Blog Heap o'Links for August 2016

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Wars and Rumors

Islam in the West: Priests told ‘don’t wear collars in public’ over fears jihadis are planning attacks… This is the state of freedom in the West. But remember — Obama, Hillary and their attendant running dogs in the enemedia demand you repeat the daily mantra, “this has nothing to do with religion.”…

3:15pm CDT Wed 2016 Aug 31 :MW

Two men who attacked a young couple for eating a pizza topped with ham have been sentenced to 18 months in prison. …victims left …a nightclub in Cambrésis, France… ordered pizza from a nearby food vendor… were approached by Boussaid and Bouzid… who offered the young couple cocaine. …Noticing ham on the pizza, the two Arabs told the pair they would “go to hell” for eating it. Islam forbids the consumption of meat from pigs.…

No ham, but coke is okay - cultural diversity in action
1:41pm CDT Wed 2016 Aug 31 :MW
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Energy

The Oklahoma Corporation Commission released a statement Tuesday that Magellan Midstream Partners has issued a recall on gasoline containing high levels of ethanol.…

Any amount jof ethanol is unacceptably high
11:18am CDT Wed 2016 Aug 31 :MW

Educating Ourselves

Dr Everett Piper

The school year has started and the “snowflake” rebellion of 2015 is anything but dead. Micro-aggressions, trigger warnings, and demands for “safe spaces” continue to dominate the campus news from coast to coast. As the university president who wrote the viral “This is Not a Day Care” op-ed, I have been called by the media in recent days with essentially this question: “Dr. Piper, okay – your “Not a Day Care” piece identified the problem, but what’s the solution?”

Here’s my answer…

11:20am CDT Wed 2016 Aug 31 :MW

Mystery

In 1902, a person identified only as "a learned correspondent in West Hackney" brought to the attention of the world a curious fact about Psalm 46 of the King James Version of the Bible. The name "Shakespeare" seems to be coded into it.…

Old news, but now blog-heap bookmarked
1:31pm CDT Wed 2016 Aug 31 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Brazil's Senate dismisses Rousseff for breaking budget laws…
North Korea executes top official, banishes 2 others…
Cocaine 'worth €50m' discovered at Coca-Cola plant…

News headline links
3:19pm CDT Wed 2016 Aug 31 :MW

How Central Park's lampposts can keep you from getting lost…
George Soros is a brilliant mastermind, the closest thing to a real-life Bond villain in human history…
Finland will try Free Money…

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12:08pm CDT Wed 2016 Aug 31 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is now facing a possible revolt from the CSU, the CDU’s sister party in Bavaria. The CSU is reportedly considering proposing a different party leader ahead of next year’s election, and may even break away entirely from the CDU.

In other news, on Monday more than 6,500 migrants in a number of different boats were rescued off the coast of Libya by the Italian coast guard.…

News summaries with links
12:04pm CDT Wed 2016 Aug 31 :MW
Nightmouse

Dozens of Hillary Clinton Emails About Benghazi Found in 15,000 Messages She Kept from FBI…
Vermont college hands out ‘pronoun pins’ to incoming freshmen…
9/11, Eid, NFL: 911 Anniversary falls on Eid al-Adha, Muslim Holy Day and NFL opening Sunday…

News summaries with links
11:45am CDT Wed 2016 Aug 31 :MW

Da Tech Guy: Trump’s Focus On Chicago Violence A Good Thing…
Joe For America: KKK Grand Dragon Endorses Hillary Clinton…
Shot In The Dark: The Dog Ate The Entire Mainstream Media’s Homework…

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11:26am CDT Wed 2016 Aug 31 :MW

The I.R.S. types, deletes, types, deletes…
We should all sleep better at night…
Hey, it's only money…

Those LIV who read no deeper than the headlines would be perpetually lost with these links
10:49am CDT Wed 2016 Aug 31 :MW
Geezer

…The traditional last day of summer for the met folks and one we all dreaded as yoots, schools would be coming the next week. Of course now, they have already started school here. On this day in 1897 Thomas Edison patented the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector and eventually created a whole new entertainment industry.…

Vic dredges up the news and serves it with spicy garnish
10:17am CDT Wed 2016 Aug 31 :MW

US Election 2016

Citing so-called security concerns, the Department of Homeland Security is considering a special declaration to take control of the 2016 presidential elections.

Recent concerns over hacking and potential compromises to polling stations and ballots around the country are apparently what have prompted the department's consideration.

DHS could declare the presidential campaign as part of the country's "critical infrastructure," thus justifying a take-over of the process.…

Nothing to see here, folks, move along, move along.
1:34pm CDT Wed 2016 Aug 31 :MW
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Wars and Rumors

Allen West

…We’ve shared with you previously the lethality of the S-300 surface to air missile system, as well as provided an assessment of how Iran would employ them. Sadly, it appears we were correct. We’ve covered how the head of the Iranian Quds Force, another designated terrorist group, General Sulemani, and has illegally traveled to Russia. It would appear that lifting economic sanctions and the new found financial boon for Iran, courtesy of Barack Obama, has resulted in the purchase of this deadly system.…

1:30pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 30 :MW

…attacked at lunchtime on Tuesday in the Rempart Saint-Etienne area of Toulouse. A man, reported to be of Algerian origin, tried to grab the officer’s gun and it is understood that when he failed, he pulled out a knife, repeatedly stabbing her in the throat.…

“Psychiatric issues” … Gee, y'think? Cites Express UK.
1:27pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 30 :MW

A British backpacker hailed as a hero after being stabbed in an attack at an Australian hostel in which a fellow Briton was killed has died of his injuries… Tom Jackson, 30, sustained critical head injuries in the attack in a rural town in the north of Queensland state last Tuesday.…

1:24pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 30 :MW

Disinformation Propaganda and Spin

MSNBC’s Joy Reid was back at it again, Saturday, shouting down a conservative guest when they talked about the facts she wants to remain hidden. This time she shouted down Alfonso Aguilar, the President of the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, for daring to mention Planned Parenthood and Founder Margaret Sanger’s entrenched past in the eugenics movement.

“Planned Parenthood is not a eugenicist organization,” Reid exclaimed loudly on AM Joy, “I think that is incredibly offensive.”…

1:31pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 30 :MW
John Kerry

Kerry: ‘Media Would Do Us All a Service If They Didn’t Cover’ Terrorism as much…

1:09am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 30 :MW

Know the Enemy

George Soros

A leaked document from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations exposes the billionaire’s level of involvement in attempting to build what his organization describes as a “national movement” to reform local police forces across the U.S. The reform largely consists of federal guidelines for local police forces.…

1:22pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 30 :MW

Bad Parents

Mom defends her son’s right to wear a tutu after a stranger publicly confronts her… The stranger asked questions about why she was “doing this” to her son and told her son that she was a “bad mommy."

1:07am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 30 :MW
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Now *That's* Funny!

BoB
Bluebird is not above bird jokes
1:33pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 30 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Turkey signals no let up in Syria campaign, despite Western concerns…
One dead, 3 wounded in suicide blast at Chinese Embassy in Kyrgyzstan…
Hunger grips thousands of new South Sudan refugees in Uganda…

News headline links
1:16pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 30 :MW

Surprisingly Little Evidence for the Accepted Wisdom About Teeth…
Clemson stops man from praying on campus: ‘Not a free speech area’…
Nobody in Germany Wants to Hire Merkel's Rapists and Robbers…

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9:34am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 30 :MW
Nightmouse

Gab.ai & The Future of Free Speech in Social Media…
Twitter Now Trying To Quarantine Alt-Right After Failure To Destroy It…
Witchcraft, Islam And Humanism Are Filling The Spiritual Void Left By The Dying Church.…

News summaries with links
9:25am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 30 :MW

Damn! He's dumber than a box of rocks…
Another day, another ROP attack…
Angela Merkel doubles down on stupidity…

These generic, and other less-generic headline news links
9:10am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 30 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1963 the Moscow - Washington hotline between the leaders of the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union went into operation.

Vic is out hotline to the world's news
8:31am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 30 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

Hillary Clinton’s closest advisor Huma Abedin has finally separated from her husband Anthony Weiner over the latter’s latest “sexting” escapade. It seems that Mr. Weiner sent new photos of his, ahem, crotch to various females, including a Donald Trump supporter, who went public with what happened. The photo of the ex-congressman’s bulging pants also showed the couple’s infant son, which is apparently the proximate cause of Ms. Abedin’s decision to announce the separation.

In other news, the Italian coast guard rescued more than 1,000 would-be migrants in a single day.…

News summaries with links
1:10am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 30 :MW

US Election 2016

Hillary Clinton ogles Christina Aguilera

…Given that the former secretary of state used her office to enrich herself and her husband; given that she so willfully compromised national security by setting up her own private email server in order to avoid congressional and public oversight; given that she has repeatedly lied about these actions; given that she lied to the mothers and fathers of the men killed by terrorists in Benghazi; and given that she has a long history of lying (a New York Times columnist called her a "congenital liar" in the 1990s), the notion of Clinton as a model for America's girls and young women is nothing, if not depressing.…

1:35pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 30 :MW
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Wars and Rumors

Tehran has deployed a recently delivered Russian-made long-range missile system to central Iran to protect its Fordo nuclear facility, state television said Sunday.…

10:44am CDT Mon 2016 Aug 29 :MW

Disinformation Propaganda and Spin

Sunday, CNN’s “Newsroom” highlighted a tweet from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump sent out calling on his opponent Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to release her medical records.…However, the CNN version scrubbed the “Crooked” moniker from the tweet…

The Clinton "News" Network at it again.
9:10pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 29 :MW

Nature can be Deadly

Lightning

More than 300 wild reindeer have been killed by lighting in central Norway in what wildlife officials are calling an unusually large natural disaster. … 323 animals were killed, including 70 calves.…

9:17pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 29 :MW
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It's Only Money

Dollar Burning

The attack on cash has entered a new stage.

