Blog Heap of Links for the day 29 June 2016

Lost since the end of World War II in 1945, a tunnel dug by Jewish prisoners at Ponar (today Paneriai), near Vilnius, Lithuania, to escape from the Nazis was discovered recently using state-of-the-art mineral and oil exploration technology for underground predictive scanning.… For three months they clawed out a 35-meter-long burrow, using spoons and their bare hands. On the night of April 15, 1944 – the last night of Passover, 40 prisoners cut their leg shackles with a nail file, and crawled through the escape tunnel. Twenty-five of them were shot by the guards. Fifteen managed to cut the camp’s perimeter fence and escape into the Ponar forest. Eleven joined up with the partisan forces and survived the war.…

Senate Democrats are blocking a $1.1 billion Republican measure that would fund efforts to fight the Zika virus because it does not contain funding for Planned Parenthood.…

Oklahoma City Fire crews responded to Frontier City Wednesday afternoon, where a roller coaster got stuck.… Eight people got stuck…

Here are the five big takeaways from the U.S. House Select Committee on the Events Surrounding the 2012 Terrorist Attack in Benghazi, Libya, gleaned from a summary report by Reps. Jim Jordan, R-OH, and Mike Pompeo, R-KS.

1. Administration Misled Public Immediately and Continually…
2. Weak Benghazi Security Points to Clinton’s Political Considerations…
3. Military Never Sent Men or Machines to Help…
4. Terrorists Weren’t Brought to Justice…
5. Administration Obstructed Investigation…

At a conference for Muslims hosted by IslamNet a speaker questioned the audience as to whether killing people for adultery or just for allah in general is good and agreeable. The entire audience raised their hands in agreement. … The speaker also asked the audience “How many of you are normal Muslims, not radicals or extremists.” everyone raised their hands.…

…“The viewers truly feel they are there with Jesus and his disciples,” director David Hansen said in a statement. “This is the most powerful story of all time and virtual reality is the perfect way to tell it.”…

Two types of experimental Zika vaccines, a DNA vaccine and an inactivated virus vaccine, were each able to completely protect mice with one dose, researchers report Tuesday in Nature.…

…Esmeralda, a stray dog, was dropped off at Oklahoma City Animal Welfare… has four ears and teeth growing from one of them. At this point, they believe she may not be able to hear very well because of that deformity.…

…1. The court’s interpretation of “undue burden” is confusing as hell.

Today’s opinion does resemble Casey in one respect: After disregarding significant aspects of the Court’s prior jurisprudence, the majority applies the undue-burden standard in a way that will surely mystify lower courts for years to come.…

…which country should you live in if you’re looking to motorboat the biggest natural breasts possible? According to a recent study published in The Journal of Female Health Sciences, that prestigious award goes to the United Fuckin’ States of America…

…The pound lost nearly a tenth of its value against the dollar in a single day, and the UK’s FTSE 100 stock market index …plunged by nearly 9% the day following the vote to leave… The old adage that you should buy when everyone else is frightened held true. …less than week later …markets are already practically back to normal.…

A man with a concealed carry license stopped a shooter after the latter opened fire on a crowd of people at a nightclub in South Carolina early Sunday morning…

Michelle Malkin: Outsourcing Security Is Dumb And Deadly…
American Thinker: Good Riddance To George Will…
Mark Steyn: The Insecure Security Line…

What Does Sex Have to Do with Procreation?…
Reality doesn’t matter when you’re crusading for ‘social justice’…
Hezbollah confirms all financial support comes from Iran…

At least 36 people were killed when three suicide bombers attacked the Ataturk Airport in Istanbul with guns and explosives. The Islamic State has reportedly claimed responsibility for the attack. Most of the victims were Turks, but some were foreigners. The death toll is expected to rise.

In other news, more than 3,300 would-be migrants were rescued on Sunday by the Italian coast guard off the coast of Libya.…

BBC: Istanbul Ataturk airport attack: Deaths rise to 41, with 239 hurt…
Up to 4.8 million South Sudanese face severe food shortages…
Facebook's political influence under a microscope…

Silly Methodists pull prank at Istanbul Airport …
Petulant EU throwing temper tantrums…
Nigel Farge off of Obama's X-Mas card list…

…On this day in 1972 rhe Supreme Court issued a crap ruling based on a 5 justice ass pull in the case Furman v. Georgia that the death penalty violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, and constituted cruel and unusual punishment. None of the 5 liberal lawmakers on the bench could agree on why it was "bad". They just did not like the death penalty. Eventually all the States that wanted a death penalty came back with specific crimes that warranted the death penalty and it has been reinstated.…

…"Amid an ongoing investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of email and hours before the public release of the Benghazi report, US Attorney General Loretta Lynch met privately with former President Bill Clinton…" Neither Lynch nor Bill Clinton are dummies. They both know that such a private meeting creates the appearance of impropriety regardless of what was discussed. Bill Clinton’s wife is being investigated by the FBI — why do you think he dropped in for a chat with Lynch? Of course they didn’t discuss the case. They didn’t need to.…

The Japanese Supreme Court has upheld the government’s policy of maintaining a blanket surveillance of the Muslim community. The ruling was handed down in response to a lawsuit by Muslims who claimed the surveillance was discriminatory and unconstitutional.

In other news, in the wake of recent shootings of police in the suburbs of Paris, French beach police are going to arm themselves this summer. In addition to self-protection, the armed police will be better able to deal with potential terror attacks on beach resorts.…