Blog Heap of Links for the day 1 July 2016

A Palestinian shot and murdered Michael “Miki” Mark, an Israeli father of 10, as he drove near Hebron. His wife and two of their children sustained injuries in the attack.…

Police locked in a shoot-out with gunmen who shout ‘Allahu Akbar’ as they take hostages including foreigners at restaurant in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka. Up to nine gunmen… reportedly holding around 20 people hostage…

On Thursday, the son of a Boston police captain was indicted on charges of plotting an attack on a college campus in support of the Islamic State.…

TEL AVIV – Palestinian terrorists have carried out four separate attacks in the past 32 hours, killing two Israelis, including a 13-year old girl murdered while she slept in her own bedroom, and wounding at least six others.

On Friday, an Israeli man was murdered and his wife was seriously injured when his car was sprayed with gunfire from a passing vehicle near Hebron on Route 60, a highway shared between Israelis and Palestinians. The man’s baby was reportedly injured and his 14-year old son was moderately wounded in the drive-by attack.…

The man said he was able to dodge the axe but was stabbed in the stomach, according to a prosecutors statement. His condition is not said to be serious. …told investigators the assailants shouted “Allahu Akbar”, meaning “God is greatest”, and called him an “infidel dog” before running away.…

…11:15 AM
Free lunch, medical marijuana, and bus ride to the Convention
Forms for Food Stamp enrollment and free cellphones distributed

1:30 PM
Group Voter Registration for Illegal Immigrants.
Fifteen different language interpreters to assist…

The Havana, Illinois police department says be careful on the bridge; it’s covered in bugs. …six inches deep… made of mayflies… has bogged cars and crashed motorcycles.…

A car crashed while traveling on the Autobahn in Germany after police say it slipped on slime produced by a group of snails.…

It will take another five centuries to clear the Somme battlefields before the area is safe, bomb disposal experts warned on Thursday after collecting 25 tons of munitions this year alone.… ‘We find all kinds of devices. The biggest to date was an eight hundred kilo, 15in British bomb at Thiepval… All the towns around here have been built on ground teeming with bombs.…"

[Churchill:] …..it was at Somme, the hinge of popular opinion on the nature of war changed and forever altered our perceptions of war.…

The Taiwanese navy accidentally fired an anti-ship missile in the direction of China Friday, killing the captain of a nearby fishing boat. …never crossed the midway line between Taiwan and China… slain fisherman was from Taiwan. The missile actually went through the boat without exploding, and three other crew members sustained only injuries.…

US authorities are investigating the first death potentially caused by self-driving technology. …driver of a Tesla car died in Florida in May… Model S car was unable to recognise “the white side of the tractor trailer against a brightly lit sky” that had driven across the car’s path.…

…a group of researchers digging through amber mined in Burma uncovered a sample with a pair of tiny bird-like wings frozen inside… At around 99 million years old, these wings are some of the most pristine fossilized feathers ever found.… Astonishingly, the amber preserved every minute detail of the wings. If you look closely enough, you can see traces of hair, feathers, bones, and how they were all arranged. Even the feathers’ color has survived the eons and is still visible.…

Roller coaster rescues rare for Oklahoma City firefighters

A CBS/New York Times poll finds that households reporting that they own a gun is down to 36 percent, what the Washington Post declares as a record low.…

Why Skipping College Was One of the Smartest Decisions of My Life…
99-Million-Year-Old Bird Wings Found Encased in Amber…
Energiewoopsie, Or, What Happens When You Dump Nuclear Power…

State Department Won’t Release Clinton Foundation Emails for 27 Months…
Mitt Romney: My Family Still Wants Me to Run…
Judge upholds voter citizenship checks…

Couple beats I.R.S.…
Freedom of speech under assault, yet again…
No cookie dough for you…

No news today folks. Just woke up. Up late, slept late.

Russia has softened its policy towards Turkey, and has lifted the ban that prevents Russian holidaymakers from taking charter flights to Turkish resorts. President Erdogan’s apology to President Putin evidently had the desired effect. Mr. Putin also offered his condolences to Turkey for Tuesday’s deadly terror attack on Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul.

In other news, according to economists, Germany may face a loss of 750,000 jobs if Chancellor Merkel does not conclude a free trade deal with the newly independent United Kingdom.…