Kenneth Rogoff, the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University and the former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is out with an essay this morning in the Wall Street Journal titled,The Sinister Side of Cash.…

…Getting rid of most of it—that is, moving to a society where cash is used less frequently and mainly for small transactions—could be a big help...

There is little debate among law-enforcement agencies that paper currency, especially large notes such as the U.S. $100 bill, facilitates crime: racketeering, extortion, money laundering, drug and human trafficking, the corruption of public officials, not to mention terrorism.…

Excuses, excuses. Things the Government can't control, of all kinds, must be eliminated.
9:09pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 29 :MW

Animal Companions

Dog

Bruno, a 12-year-old brown Chesapeake-Labrador mix, has become the symbol of Longville, a small Minnesota community of just over 150 residents. Over the past 12 years, he has been taking daily 4-mile trips from his owners’ home to Longville, just so he can spend time with the locals… Although at first they were worried that he might get hit by a car on his way to town, the Lavallees soon realized Bruno could take care of himself and simply accepted his wandering ways.… He’s gait is slower than it once was and even laying down has become a painful process that he now performs with a grunt. He’s accepting rides back home more often than he used and on some days even stays home to rest.…

10:51am CDT Mon 2016 Aug 29 :MW
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Defending Ourselves

PAOLI, Okla. - An Oklahoma mom was arrested Monday morning, after police said she shot a man she found in her 16-year-old daughter's bedroom.

Police arrested 34-year-old Valerie Fowler for assault and battery with a deadly weapon.…

Oh, put me on the jury deciding that Mom's fate, please!
9:14pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 29 :MW

Breitbart is Here

American Thinker: Proof That Angry White Males Have Every Right To Be Angry…
Jammie Wearing Fools: Obama Movie Bombs At Box Office…
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – There Is NO Crying In Jihad!…

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9:19pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 29 :MW

Islamic State takes responsibility for Yemen bomb; at least 60 dead…
Female tourists should not wear skirts in India, says tourism minister…
Republicans slam Biden remarks on closing Gitmo…

News headline links
4:14pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 29 :MW

Mizzou Renames ‘Unisex’ Restrooms Because Term Isn’t Inclusive Enough…
Hillary Gets (More Than) a Little Help from Her Media Friends…
Israel, One of the World’s Driest Countries, Is Now Overflowing With Water…

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11:13am CDT Mon 2016 Aug 29 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

A man carrying a knife and shouting “Allahu Akhbar” went on a rampage at a music festival in Germany, attacking a married couple and gravely wounding the wife. The husband, despite his injuries, managed to fend off the attacker until he was arrested by police. The motive for the man’s rampage remains unknown.

In other news, a would-be suicide bomber failed in his mission to blow up a church in Indonesia during Sunday services. The bomb flamed, but did not explode. The attacker was also carrying an ax, which he swung at the priest, injuring him slightly in the hand. Parishioners subdued the suspect until police arrived. The motive for the attack remains unknown, although the attacker was reportedly carrying objects bearing the logo of the Islamic State.…

News summaries with links
11:08am CDT Mon 2016 Aug 29 :MW
Nightmouse

College Claims “Stop White People” Course Not Racist…
What the Media Isn’t Telling You About Venezuela…
What is It With the Clintons Hiring Employees With Ties to the Muslim Brotherhood?…

News summaries with links
11:00am CDT Mon 2016 Aug 29 :MW

Zorro causes major commotion at LAX…
Iran flips off world…
Your daily national security head scratcher…

News headline-ish links
9:57am CDT Mon 2016 Aug 29 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1786 Shays's Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, began in response to high debt and tax burdens. Again this wasn't a rebellion caused simply by high taxes. It was caused by high taxes that had to be paid in gold when there was almost no gold available to pay them.…

Vic's news always starts with a history lesson, reported so expertly you might think he'd been there…
9:55am CDT Mon 2016 Aug 29 :MW
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Wars and Rumors

A suicide bomb attempt at a Catholic church in Medan, North Sumatra, Sunday morning (28/08) has left the suspect with minor injuries after the bomb failed to detonate correctly. … ran towards to pulpit and attempted to stab the priest. The bomb hidden in the suspect's vest failed to detonate, only creating sparks which injured the would-be attacker. The priest sustained only minor scratches to his arm.…

11:11am CDT Sun 2016 Aug 28 :MW

Disinformation Propaganda and Spin

Facebook F

Facebook has fired its Trending News team, responsible for curating the social media network’s “Trending News” list, after Breitbart Tech began to reveal their progressive biases last month. The team is set to be replaced by a team of engineers managing an algorithm.…

The new "algorithm management" team - will they make it even easier to program in Zuckerberg biases?
11:08am CDT Sun 2016 Aug 28 :MW
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Animal Culture

Claudia collects cuddling critters - cute!
9:30am CDT Sun 2016 Aug 28 :MW

Now *That's* Funny!

…Fun news out of Ireland this morning. A castle, lost for 250 years has been found at last! It was on Castle Street, by Castle House. The locals knew it was there all along, and had been using it as a convenient place to dump trash.

http://tinyurl.com/zwqj7ra

10:02am CDT Sun 2016 Aug 28 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Political Hat

“Rigged system” crusader Bernie Sanders conveniently never got around to releasing his personal financial disclosure form…
Huma Abedin denies active role at radical Muslim journal…
153 Conservative Academics Come Out Of The Closet …

Lots of brief news summaries with links
10:04pm CDT Sun 2016 Aug 28 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1968 riots occurred in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention. While you hear a lot about unrestrained police in these riots what you do not hear from the MFM was that the riots occurred due to communist groups who were part of the anti-war demonstrators pushing the crowds into the riots. This was a strategy of these groups during the 60s. And it still carries forth to this day.…

Vic's like the powerful-armed paper boy who breaks your front screen door with the Sunday edition
9:40am CDT Sun 2016 Aug 28 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

A Muslim mob set fire to a house in northern Nigeria, killing eight people. The attackers were reportedly enraged that a Muslim resident of the house had previously save the life of a Christian who was being attacked by a rampaging mob.

In other news, a Southwest Airlines flight from New Orleans to Orlando had to make an emergency landing in Pensacola after part of one of its engines was destroyed by an unknown cause. No one was injured in the incident.

To see the headline…

9:26am CDT Sun 2016 Aug 28 :MW
Nightmouse

Media Ignores The Violent Anti-Trump Brownshirts of the Left…
Islamic garb welcome in BC garden, but Victorian era clothing gets the boot…
Now the Czech Government Is Warning Citizens To Stockpile Food…

News summaries with links
9:18am CDT Sun 2016 Aug 28 :MW

US Election 2016

Add Barbra Streisand to the list of celebrities who will be moving out of the United States if Donald Trump is elected president in November.…

10:00pm CDT Sun 2016 Aug 28 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Nightmouse

Huma Abedin ‘Most Likely a Saudi Spy’…
Milo To Hillary: ‘You Did This’…
What the Hell Is the Alt Right and Why Is Hillary Clinton Denouncing It?…

News summaries with links
10:05pm CDT Sat 2016 Aug 27 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

According to the Defense Department, potentially violent encounters in the Persian Gulf between Iranian forces and the US Navy have risen by more than 50% this year compared with last year. In the latest incident, four Iranian gunboats traveling at high speed approached within 300 yards of the destroyer USS Nimitz.

In other news, the Austrian Foreign Minister described German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s handling of the migration crisis as “irresponsible”.…

News summaries with links
10:03pm CDT Sat 2016 Aug 27 :MW

Have More Kids. It's Good For the Planet…
Sally Kohn Doubles Down on Her Defense of Sharia as 'Progressive'…
How Israel Became a Role Model in Fighting Terrorism…

News headline links
10:02pm CDT Sat 2016 Aug 27 :MW
Geezer Volcano

…On this day in 1883 The volcano Krakatoa erupted with four enormous explosions that destroyed the island of Krakatoa and killed thousands of people with the immediate volcano effects. Other effects due to a huge amount of material in the atmosphere are disputed.

