Blog Heap of Links for the day 14 June 2016

…Tuesday afternoon in Amarillo, Texas, a gunman entered a Walmart store, fired shots in the ceiling near the cash registers and took a manager and another employee hostage inside an office. As SWAT team members arrived on site, the suspect was killed and the hostages rescued. No other injuries have been reported.

Police have now identified the suspect as Mohammad Moghaddam, a former employee of the store.
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…I have learned in the past that it is best to refrain one's comments until all the investigations have been completed and the final report is made .... in this case there is a lot of information, and it is quite a sight to see how everyone is responding. So to begin .... I am just going to list a bunch of news links with a brief comment or two.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol had a news conference Monday to dispel rumors about the functionality of its card readers.

Oklahoma Department of Public Safety Commissioner Michael Thompson said since the Electronic Recovery and Access to Data (ERAD) machines were introduced a month ago, they have not been used to seize any funds.

“So, contrary to the propaganda that we're doing a swipe and seize and taking everyone's money, that's simply not true,” Thompson said.

Oklahoma Highway Patrol Chief Rick Adams emphasized that to use the card readers, troopers must have probable cause to scan anyone's card.…

Janet Waldo, whose career in entertainment stretched from motion pictures to radio to television to the world of cartoons, died this morning. The cause was a brain tumor and her age… well, no one's quite sure how old Janet was but she sure never looked or sounded it. … She appeared in more than two dozen movies but established herself in radio, mostly notably as the star of Meet Corliss Archer. Her most memorable role in television was probably the episode of I Love Lucy in which she played Peggy, a teenager with a crush on Ricky Ricardo.

In 1962, she spoke for Judy Jetson in the animated series, The Jetsons. It was her first cartoon but it launched an entire new career in that area, mainly working for Hanna-Barbera. She was Josie in Josie and the Pussycats, Penelope Pitstop in Wacky Races and The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, Granny Sweet in the Precious Pup cartoons and was heard in hundreds of other roles.… And as I said, I don't know how old she was. But I can tell you that well into her nineties, she could still sound like the teenage Judy Jetson. I think I'll just assume she was always that age.

FBI Director James Comey today defended his agency’s previous investigation of the Orlando nightclub shooter, saying there’s nothing agents “should have done differently” in their 2013 and ‘14 interviews with the gunman who killed 49 people in Sunday morning's massacre.…

Christians forced to hide their faith from abusive Muslim refugees…
The Media Is Spinning A False Narrative…
UK voters give 10-point lead to European Union exit…