Musk believes we are probably characters in some advanced civilization's video game…
Is your boyfriend a sociopath?…
Ex-Secret Service officer: Hillary lacks ‘integrity and temperament’ for presidency…

The New South Wales government, led by Premier Mike Baird, will give priority to “refugees” in hiring for new public service jobs in New South Wales. Mr. Baird’s decision comes in the wake of a statement by Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to the effect that refugees “would be taking Australian jobs” or “languish” on the dole. It’s not clear whether the government’s initiative is in response to widespread criticism of Mr. Dutton’s remarks.

In other news, Syrian government troops, assisted by Hezbollah and with Russian air support, stand poised to enter Raqqa Province, the heartland of the Islamic State, for the first time in two years.…

This Feels Less Like An Election and More Like the Establishment Of Religion…
Judicial Watch: DHS quietly shipping illegals away from the border and releasing them…
The next “green” plan: Have the feds seize coal plants and shut them down…

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton refused to say conclusively the Second Amendment is a constitutional right and that it “is subject to reasonable regulations.”…