Vic spews forth the news simmered in boiling lava of his commentary
10:32am CDT Sat 2016 Aug 27 :MW
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Pareidolia

BoB
Bluebird outdoes herself with a collection of critters hidden in critter pictures.
7:55pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 26 :MW

Animal Companions

A man got lost while he was hiking in the mountains in Gimmelwald, Switzerland. A cat came up to him and showed him the way.…

8:13pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 26 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Bookworm

I’m on the road bringing the Little Bookworm to college, but that doesn’t mean things stop here. Hotels have wifi and I have my friends Caped Crusader and Erich K to send me wonderful political posters. I’m not organizing them — that’s too hard with an iPad — but you’ll find they run the gamut from political to funny (and sometimes both at the same time). To the extent any of them purport to quote someone, I am not vouching for the veracity of the quotation.…

7:39pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 26 :MW

Doctors Sue Obama Administration for Forcing Them to Perform Gender Transition Procedures…
Organic Farms Yield 20% Fewer Crops than Conventional Farms…
University of Chicago to freshmen: We don’t do ‘safe spaces’…

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7:32pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 26 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

An explosion at a sports center in Belgium leveled half the building and buried five people in the rubble. At least one person is thought to have died in the blast. The authorities don’t yet know the cause of the explosion, but they are certain there is no connection to terrorism. As of this writing, there’s no word on whether anyone shouted “Allahu Akhbar”, had a history of mental problems, or was bullied in school. Stay tuned.

In other news, during German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit to Prague, an armed man driving a Mercedes tried to push his way into her motorcade, in a presumed assassination attempt. The man was arrested and is now in police custody.…

News summaries with links
7:25pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 26 :MW

Fighters and residents leave besieged Damascus suburb Daraya…
North Korea claims it’s now able to nuke U.S. mainland…
Top French court rules Burkini bans violate basic freedoms…

News headline links
7:18pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 26 :MW
Nightmouse

Ithaca students want profs to teach diversity in every class…
Lies over “Allahu Akbar” Stabbing in Australia…
‘Intercultural’ campus event to offer safe-space nametags: Green means go, red means stranger danger…

News summaries with links
7:01pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 26 :MW

The Nanny State, when will it end?…
Economy stumbling along…
Growing old sucks…

News headline links in the form of enigmas and mysteries
3:14pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 26 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1346 the military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armored knights was established at the Battle of Crécy. Modern historians are disputing this however and saying the deciding factor was not the longbow, but it was the mud.…

Vic is up before you to get the news for you
3:12pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 26 :MW

US Election 2016

Haggard Hillary

…Are you married to a man with a “Make America Great Again” hat? Do you live in terror that he’s just moments away from burning a cross on someone’s front yard?

You need the Hillary Clinton Racism Decoder Whistle!

This handy device can translate any innocuous statement into a frothing, Neo-Nazi clarion call.…

Possibly sarcasm
8:18pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 26 :MW

Much has been made about a supposed 'flip flop ' on amnesty for illegal aliens by Donald Trump.

This is sheer horse manure for the #nevertrumpers to wallow in, like they were actually going to vote for him anyway. Trump isn't remotely selling 'amnesty.' Far from it.…

7:20pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 26 :MW
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Wars and Rumors

A U.S. Navy ship fired warning shots toward an Iranian fast-attack craft that approached two U.S. ships, a Pentagon spokesman said on Thursday, in the most serious of a number of incidents in the Gulf area this week…

Citing Reuters. Links to many articles.
8:45pm CDT Thu 2016 Aug 25 :MW

France: Muslim VIOLENTLY BEATS 11 elderly victims, throws them in the water screaming “ALLAHU AKBAR,” Media BLACK-OUT…

3:16pm CDT Thu 2016 Aug 25 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

The Guardian: Italy earthquake: death toll soars as powerful aftershock rocks Amatrice…
Global superpowers condemn chemical weapon use in Syria…
N. Korea threatens US with ‘nuclear hammers of justice’ after missile test…

News headline links
6:24pm CDT Thu 2016 Aug 25 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

The young “Frenchman” who stabbed a British woman and a dog to death at a hostel in Queensland appears to have been motivated at least in part by sexual obsession with the victim (the human victim, that is — not sure about the dog), in addition to the jihad aspect implied by “Allahu Akhbar”. If so, it makes this incident very similar to the murder of a Polish woman in a Reutlingen restaurant back in July. Perhaps the killer lusted after her, and fantasized that she was already his property, an infidel sex slave possessed by his right hand. Then, when she popped his testosterone-filled balloon, he went into full jihad mode to avenge his injured honor, just like the perp in Reutlingen.

In other news, a coordinated jihad attack on American University in Kabul killed one person and wounded at least 25 others.…

News summaries with links
6:21pm CDT Thu 2016 Aug 25 :MW

When It Comes to Sex, Baby Boomers Aren’t Normal…
THE STATE DEPARTMENT AS PROTECTION RACKET…
Hillary Clinton may just be running out the clock…

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3:31pm CDT Thu 2016 Aug 25 :MW

Twitter Is in Yahoo-Level Trouble…
Robbing the New (Uber) to Subsidize the Old (Taxis)…
Our World: Soros’s campaign of global chaos…

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3:29pm CDT Thu 2016 Aug 25 :MW

American Power: #Crooked Hillary’s Inescapable Cloud Of Corruption…
Don Surber: Detroit Is Pottersville…
The Lonely Conservative: #NeverTrump – It’s Not Moral Superiority, It’s Depression…

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3:27pm CDT Thu 2016 Aug 25 :MW

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: How To Deport 11 Million Aliens And Not Spend A Penny…
Jammie Wearing Fools: FBI Files Linking Hillary Clinton To Vince Foster’s “Suicide” Missing From National Archives…
This Ain’t Hell: Clintoon – “Colin Told Me To Do It.” Powell – “Um, No I Didn’t”…

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3:23pm CDT Thu 2016 Aug 25 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

A 29-year-old “Frenchman” stabbed a British woman to death and critically wounded a British man at a hostel in Queensland. The perpetrator is alleged to have shouted “Allahu Akhbar” as he committed his heinous acts. A dog was also stabbed to death. The man’s motive is not known at this time, although he is said to have had mental problems. There’s no word yet as to whether he was bullied in school, but the Australian police assure the public that he acted alone and that there is no link to terrorism.

In other news, migrants set fire to an asylum center in Germany while smoking a hookah pipe.…

News summaries with links
2:11pm CDT Thu 2016 Aug 25 :MW

Tornadoes strike IN…
Quake hits Myanmar…
Oregon to see large power rate increases…

News headline links, many with a twisted twist
1:55pm CDT Thu 2016 Aug 25 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1948 the House Un-American Activities Committee held the first-ever televised congressional hearing. This was "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss. Both were Russian spies. Liberals to this day deny Hiss was a communist spy but that fact has been verified via the Vernona papers and furthermore the FBI knew it at the time but did not want to let it be known that they had broken the Russian spy ring. Much has been made of the Joe McCarthy hearings over in the Senate but it was not part of the House doings. …

Vic's take is a given.
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Your blog-heaper missed a few items yesterday. May make them up today. May not.
1:53pm CDT Thu 2016 Aug 25 :MW

US Election 2016

Hillary

…Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign has sent out a fundraising email arguing the website Breitbart News has no “right to exist,” and suggests that if elected, the website will be shut down entirely.…

3:25pm CDT Thu 2016 Aug 25 :MW
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Political Theater

Dog

…Duke the Great Pyrenees is the only dog that's ever been elected mayor in America, and he proudly serves the people of Cormorant, a tiny Western Minnesota town with about 1,000 residents. He was just reelected for his third year-long term…

9:42pm CDT Wed 2016 Aug 24 :MW
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Earth Shakes

Earthquake

At least 159 dead, 368 others hurt as strong earthquake rocks central Italy… hundreds of others were injured… destroyed a cluster of small mountain villages…

9:36pm CDT Wed 2016 Aug 24 :MW

Mystery

…The Voynich Manuscript …a small publishing house in Spain …is in the process of re-creating the volume — "every stain, hole, sewn-up tear in the parchment…"

9:40pm CDT Wed 2016 Aug 24 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

THE CROCODILE PARADOX…
CNN thinks "blacks" synonym for "felons"…
Hillary Wears Heavy Coat and Black Pants to Nantucket Fundraiser…

News, views, and info headline links
10:09am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 23 :MW
Nightmouse

German court rules Muslim woman can not wear face veil in class…
FBI uncovers 14,900 more documents in Clinton email probe…
Liberals Foaming at the Mouth Over Houston White Lives Matter Protest…

News summaries with links
10:06am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 23 :MW

What good is free medicine when there is no food to eat?…
Not surprising news…
Bow-wow, woof-woof …

News headline links, steeped in mystery
9:33am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 23 :MW
Geezer

…On this day on 1784 Western North Carolina (now eastern Tennessee) declared itself an independent state under the name of Franklin; it was not recognized or accepted into the United States, and it only lasted for four years. However it did separate from NC later and became the State of TN in 1796.

Vic News Network - fair and balanced, such as it is
9:03am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 23 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

A woman boarded a bus in Brussels today and attacked her fellow passengers with a machete, wounding three of them before she was shot by police. Two of the passengers are in serious condition, and the attacker is also in the hospital. She is said to be of “Asian” background, and has a history of mental problems. There’s no word yet on whether she was bullied in school.

