Blog Heap of Links for the day 8 June 2016

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Wars and Rumors

…A waitress in a cafe in central Nice has filed a police complaint after she was allegedly assaulted by two men because she refused to “stop serving alcohol” on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan.…

Nothing to do with Islam, though…
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Citing The Telegraph
10:18pm CDT Wed 2016 Jun 8 :MW

At least four people were killed and five or more were seriously wounded in a suspected terrorist shooting attack in Tel Aviv’s Sarona Market, an upscale food and shopping center in the heart of central Tel Aviv.
Police confirmed that two attackers were arrested, one of whom was shot.…

9:20pm CDT Wed 2016 Jun 8 :MW

A new police report claims migrants in Germany committed or tried to commit some 69,000 crimes in the first quarter of 2016.…

Nothing to do with Islam, naturally.
2:51pm CDT Wed 2016 Jun 8 :MW

Muslim Migrants BURN 5 British teenagers with ACID, leaving one ‘BLINDED IN ONE EYE’ and 4 others horrifically injured as they waited for a train… Ockendon station, Essex…

2:40pm CDT Wed 2016 Jun 8 :MW

Sex can be Dangerous

Almost 10,000 British military personnel have contracted a sexually transmitted disease (STD) since 2012 and up to 100 have caught HIV, according to figures released by the Ministry of Defence (MoD).…

1:06am CDT Wed 2016 Jun 8 :MW

Communication Breakdown

Starting today, and continuing for the next month, the FAA has warned airplane pilots that GPS signals on on the West Coast, and especially over California and Nevada, may be impacted.

The reason why is not exactly clear, but as Gizmodo notes, the US military will be testing a device or devices that will potentially jam GPS signals for six hours each day.…

2:47pm CDT Wed 2016 Jun 8 :MW

Scary Times

…British police detonated a suspicious vehicle parked outside the entrance to the Israeli Embassy in London on Wednesday… Following the controlled explosion it turned out the ‘suspicious package’ was in fact personal belongings left in the back of the silver Volkswagen Passat…

9:16pm CDT Wed 2016 Jun 8 :MW

Scary Science

…In "The Human Genome Project—Write," the 25 co-authors announced their intention to synthesize a human genome from scratch. In layman's terms, they are saying that they are going to design a human being.… If you go all the way and try implanting it into a womb, you will learn a lot more about how your product performs, but at the risk of causing the woman to give birth to a baby with no parents—just a computer program. At the same time, the risk of deformities or other abnormalities in the baby thus created will be very great. So we have many of the moral issues associated with stem-cell research coming up with this project as well, only more so.…

11:31am CDT Wed 2016 Jun 8 :MW

Know the Enemy

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A Twitter user had his account locked yesterday after he used the notorious ‘#KillAllMen’ and ‘#KillAllWhitePeople’ hashtags. But he wasn’t punished for supporting the hashtags — he was punished for opposing them.…

2:49pm CDT Wed 2016 Jun 8 :MW

Bad Parents

A Tennessee man has been sentenced to life in prison for selling his three young daughters to a child pornographer and for years of sexual abuse in what the judge in the case said was one of the most horrific crimes he had ever seen.… children had been raped repeatedly by the 63-year-old father and were sexually exploited for at least two years… wife… was also sentenced in the case. She was given a 216-month sentence,…

Life in prison… can be short for some sickos.
10:21pm CDT Wed 2016 Jun 8 :MW

WW1 - still with us

"Somme," wrote a Prussian veteran afterwards. "The whole history of the world cannot contain a more ghastly word." The first day remains, by some measure, the worst in the history of the British Army: An almost unbelievable 19,200 men were killed.…

In the five months that followed, 400,000 British and Allied troops, and a similar number of Germans, lost their lives, without any noticeable gain or loss of territory.…

11:18am CDT Wed 2016 Jun 8 :MW
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People Die

Oklahoma’s oldest living person — a resident of Bartlesville — died on Monday evening. Mittie Dailey, 109, had called Heritage Villa Nursing Center “home” for nearly a decade.

