Blog Heap of Links for the day 19 July 2016

Afghan Teenager ‘Self-Radicalised’ Before Axe And Knife Attack On German Train

Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said notes suggesting self-radicalisation and a hand-painted flag of the Islamic State (IS) group were found in the 17-year-old asylum seeker’s room.

The IS group earlier claimed responsibility for the attack.…

July 18, 2016 – Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo has signed a bill legalizing the production and processing of industrial hemp for commercial purposes in the state, setting the foundation to nullify federal prohibition in practice.…

Groundbreaking radio telescope has discovered 1,300 galaxies in the sky
It discovered them in small area where only 70 had previously been spotted
South Africa's MeerKAT radio telescope will eventually boast 64 receptors
When it spotted the galaxies the system was only working at a quarter of its eventual capacity

True confession: I didn’t watch the convention last night. Mr. Bookworm, whose politics don’t align with mine, got to the TV first.

I did read about it, however, and I came away with the impression that it was a blessing that so many turncoat GOP operatives stayed away. Frankly, operatives are dull. Instead, this convention put up real people, with real concerns.…

Are Campus Bureaucrats Incapable of Respecting Free Speech?…
Muslims Were The Real Victims Of The Nice Terror Attack, The BBC Explains…
Erdogan Purges 20,000 As Europe Voices Concern Coup Was Staged With "Prepared Arrest Lists"…

Residents of an apartment building in Vienna called police when a man named Ismail S. went on a rampage, damaging objects. When he lunged at police with two large knives, an officer shot him dead. No motive for the attack has been determined.

In other news, citizens in Nice have built a makeshift “anti-shrine” out of stones and trash at the spot where the truck jihadi Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel was stopped and killed by police. Pedestrians stop and spit on the pile when they walk past.…

U.S. says hopes to raise in excess of $2 billion in aid for Iraq…
North Korea launches three more ballistic missiles…
49,000 kids dying of malnutrition linked to Boko Haram…

Michelle Malkin: Stop Playing Social Justice Warriors, Facebook!…
American Thinker: Obama’s Divide-And-Rule Presidency…
The Jawa Report: Fatwa This! Australopithecus Islamicus…

R.N.C. convention starts out as a Cluster…
R.N.C. convention finishes as a Cluster…
It's official, Debbie Wassermann Schultz is F*^@ Nuts…

…On this day in 1919 during Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen rioted and burned down Luton Town Hall in Luton, GB. I included this because over the past several weeks we have had a few discussions about the changes in England following WWI. This was one of the first major indicators that things were not going to go back to the way they were in the rigid class system.

Dilbert creator Scott Adams responded Tuesday to accusations that potential First Lady Melania Trump plagiarized her Republican National Convention speech Monday night from Michelle Obama’s 2008 speech at the Democratic National Convention.… “It could happen so easily that people would genuinely not know that they had plagiarized it.…"

…Placing Melania side-by-side along images of Michelle Obama is going to backfire all over these idiots…

…All of these speeches by potential first ladies are pretty cookie cutter in their message – working hard to get ahead and raising a beautiful family.

But I think the right are authentic and speaking from the heart and telling the truth when they talk about the hardscrabble life leading to prosperity if you have a virtuous plan and stick to it.

The left is faking it.…

…The fact is, you can go back and look at Laura Bush’s speech, Nancy Reagan, and even Hillary when she was first lady and find the same type of comments.…

…Michelle Obama stole her “values” in her 2008 speech from a 1992 Book by African Author Rob Marsh – “Business success in South Africa”…