In other news, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said in a Fox News appearance that the press is ignoring the issue of Hillary Clinton’s ill health.…

News summaries with links
2:19am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 23 :MW

EBL: The Mystery Of Huma Abedin…
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries (551)…
This Ain’t Hell: German Party Wants The Right To Arm Themselves…

News and views headline links
2:13am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 23 :MW
Bookworm

…My Little Bookworm did give me some insight into why public schools are loath to teach one of the greatest writers and thinkers in the English language. When we asked what her takeaway was from the book, she had this to say: “That whole Thought Police thing Orwell wrote about — it’s just like Political Correctness. There are no clear rules, but you have to think correctly or you get into trouble.”…

2:11am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 23 :MW
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Wars and Rumors

…A boy suicide bomber in his early teens was arrested by Kurdish security forces in Kirkuk on Sunday night before detonating his explosives belt, after two other suicide attacks on the same day in the Kurdish city.…

Children raised in the religion of pieces
10:44am CDT Mon 2016 Aug 22 :MW

A Muslim landlord who attacked his Christian tenant with a metal pipe and broke her leg during a discussion about their religion, which had escalated into an argument……

"Say that mine is a Religion of Peace or I'll kill you!"
10:41am CDT Mon 2016 Aug 22 :MW

Kettering Police and Ascension Catholic Church leaders say two to three Arab men who entered the church Sunday and began videotaping the service were studying Christianity.

The men’s activity alarmed some parishioners who contacted police which prompted officers to respond…

"Studying Christianity" to what purpose? That's the real question.
10:38am CDT Mon 2016 Aug 22 :MW

Know the Enemy

This is Texas, not Saudi Arabia.… Every single day, the two women were brought over to al-Homoud’s home, where they were beaten, starved, and worked like slaves for absolutely no pay. The only food they were allowed was from the leftovers he and his wife left, and their only form of a shower was the water hose outside. When al-Homoud was not “using” his slaves, he “stored” them in a gigantic plastic box he created.…

2:11pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 22 :MW
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Pareidolia

BoB
More hilarious proof that they're watching you wherever you are.
1:58pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 22 :MW

Man and Woman

Man and Woman

A federal judge in Texas is blocking for now the Obama administration’s directive to U.S. public schools that transgender students must be allowed to use the bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity.…

Citing AP
2:04pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 22 :MW

…The major takeaway, as the editor of the journal explains, is that “some of the most frequently heard claims about sexuality and gender are not supported by scientific evidence.”…

Not really news except to the ill-informed
12:10pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 22 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Turkey vows to cleanse Islamic State from its border after wedding attack kills 54…
S. Korea, US start drills despite N. Korea's nuclear threat…
'We are heading towards a European 9/11'…

News headline links
2:06pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 22 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

The German government is toughening border controls along its Swiss border. Migrants who are being blocked from the Balkan route and the Brenner Pass are now crossing through Switzerland and attempting to enter Germany that way.

In other news, a suicide bomber blew up at a wedding in Turkey, killing at least 50 people and injuring many more. The bomber is said to have been a 12-year-old boy sent by the Islamic State and detonated remotely.…

News summaries with links
2:02pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 22 :MW

Why Zika is our friend…
Is God Transgender?…
A bizarre editorial from some paper in New York…

News and views headline links - BirdDog Returns!
2:01pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 22 :MW
Political Hat

Does WikiLeaks Have Hillary Clinton’s October Surprise? …
Gun Control Researcher: You Can’t See My Data…
NPR Lectures About Selfish Moms Having Kids in “Age of Climate Change”…

Brief news summaries with links
1:59pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 22 :MW
Bookworm

…Facts favor conservativism, which is why the mainstream media works so hard to hide them.…

Analysis with links to sources
10:35am CDT Mon 2016 Aug 22 :MW

What is bigger her butt or her carbon foot print?
Does Huma hate the U.S.A. as much as Hillary?
Zika a threat to the gulf region?

These and more headline news links, not all inquiries
10:28am CDT Mon 2016 Aug 22 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1952 the infamous French penal colony on Devil's Island was permanently closed.…

V.ic doesn't let Monday stop him from delivering
10:18am CDT Mon 2016 Aug 22 :MW

US Election 2016

The latest ad from Hillary Clinton’s campaign suggests that, if elected, Donald Trump might launch nuclear weapons because he lacks the experience and temperament to be president.…

What worked for Johnson won't work for Hillary
2:08pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 22 :MW

…They were angry. The coal industry that made West Virginia prosperous has been devastated. Every day, it seemed, another mine laid off workers or closed entirely. Friends were forfeiting their cars, homes and futures.

For these men, this season’s presidential campaign boils down to a single choice. “I’m for Trump…”

Cites NY Times
10:42am CDT Mon 2016 Aug 22 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

New York City is abandoning its English-proficiency tests for would-be taxi drivers. The city is hoping that the relaxation of the rule will allow more immigrants to get behind the wheel of a cab.

In other news, Adel Kermiche, the young man who halal-slaughtered a priest in a church near Rouen, has finally been laid to rest in a crypt owned by his family.…

News summaries with links
12:10pm CDT Sun 2016 Aug 21 :MW
Nightmouse

Generation Entitled: Woman sues her high school for life’s failures…
Islamic Extremism? No, it’s not…
Soros’ “Islamophobia” Plot Against David Horowitz Revealed…

News summaries with links
12:07pm CDT Sun 2016 Aug 21 :MW
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Wars and Rumors

ISIS Turkey wedding bombing: 22 killed and 94 injured after suicide bomb attack… in the city of Gaziantep, which is located 40 miles from the Syrian border…

9:33pm CDT Sat 2016 Aug 20 :MW

…One eyewitness stated that the MUSLIM suspect “had the knife in his right hand and he just walked off – he didn’t even run away after brutally stabbing 18-year-old, Lance Scott Walker, to death multiple times.”…

Just an everyday activity for some, it seems.
9:26pm CDT Sat 2016 Aug 20 :MW

Digital Threat

The Commerce Department is finalizing the transition of control of the internet from U.S. hands to a "multi-stakeholder" model that includes Russia and China.

None of this was approved by Congress. The administration is acting unilaterally to strip U.S. control of the internet and give it to totalitarians and religious fanatics.…

3:25pm CDT Sat 2016 Aug 20 :MW

Disinformation Propaganda and Spin

[Headline:] Gawker had its problems, but its death is worrying for all watchdog journalists…

Meh, probably not so much
9:28pm CDT Sat 2016 Aug 20 :MW

Know the Enemy

[Headline:] Terror-Tied CAIR To Donald Trump: The Constitution Says Government Can’t Study Or Criticize Islam…

Dangerous terrorist cult that despises Western culture and enslaves womankind says Government can't study or criticize them. Communists and Nazis agree.
9:31pm CDT Sat 2016 Aug 20 :MW
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Modern Culture

"I’d ask for everyone here, including the children, when you grow up, I want to ask you to pledge to finish school, learn a trade, a skilled trade, get a college education, start a business, do something useful and produce something in your society so you don’t have to live off others. Thank you.” [Austin City Council member Don] Zimmerman said.

Shortly after he made this comment boos could be heard reverberating throughout the audience.…

9:25pm CDT Sat 2016 Aug 20 :MW
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Military Culture

What began as an Army vs. Navy argument in Oklahoma City turned dangerous when one of the participants left the verbal exchange and returned with firearms… The men had been drinking, per the report.…

3:29pm CDT Sat 2016 Aug 20 :MW

Breitbart is Here

The NSA Leak Is Real, Snowden Documents Confirm…
The Top Ten Emerging Technologies of 2016 (Half of that list is stupid. The other half would be useless if it were practical)…
98 personal data points that Facebook uses to target ads to you…

Select news and views headline links
3:33pm CDT Sat 2016 Aug 20 :MW
Nightmouse

New Gun Control Idea: Take Guns from Senior Citizens…
Macmillan geography textbook filled with anti-Israel lies…
The end of the internet as we know it…

News summaries with links
3:24pm CDT Sat 2016 Aug 20 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump visited flood-stricken areas of Louisiana, declaring his support for the locals in their resolve to rebuild. President Barack Obama, despite the legacy of opprobrium heaped on his predecessor George W. Bush for neglecting flood-stricken areas of Louisiana, stayed away from the state and remained on vacation at Martha’s Vineyard. Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s whereabouts were not reported, but she is thought to be resting on pillows while being supported by several aides at an undisclosed location.

OK, I admit it: I made that last part up.

In other news, with an eye on the Muslim tourist trade, New Zealand’s official tourist board has released a halal food guide for travelers.…

News summaries with links
3:19pm CDT Sat 2016 Aug 20 :MW

US Election 2016

…Donald Trump fundraiser in Minneapolis on Friday night. …protesters banging on the doors of the Minneapolis Convention Center where Trump was speaking to attendees. …Trump supporters were forced to run a “gauntlet,” with many, including elderly women, being punched and pelted with garbage.…

Gantlet, not gauntlet? Whatever, frenzied mob of mostly-peaceful leftists
3:16pm CDT Sat 2016 Aug 20 :MW

Progressive activists attacked Donald Trump’s motorcade and supporters in Minneapolis late Friday night, but the local media downplayed the unprecedented attack against an American presidential candidate.…

"Progressive activists"?? Frenzied mob!
3:12pm CDT Sat 2016 Aug 20 :MW
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Wars and Rumors

Isis has claimed its first terror attack on Russian soil after two supporters attempted to murder police officers near Moscow.