Mittie Brown Dailey was born Oct. 1, 1906, in the Bobs Community, Indian Territory.…

Mittie Dailey was the matriarch of six living generations including one surviving daughter — plus more than 150 grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great grandchildren and great-great-great grandchildren.…

She loved riding horses. In 2010, when she turned 104 years old, her birthday wish was to ride a horse again and, with the help of Bluestem Therapeutic Riding, her wish came true.…

According to Dailey, her faith in God had sustained her all these years. “Stay with the Lord” was her fervent advice.…

9:12pm CDT Wed 2016 Jun 8 :MW

Man and Woman

Men and Women

A Texas BBQ restaurant has made their transgender bathroom policy abundantly clear — “No Men Allowed in Women’s Bathroom.” A cross-dressing cowboy truck driver has been stirring-up trouble in the Texas BBQ joint. The trucker likes to come in dressed in a skirt or hot pants and a blouse and six-inch stilettos.…

"Cowboy"? As in Brokeback Mountain, I guess.
11:12am CDT Wed 2016 Jun 8 :MW
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Oklahoma Law

Okla Flag

…Oklahoma Highway Patrol has a device that also allows them to seize money in your bank account or on prepaid cards.… If a trooper suspects you may have money tied to some type of crime, the highway patrol can scan any cards you have and seize the money.

"We're gonna look for different factors in the way that you're acting,” Oklahoma Highway Patrol Lt. John Vincent said. “We're gonna look for if there's a difference in your story. If there's someway that we can prove that you're falsifying information to us about your business."

Troopers insist this isn't just about seizing cash.…

Of course it's not just about seizing cash - it's also about authoritarianism and violation of rights.
11:26am CDT Wed 2016 Jun 8 :MW

Breitbart is Here

Proof Positive: Red Hillary…
Don Surber: This Is Why We Left Europe…
Mark Steyn: Man And Identity…

News and blog links
10:24pm CDT Wed 2016 Jun 8 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

Asaduzzaman Khan, the Home Minister of Bangladesh, said that Israel is behind the rash of killings of non-Muslims that has plagued his country for the past few months. He says that one of the opposition politicians met with a Mossad agent, and that there is an international conspiracy against Bangladesh.

In other news, Trey Gowdy (R-SC), the Chairman of the Select Committee on Benghazi, says that he has acquired new information “that will change how the public views what happened” in Benghazi on September 11, 2012.…

News headline links and summaries
10:14pm CDT Wed 2016 Jun 8 :MW

Utah High School Biology Test Asks Students if Mother Should Have an Abortion…
Nearly Half of D.C. Employers Said They Have Laid Off Workers, Reduced Hours Due to Minimum Wage Hikes…
The surprising strategy behind Hillary Clinton’s designer wardrobe…

News and info links
10:51am CDT Wed 2016 Jun 8 :MW

Iraq is pumping oil at record pace despite chaos…
Afghan Taliban seize dozens of hostages in Kunduz…
Ahead of Brexit vote, support for EU falls across Europe…

News headline links
10:45am CDT Wed 2016 Jun 8 :MW
Nightmouse

Michelle Obama Spews Her Best Racial Hate Speech at a Commencement Ceremony in NY…
Major Christian Church Calls All Whites Racist, ‘No Matter What’…
Google has a plan in case it builds an unstoppable killer Terminator robot…

News headline links and summaries
10:28am CDT Wed 2016 Jun 8 :MW

It doesn't appear Bernie will be riding off into the sunset, quietly…
Washington D.C. raises it's minimum wage to $15.00/HR…
Let it burn …

Headline linkage and a daily feel-good story
10:26am CDT Wed 2016 Jun 8 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1949 George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four was published. It was meant as a warning but instead has been used by liberals as a road map and instruction manual.

The Early Vic report late on the overnight thread again.
10:04am CDT Wed 2016 Jun 8 :MW

American Thinker: Trump and the Judge – Not About Race, But Rule Of Law…
Don Surber: Man Who Beheads Gays Decries Islamic Extremism…
This Ain’t Hell: Lieutenant Deshauna Barber, Miss USA…

News and blog links
1:05am CDT Wed 2016 Jun 8 :MW

US Election 2016

…The entire media — and most of the GOP — have spent 10 months telling us that Mexicans in the United States are going to HATE Trump for saying he’ll build a wall. Now they’re outraged that Trump thinks one Mexican hates him for saying he’ll build a wall.…

10:26pm CDT Wed 2016 Jun 8 :MW