Both of the men were killed during the assault at a traffic post on a motorway in Balashika on Wednesday, when they were armed with a gun and two axes.…

They may find messing with Putin is different from messing with Merkel or Obama.
11:26pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 19 :MW

An al-Qaeda-linked Libyan prisoner, currently held at the U.S. military detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, has been declared too dangerous to release by President Barack Obama’s parole-style board, according to the Pentagon.

The decision by the Periodic Review Board (PRB) to declare the 48-year-old Libyan detainee, Ismael Ali Faraj Ali Bakush, unsuitable for release does not necessarily mean he will remain imprisoned indefinitely.…

Which will probably just encourage Obama to release him sooner.
1:28am CDT Fri 2016 Aug 19 :MW

Know the Enemy

A senior Muslim cleric in Russia has suggested that universal female genital mutilation (FGM) would be a positive development, after a rights group released a report denouncing the practice earlier this week.…

1:39am CDT Fri 2016 Aug 19 :MW

An Oklahoma college student visiting Washington D.C. on a school trip, says he was beat up for wearing a Redskins Jersey. And the person he got into a fight with was a White House official in charge of American Indian education.

Barrett Dahl is Native American and a member of both the Choctaw and Sac and Fox Nations. He is also autistic.…

[William] Mendoza is the Executive Director of the White House Initiative of American Indian and Alaska Native Education… “Where are you from? You’re so stupid and uneducated. You don’t understand Redskins is offensive? And I tell him I’m from Oklahoma as I’m very proud to be and that’s when he spits on me…”

Politically Correct Language Police are insane enforcers of insanity.
1:19am CDT Fri 2016 Aug 19 :MW

End of the World As We Know It

Actor Tom Arnold penned an essay on Thursday…

…not that anyone should care.
1:40am CDT Fri 2016 Aug 19 :MW

Glenn Beck reacted to the news of Stephen K. Bannon joining Donald Trump’s presidential campaign…

…with more proof he needs to change his meds.
1:35am CDT Fri 2016 Aug 19 :MW

Billie Joe Armstrong, frontman for rock band Green Day, became the latest celebrity to…

…obscenely spew some thoughtless political diatribe. Who cares?
1:27am CDT Fri 2016 Aug 19 :MW
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Spiritual Matters

…in the early 20th century a local group in Rio called the Catholic Circle saw a need to reclaim the city for Christ.

“In the wake of World War One, [Catholic Circle] feared an advancing tide of godlessness. Church and state had been separated when Brazil became a republic at the end of the previous century, and they saw the statue as a way of reclaiming Rio – then Brazil’s capital city – for Christianity.…”

A host of workers started construction on the massive statue in 1922 and completed it in 1931. It was built using metal scaffolding and cranes with the materials being carried up the mountain by railway.

The statue was officially opened to visitors on October 12, 1931…Philip Kosloski

1:25am CDT Fri 2016 Aug 19 :MW

Healing Ourselves

In an astonishing breakthrough, patients left paralysed by severe spinal cord injuries have recovered the ability to move their legs after training with an exoskeleton linked to their brain – with one even able to walk using two crutches.

Scientists developed the Walk Again Project, based in Sao Paulo, Brazil, thinking that they could enable paraplegics to move about using the exoskeleton controlled by their thoughts.

But they were surprised to discover that during the training, the eight patients all started to regain the sense of touch and movement below the injury to their spine.… researchers now believe that a few nerves survived and these were reactivated by the training, which may have rewired circuits in the brain.…

1:09am CDT Fri 2016 Aug 19 :MW

Animal Companions

Dog

…Firefighters learned the child was trapped on the second floor of the home. …Firefighters …found Poremski's dog, Polo, in the room with her and he was covering her with his body. "She only had burns on her side because of it… He stayed with her the whole time in the bedroom and wouldn't even come downstairs to get out the door." …Viviana …has severe burns on her face, arm and side. But Polo did not survive the fire.…

4:34pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 19 :MW

History - still with us

Red Star Hammer & Sickle

The junta that tried to seize power in the Soviet Union on August 18-21, 1991, is one of the most inept in the history of palace coups. Not only did it fail to take power, but it also brought about the opposite of its aims – the collapse of the USSR.…

Comment by former USSR citizen War News Updater, with links to several stories
4:29pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 19 :MW

Earth Science

…The country its currently updating its very longitude and latitude to correct a divergence with global satellite navigation systems. Geoscience Australia, a part of the Australian government, is behind the project of getting the Geocentric Datum of Australia, the country's national coordinate system, up to code and bring it in line with international data.…

Australia has moved 5 feet since the last update.
1:15am CDT Fri 2016 Aug 19 :MW
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Defending Ourselves

The phrase “wrong house” has never been more appropriate. An entire family participated in the shooting of an intruder who broke into a house less than a mile from his own residence.…

1:34am CDT Fri 2016 Aug 19 :MW

Breitbart is Here

Twitchy: Trump Makes #WhereIsHillary #1 Trending Topic On Twitter…
Da Tech Guy: A Godless Olympics…
Shot In The Dark: Faith And Law…

News and views headline links
11:24pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 19 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

France has closed its border crossing with Italy at Ventimiglia, leaving thousands of migrants stranded, without a way to continue their journey north. Many of those migrants have devised the strategy of crossing the Alps via foot trails in an attempt to get into France through less secure border crossings.

In other news, a 15-year-old “Dutch” girl in Maastricht was convicted and sentenced to eight months in juvenile detention for attempting to travel to Syria and join the Islamic State.…

News summaries and links
4:38pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 19 :MW

People ignore software security warnings up to 90 percent of the time…
What Great Listeners Actually Do…
DNA traces origins of Iceman's ragtag wardrobe…

PNews and info headline links
4:37pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 19 :MW

WTF? Heads should roll…
Clintons & Ethics, that's like water & oil…
1890s smallpox outbreak coming back to life?…

News headline links with "creative" headlines
10:09am CDT Fri 2016 Aug 19 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1692 in Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay, five people, one woman and four men, including a clergyman, were executed by hanging after being convicted of witchcraft.

What Vic does in gathering the news seems almost like witchcraft.
9:49am CDT Fri 2016 Aug 19 :MW

Dustbury: Gratification Still Delayed…
JustOneMinute: We’re From The UN And We’re Here To Help…
Power Line: …The Trump Speech That Will Win Him The Presidency…

News and views headline links
1:31am CDT Fri 2016 Aug 19 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

…Based on MSM headlines, the most important news stories during our absence seem to concern Donald Trump. He did some bad things or has bad characteristics that frighten people, including racism, xenophobia, fascist tendencies, and taking inconsistent policy positions. I didn’t read the details, but it sounds very alarming.

Also: there have been Islamic terror attacks and police raids in Russia, Germany, and Belgium. A woman was gang-raped by migrants in Austria. More and more cars are being torched every night in Sweden. And Anjem Choudary was convicted.…

News summaries with links
1:29am CDT Fri 2016 Aug 19 :MW
Nightmouse

Without Global Warming, Civilization Would Never Have Been Possible…
Here’s How “President Hillary” Will Destroy Your Gun Rights Without Repealing The Second Amendment…
OKWU joins suit alleging Obama admin sex assault rules violate due process…

News summaries with links
1:21am CDT Fri 2016 Aug 19 :MW

US Election 2016

Trump, smiling

Say, remember just a couple weeks ago when Barack Obama smugly declared Donald J. Trump “wholly unfit to serve as President?”

Well, today, the man who is allegedly unfit to serve shamed the sitting President into acting like a, well, President.

Irony can be so ironic.…

11:27pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 19 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree…
Ouch!…
Moar economic bad news…

These and many more more-discernible news headline links
10:09am CDT Thu 2016 Aug 18 :MW
Geezer

… On this day in 1920 the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, thus guaranteeing women's right to vote.…

Vic's early morning report with Vic's early morning retorts
9:48am CDT Thu 2016 Aug 18 :MW
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Wars and Rumors

A Tulsa Imam said Muslims in Tulsa are really trying to get the message out: extremists don't represent the Muslim religion. …"Just as the KKK is unrepresentative of historical Christianity… They were a big thorn in the side of America for some time." Ederer said that message seems to be getting drowned out lately. "So, they're just buying into all this terrible rhetoric that's going around right now," said Ederer.…

Odd that a religion which fundamentally teaches conquering, slaying "infidels," subjugating women, and betraying truth should get such a bad rap.
8:06pm CDT Wed 2016 Aug 17 :MW

Liberal Politics

…The Palmdale School District initially told the seven-year-old student, identified as “C”, he could only share the Bible verses after the school bell rang and only at the school gate. After he and his family complied, the student was told he could only hand out notes on the public sidewalk far from the exit of the school.

Even though C and his family agreed to comply to the second directive, a Los Angeles Deputy Sheriff then came to the Zavalas family home and said C must stop sharing the notes because “someone might be offended,” according to Liberty Counsel, which agreed to represent the family against the school district.

…The censorship began after children at the Palmdale School District wanted C to share the Bible verses with them. Other children even begged C for copies of the verses, and even wanted his short Bible stories that provided contest (sic) for the verses. When one little girl told her teacher, “This is the most beautiful story I’ve ever seen,” school officials banned the notes from lunchtime distribution, citing separation of church and state.

Never let them know you liked something, They'll just try to take it away.
5:42pm CDT Wed 2016 Aug 17 :MJ

Bad Parents

Police in Arkansas were shocked by the physical condition of an abused four-year-old girl but they soon found that the child’s physical condition wasn’t the only damage the girl had sustained. There was mental abuse, too. The little one had withstood so much abuse she told police she thought her name was “idiot.”…

5:25pm CDT Wed 2016 Aug 17 :MW

Untied States

Okla Flag

The Oklahoma House and Senate leadership dropped the ball repeatedly during the 2015-16 legislative session. They helped maintain the status quo and refused to stand up to Washington D.C. on a variety of fronts. The legislature effectively killed 21 bills that would have blocked the federal enforcement of unconstitutional policies. To make matters worse, the vast majority of the bills did not even receive a vote in their respective chambers.…

12:03am CDT Wed 2016 Aug 17 :MW

End of the World As We Know It

…X-Men: Apocalypse actress Sophie Turner states that if she had super powers…

…she wouldn't choose keeping her stupid opinions to herself.
8:10pm CDT Wed 2016 Aug 17 :MW
2

Now *That's* Funny!

BoB
Old, and older, ads for cancer sticks - doctor recommended!
12:17am CDT Wed 2016 Aug 17 :MW
3

Breitbart is Here

JustOneMinute: The Positive Power Of Misunderestimation…
Shot In The Dark: Chanting Points Memo – Minnesota’s Wondrous Economy…
Weasel Zippers: Soros Paid Al Gore Millions To Hype Global Warming Fears…

News and views headline links
8:08pm CDT Wed 2016 Aug 17 :MW
Bookworm

I’m slowly regaining my sea legs (or do I mean “blogging legs”?) after a debilitating few days with a migraine. An excellent illustrated edition seems like a good way to get back into the swing of things…

4:23pm CDT Wed 2016 Aug 17 :MW

George Soros a disgusting human being…
Silly criminal, You are not a Clinton…
Another reason not to eat cut bait…

News headline links, many wittily disguised/div>
4:11pm CDT Wed 2016 Aug 17 :MW
Geezer

…Today is Wednesday, August 17, 2016. On this day in 1585 the first group of English colonists to America were sent by Sir Walter Raleigh under the charge of Ralph Lane. They landed in the New World to create Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of present-day North Carolina. The colony disappeared and its fate is unknown.…

Vic harvests the news and covers it in vinegar
8:38am CDT Wed 2016 Aug 17 :MW
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Wars and Rumors

Oklahoma: Ruling delayed on jihadi’s plea; admits to beheading co-worker for insulting Islam, Judge considering “mental illness”…

It's a tough thing - what jihadist isn't, essentially, insane? Speaking of nuts:

…Robert Hunt, a Southern Methodist University professor considered an expert on Islamic beliefs, testified for the defense that Nolen, a Muslim convert, developed ideas about being a Muslim that are irrational, contradictory and not in keeping with normal Islamic teachings or the ideology of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS.…

10:57pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 16 :MW

Anjem Choudary, one of Britain’s most notorious hate preachers, has been convicted of supporting Islamic State. He now faces up to a decade in jail.…

8:51pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 16 :MW

Impeach Obama

Fifteen prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center were sent to the United Arab Emirates in the single largest release of detainees during the Obama administration… had been held without charge at Guantanamo, some for over 14 years…

Eight of those years were under Obama. Guantanamo long ago needed cleaningo-up, by bringing charges and executions where applicable, not long-term uncharged incarceration, but nothing justifies Obama's wholesale liberation of hardened enemies.
8:49pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 16 :MW
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Digital Future is Now

…one of the nation's leading Virtual Reality companies THE VOID has rejected… explicit content on their immersive hyper-reality experiences," which will open to the public in "VOID Experience Centers" around the world.…

Can't hold off the inevitable
11:01pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 16 :MW

Oh! The Irony!

…Parents of students at Yukon [Oklahoma] Middle School recently noticed an error on their new t-shirts.

This shirt includes the slogan, “Execellence in Education.”…

5:23pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 16 :MW

Big City Stories

…Albuquerque’s Mayor Richard Berry saw a rise in panhandlers in his city and knew that something had to be done. Rather than trying to kick them out, or just building new government shelters, he gave them a chance to work.

In September 2015, Berry launched “There’s a Better Way,” a government program that hires panhandlers to work on city beautification projects for $9 an hour. They’re also fed lunch and offered an overnight stay at a shelter.

The project has been a runaway success.…

Citing Red Alert Politics
4:51pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 16 :MW

Digital Business

…Paywalls were supposed to help rescue newspapers from the crisis of sinking print circulation as readers shifted to getting their news online.

But with a few exceptions, they have failed to deliver much relief, prompting some news organizations to rethink their digital strategies.…

Citing Pakistan Express Tribune / AFP
4:55pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 16 :MW

Now *That's* Funny!

A collection of unintentionally hilarious headlines
9:00pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 16 :MW
You won't see anything like these advertisements anymore!
8:46pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 16 :MW

History - still with us

A synagogue dating back to the end of the Second Temple Era was discovered on the Tel Recheš Peak in the Galilee last week in a rare and unique archaeological find. …a huge and impressive room nine meters high and eight meters wide with walls lined with benches made of limestone blocks. Diggers also discovered one of the two foundational pillars supporting the synagogue's roof. …reveals insights into customs of the ancient Jewish community and sheds light on watershed moments in Jewish history.…

5:04pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 16 :MW
3

Breitbart is Here

Political Hat

Wargaming the Electoral College…
Concealed-Carry Permit Surge Could Play Decisive Role in These 2016 Battleground States…
Can the states legally ban “gay conversion” therapy?…

Lots of brief news summaries with links
11:23pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 16 :MW

How the Hunt Brothers Cornered the Silver Market and Then Lost it All…
Seagate Introduces a 60TB SSD – Is a 3.6PB Storage Pod Next?…
World Brain: The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopaedia…

News and info headline links
11:17pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 16 :MW

Twitchy: Another One Bites The Dust? Brad Thor Lays Down His #NeverTrump Sword…
American Thinker: It Won’t End Well For Global Elites…
This Ain’t Hell: Sole Female Marine Drops Out Of Infantry Training…

News and views headline links
11:11pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 16 :MW

Adam Piggott: The Disgusting Fat Acceptance Movement…
Don Surber: Media Meltdown…
The Lonely Conservative: History Is The Story Of Life…

News and views headline links
11:08pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 16 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

Fire broke out today at a refugee center in the German city of Kassel, destroying at least a dozen of the containers used to house the migrants. Sixteen residents of the center received medical treatment for smoke inhalation. The fire department has ruled out an anti-migrant attack as the cause of the fire.

In other news, three people have been killed and more than 7,000 rescued during the massive flooding that has struck the state of Louisiana.…

News summaries with links
10:53pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 16 :MW
Nightmouse

Milwaukee County Sheriff explains the cause of riots: Failed Liberal Policies…
Big Chill: ‘Substantial Cooling’ Predicted Within The Next Few Years…
New Black Panther Leader on Milwaukee: This Is A War…

News summaries with links
8:15pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 16 :MW
Nightmouse

Islam Academic: Migrants Want Eurabia, Globalists Using Migrants to Destroy The West…
Whites Targeted In Milwaukee Riots…
Black Lives Matter Targets Graceland: Plans To ‘Shut Down’ Elvis Week…

News summaries and links
8:03pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 16 :MW

Hillary Clinton suborning illegal voting…
Obama administration flips off America…
G.O.P talking tough…

News headline links - most not as generic as those selected above.
10:00am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 16 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1916 the Migratory Bird Treaty between Canada and the United States was signed. …

Meet Vic. He brings the news and commentary like no one else.
9:38am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 16 :MW

US Election 2016

Yesterday in Youngstown, Ohio, Donald Trump delivered the best speech of his campaign to date. Newt Gingrich rightly called it the most important since Ronald Reagan left office.… Mr. Trump made clear that he recognizes the threat to freedom in our time, which he explicitly characterized as “Radical Islam” and its guiding, supremacist ideology, Sharia.…

Video of complete speech: World News Daily, YouTube, 48:27
11:06pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 16 :MW

Green Party VP nominee contributed essay to book claiming Charlie Hebdo massacre was work of CIA and Mossad… deemed Bashar al-Assad, the dictator of Syria who has murdered hundreds of thousands of his own people, to be a man with democratic legitimacy…

10:59pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 16 :MW
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Animals can be Dangerous

REXBURG, Idaho – A family camping in eastern Idaho scared off a mountain lion that tried to snatch their 4-year-old daughter away from a campfire. …cougar dropped the girl and left Friday evening after family members yelled at the animal. The child had a few scratches but no other injuries.… agency officials tracked the cougar to a tree a few hundred yards from the camp …Sheriff's deputies killed the animal.…

Lucky, lucky little girl
8:46am CDT Mon 2016 Aug 15 :MW
3

Breitbart is Here

Geezer

…On this day in 1057 King Macbeth was killed at the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada. I'm sure you all remember that from school…

Vic reports on news, and history (insert joke here about his having witnessed it first-hand)
8:10am CDT Mon 2016 Aug 15 :MW

Sportsmanship

…Oh, and I think I know what happened to the Rio pools to cause them to turn green and smell like farts. They crossed the streams…

There are two types of pool chemistries, free chlorine based and ozone/hydrogen peroxide based. I've used both in my pool. But you can't mix the chemicals from the two systems. They dumped hydrogen peroxide into a chlorine pool, knocking out all the free chlorine and the algaecide. Then, in desperation, they added copper sulfate to kill the algae, but the peroxide ate that up and made hydrogen sulfide as a by-product (the fart smell). The copper sulfate is also what turned that bleached blond swimmer's white hair blue-green. They musta dumped in a LOT of it.

So, finally, they did the right thing and drained the pool and started over from scratch.…

8:38am CDT Mon 2016 Aug 15 :MW

US Election 2016

Hillary Faced

A series of message within the September 2015 State Department dump of Hillary Clinton e-mails show the Secretary of State of the United States received direct orders over U.S. foreign policy from none other than Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros.…

This is my shocked face
8:52am CDT Mon 2016 Aug 15 :MW
1

End of the World As We Know It

U.S. actor and producer Robert De Niro said on Saturday…

some opinion about politics as if it mattered to anyone with half a brain.
1:28am CDT Sun 2016 Aug 14 :MW
2

Marriage Today

Wedding Rings, Interlocked

…Back in the 1960s, Harvey and Mildred Wosika met while she was working at his brother’s cafe. The couple hit it off and they were married on Aug. 5, 1966.

Together they have a total of 11 children, 35 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren, and three great-great-grandchildren.

Nearly 150 family and friends joined them in their hometown of Newkirk, Oklahoma, to help them celebrate their 50th anniversary last week.…

Harvey got down on one knee, held his wife’s hands, and serenaded her with Bing Crosby’s classic song “Let Me Call You Sweetheart.” Harvey even added some of his own lyrics into the song.…

9:49am CDT Sun 2016 Aug 14 :MW

Animal Companions

Cat, Excited
BIg Kitty is watching you. Funny pix.
2:04am CDT Sun 2016 Aug 14 :MW
3

Breitbart is Here

Kansas couple sues IP mapping firm for turning their life into a “digital hell”…
Now is a really good time to buy a helicopter…
How to Make an Inca Mummy…

News, views, and info links. Roger de Hauteville sitting in for BIrd Dog
10:33am CDT Sun 2016 Aug 14 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

A 27-year-old man caused terror on a train in Switzerland today by pouring out an accelerant, igniting it, and then stabbing six people with a knife. The victims were hospitalized, and so was the perpetrator, who was badly burned. No motive for the attack is yet known, but the attacker is said not to have an immigration background, and has “a normal Swiss name”.

In other news, an imam and his associate were shot to death after leaving a mosque in a Muslim neighborhood of Brooklyn. Local residents characterized the murders as a hate crime.…

News summaries with links
10:20am CDT Sun 2016 Aug 14 :MW
Nightmouse

This 66-Year-Old Woman Is Suing All Gay People—Yes, All of Them…
Briton imprisoned for saying, “I prefer white children”…
French Muslims in Huff Over Burkini Ban…

News summaries with links
10:01am CDT Sun 2016 Aug 14 :MW
Nightmouse

National Security Experts for Destroying America…
Hungary’s war on migration: Now Orban unleashes 3,000 extra cops to defend border…
Why The Media Disinformation Campaign Against Donald Trump Will Fail…

News summaries with links
9:56am CDT Sun 2016 Aug 14 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1935 Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act… One could not live entirely on SS in 1935 and you sure as hell can not do it now. …primary purpose was to get another tax to help fund his socialist programs (like this one)…second primary purpose was to advance the socialist regime of FDR.…

Vic scans the world news and brings it home
8:45am CDT Sun 2016 Aug 14 :MW
3

Defending Ourselves

…a man wielding a large blade entered a Marathon Gas Station in East Ridge, TN around 2 a.m. and demanded money and cigarettes… grabbed a female clerk and forced her to go with him, threatening to kill her. …customer in the parking lot… grabbed a handgun… fired multiple shots, hitting the suspect at least once in the torso. The suspected robber …later died from his wounds.…

Cites Daily Caller.
Hillary would have sympathy with the knife-wielder not the gun-toter.
8:57am CDT Sat 2016 Aug 13 :MW

Breitbart is Here

Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

…The mayor of Cannes has banned the wearing of burkinis on his city’s beaches. He says the Muslim swimwear is a violation of morals and secularism. Human rights groups in France say the mayor has unfairly stigmatized Muslim women, and that his decision plays right into the hands of the Islamic State.

In other news, Bulgaria is concerned that migrants who are being thwarted in their efforts to get into Europe via more westward routes will use the Bulgarian route instead. As a result, the government is building a twenty-mile wall along its border with Turkey.…

News summaries and links
2:31pm CDT Sat 2016 Aug 13 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1942 Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorized the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the Manhattan Project.…

Vic has gathered the news like a bouquet of putrid flowers
8:36am CDT Sat 2016 Aug 13 :MW
1

Wars and Rumors

…Thankfully, someone has figured out why all these rapes are taking place in Sweden. Börje Svensson, a psychotherapist and “an expert on sexual criminals”, was interviewed in one of the biggest Swedish newspapers recently about Sweden’s rape epidemic. His conclusion? The good, hot, summer weather.…

Disinformed, ill-informed, or just stupid?
9:34pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 12 :MW

Digital Threat

Mordor Eye

A mother from Texas was horrified to learn that the cameras she used to keep watch on her 8-year-old girls had been hacked and were being live streamed on the internet.… “We have security cameras to protect them. I feel like I’ve failed. People are watching my kids in their home, dressing, sleeping, playing.” She added that she is not currently allowing her children to use the internet, saying that she “just can’t chance it again.”…

9:31pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 12 :MW
2

Animal Companions

Cat, Excited

…as happy Mama Kitty looks on… crew of Truck 7 of the Sacramento Fire Department reunited a family of cats by rescuing eight kittens from a storm drain on August 5.…

Humans: Doing the rescuing animals can't do (or often wouldn't if they could).
10:58pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 12 :MW
Dog

Stray dog gets adopted after he waits SIX MONTHS outside hotel in Argentina for air stewardess who showed him just a little bit of affection… She eventually arranged for him to be re-homed. But he ranaway and returned to the hotel to wait for her outside the sliding doors.…

Dog knew who he wanted to be with.
10:46pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 12 :MW

A nature photographer in Poland was filmed by a drone when he waded out into thick coastal mud to rescue a stranded white eagle.… video shows the eagle struggle and attack its rescuer, but Chomicz was able to carry the bird of prey to safety.…

In the kingdom of animals, isn't it funny how the only ones that will dive in and rescue trapped fellow creatures are the two-legged naked apes!?!
9:58am CDT Fri 2016 Aug 12 :MW

Now *That's* Funny!

BoB
Posters that show the best of the worst of thoughtlessness.
5:01pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 12 :MW

Man and Woman

Men and Women

…The mother of a 5-year-old transgender girl [i.e., boy she pretends is a girl] in Pearland, Texas, is continuing her fight against the Pearland Independent School District to allow her [son] to use the girls’ bathroom.…

Cites GMA/Yahoo. Strangely, nothing about this mother being referred to family services or the police for her child abuse.
10:22pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 12 :MW
3

Voting Rights

The see-saw battle between "voting rights" advocates and supporters of the voter ID law in Wisconsin has swung back toward voter integrity as an appeals court reversed the ruling of a trial court that severely weakened the provisions of the law.…

10:02pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 12 :MW

Breitbart is Here

Da Tech Guy: JD Rucker – Proof That Conservative Activism Can Work, Even In California…
Jammie Wearing Fools: Canadian SWAT Team Kills Would-Be ISIS Suicide Bomber In Dramatic Raid…
This Ain’t Hell: $20 Million for Art? Pfft. Merely Peanuts…

News and views headline links
10:20pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 12 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

The German government is considering revoking the citizenship of mujahideen who have dual nationality. The interior minister said that “Germans” who travel to Syria to fight in the jihad may lose their German citizenship.

In other news, two bombs exploded in the popular Thai seaside resort of Hua Hin, killing one person and wounding 23 others, including two British tourists. Those wounded by the blasts were relieved when they learned that the incident had nothing to do with Islam. The dead person could not be reached for comment.…

News summaries with links.
10:07pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 12 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

A troubled young man who had declared his support for the Islamic State and planned a major suicide attack was shot to death in a residence in the town of Strathroy, Ontario during a raid by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The incident had nothing to do with Islam. Experts believe that Aaron Driver, 23, was mentally ill, had been bullied in school, and was radicalized suddenly on the Internet. OK, so I made all those up — the only expert is me — but still…

And we haven’t heard Mr. Driver’s other name yet, his jihad name, the one he took after he reverted to Islam. It will be a long time before the Canadian media let that one escape.…

News summaries with links. Catching up on a few missed days.
10:06pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 12 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

Seddique Mateen is the father of Omar Mateen, the young now-deceased culture-enricher who massacred 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando on June 12. The elder Mateen attended a rally for Hillary Clinton in Miami last night and sat just behind the candidate, holding up a sign supporting several of her positions.

In other news, a prominent economist in Germany warns that the Deutsche Bank is heading for insolvency, and must be nationalized.…

News summaries with links. Catching up on a few days missed.
10:04pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 12 :MW

Russian bombers destroy ISIS chemical weapons plant near Raqqa, Syria…
ISIL oil trucks, worth $11 million, destroyed in massive airstrike…
New armed group says it blew up Nigerian oil pipeline…

News headline links. From yesterday, but blogged.
10:00pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 12 :MW

Battle for Syria's Aleppo leaves 2 million without water…
US pledges $37 mn aid for victims of Boko Haram…
Germany: Burka ban to be proposed in security clampdown…

News headline links. Blogged a few days late, but blogged.
9:57pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 12 :MW

No end in sight as anti-IS campaign enters third year…
China determined to battle on two fronts as North Asian tensions spike…
Tensions high amid Russian military buildup in Crimea…

News headline links. A couple of days old, but blogged.
9:55pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 12 :MW
Nightmouse

Confirmed: US Central Command Cooked the Books on ISIS…
Minnesota: Muslim demands use of sharia law, U.S. court rejects…
What Hillary Has In Mind Is Far More Devious Than Abolishing The Second Amendment…

News summaries with links. Blogged at dinnertime, but blogged.
8:41pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 12 :MW
Nightmouse

IS ‘planning to set Iraq’s Tigris river on fire’…
‘It’s NOT safe in Germany anymore’ German family flee to Russia to claim asylum…
North Korea ‘feeding workers crystal meth’ to speed up skyscraper project…

News summaries with links. Blogged a day late, but blogged.
8:39pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 12 :MW
Nightmouse

Peta wants Tasmania’s Eggs and Bacon bay changed to Apple and Cherry bay…
Hillary Ignores First Olympic Medal Winner In Rifle – Heaps Praise On Losing Muslim American In Hijab…
Putin Calls Out Rigged U.S. Democracy: ‘You Actually Believe US Elections are Democratic?’…

News summaries with links. Blogged days late, but blogged.
8:36pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 12 :MW

Sorry for the delay, but a funny thing happened when I was on my way to publish this episode last Friday… I had a heart attack. But I’m back, and as Johnny Winter so eloquently put it— I’m still alive and well. So, I hope you’ll pardon the short summary.

My friend (and identical cousin twice removed) Kevin Jackson of the Blacksphere is my guest for this episode. We always have some fun.

Anyway, Washington DC is up to it’s eyeballs in corruption…..and they ARE the media.…

Video: Vimeo, or YouTube, or Popmodal, 26:14
5:09pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 12 :MW

American Power: Some Democrats See Trump As The New Champion Of “Hope And Change”…
American Thinker: Political Violence – Trump’s 2nd Amendment People Vs. Hillary’s “Activists”…
Joe For America: Will Black Churches Put Trump Over The Top?…

News and views headline links. Almost up-to-today.
4:54pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 12 :MW

EBL: Who Killed Seth Rich?…
Joe For America: Julian Assange Says The DNC Is Adding To The Clinton Body Count…
The Lonely Conservative: Why Shouldn’t We Believe Trump Is A Clinton Plant?…

News and views headline links. Blogged late, better than never.
4:50pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 12 :MW

Adam Piggott: Chronic Truth Aversion Disorder…
Don Surber: This Election Could Wipe Out Democrats…
The Lonely Conservative: Establishment GOP Plots Against Ted Cruz…

News and views headline links. Blogged late, better than never.
4:45pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 12 :MW

A New Study Finds That Men Are Weaker Today Than They Were 30 Years Ago…
Florida Professor Reprimands Students For Using Phrase “Melting Pot” In Class, Claims It’s Racist…
An easy-to-find $15 piece of hardware is all it takes to hack a voting machine…

News, views, and info headline links. From today.
4:41pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 12 :MW

The Last 2 Minutes of the Last Howdy Doody Show…
Public university warns against saying ‘you guys’…
Of Course Hillary Wants to ‘Abolish’ the Second Amendment…

News, views, and info headline links. Blogged better late than never.
4:35pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 12 :MW

A Letter to My Daughter About Young Men…
Something Wonderful: The Jukebox Repairman…
Soy vs. Whey protein…

News, views, and info headline links. Better blogged late than never.
4:32pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 12 :MW
Bookworm

No talk, just picture action (more than 40 brilliant, insightful, and funny pictures)…

Blogged "better late than never"
4:21pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 12 :MW

Life…
George Soros stealth Secretary of State…
About that self-driving car…

Some news links are more worth clicking on than others
9:48am CDT Fri 2016 Aug 12 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1944 retreating Waffen-SS troops massacred 560 men, women, and children, one as young as 20 days, in Sant'Anna di Stazzema, Italy…

Vic's news links, with his views which aren't subtle
9:16am CDT Fri 2016 Aug 12 :MW

US Election 2016

Hillary, Tense

Child rape victim comes forward for the first time in 40 years to call Hillary Clinton a 'liar' who defended her rapist by smearing her, blocking evidence and callously laughing that she knew he was guilty… Now, four decades later, she has agreed to be named and pictured for the first time in this Daily Mail Online exclusive because she is furious that her rapist's defense attorney - Hillary Clinton - has been portraying herself as a lifelong advocate of women and girls on the campaign trail.…

8:44pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 12 :MW
2

History

This “Histomap,” created by John B. Sparks, was first printed by Rand McNally in 1931.…

Huge chart. Links to zoomable version
8:36pm CDT Thu 2016 Aug 11 :MW
3

Breitbart is Here

Glenn Beck, time to put up or shut up (in jail that is)…
Wonder if they will be good as Thin Mints?…
Money is the mother's milk of politics…

All these and more mysterious news headline links
8:44am CDT Thu 2016 Aug 11 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1942 actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil received a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.

Vic's news round-up will square you with the world.
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Blog-heaper note: Light blogging lately as other projects took up my time and I've misplaced the keys to my time machine.
8:20am CDT Thu 2016 Aug 11 :MW
3

Defending Ourselves

Concealed-carry permit holders are nearly the most law-abiding demographic of Americans, a new report by the Crime Prevention Research Center says—comparing the permit holders foremost with police.

“Indeed, it is impossible to think of any other group in the U.S. that is anywhere near as law-abiding…”

10:01am CDT Wed 2016 Aug 10 :MW

Breitbart is Here

Releasing Islamic bad guys never works out…
Who needs another home? Bernie does…
Muslim flight attendant sues for religious reasons…

The news headline links reveal: what's old is news again
9:45am CDT Wed 2016 Aug 10 :MW
Geezer

… On this day in 1977 in Yonkers 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz (Son of Sam) was arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over the period of one year. He shot them with a .44 cal Bulldog revolver.…

Vic gets up early to catch all the newsiest worms. For bait.
9:18am CDT Wed 2016 Aug 10 :MW
3

Breitbart is Here

Nightmouse

UK should monitor population with ‘unique person numbers’…
‘No mistakes are allowed!’ Chinese media voice fury after ‘incorrect’ national flags are used by Rio Olympics…
“It is forbidden in Islam to make peace with the Jews”, says Sheikh Ali Damoh…

News summaries with links
11:00am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 9 :MW

American Power: Iran Executes Nuke Scientist Who Hillary Discussed On Her Home-Brewed, Unsecured Server…
Da Tech Guy: John Ruberry – Dishonest Media peddles False Narrative Against “Baby-Hating” Trump…
Power Line: Trump Touches Minnesota’s Untouchables…

News and views headline links
10:55am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 9 :MW

Why You Should Always Dress Up When You Go Out to Eat…
The civilization of the Mayan Indians…
Study Shows Raising Minimum Wage in Seattle Did Little to Help Workers…

News, views, and info headline links
10:51am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 9 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

The late Algerian mujahid who attacked two policewomen with a machete in Belgium last weekend was supposed to have been deported — twice. None of the news stories says why the deportation failed to occur. Meanwhile, 126 more migrants to Europe landed on the Greek islands of the Aegean.

In other news, the Pakistani Taliban have claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed more than 70 people at a hospital in Quetta.…

News summaries with links
10:36am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 9 :MW

What won't she do for a buck?…
Suck it up Buttercups…
You can't fix Stupid…

Make up your own stories to fit these headline news links, or click to read them, six of one, half a dozen of the other.
8:50am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 9 :MW
Geezer

…On this day one year ago the big story was that another "misunderstood black yoot" was shot and killed by an out of control white cop in Arlington, TX and Obama sent the corrupt DOJ there to stir up shit. What you haven't heard is what happened with all that.…

Vic collects the news and pins it like a butterfly
8:33am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 9 :MW
1

Wars and Rumors

…At least 70 people have been killed in a suicide bombing at a hospital in southwest Pakistan. …Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack which happened shortly after the body of a prominent lawyer killed in a shooting was taken to the hospital. …appeared to target around 150 mourners who had gathered close to the hospital's emergency ward, a spokesman for the regional government said.…

9:15pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 8 :MW
Putin

VLADIMIR PUTIN: “I swear, if they (the Islamic State savages) ever bomb Russia, in half an hour every Muslim will die”…

Don't hold back, Vlad. Tell us how you really feel! (Citing Noscomunicamos.
9:13pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 8 :MW

Digital Threat

Serious security flaws that could give attackers complete access to a phone's data have been found in software used on tens of millions of Android devices. … However, there is no evidence of the vulnerabilities currently being used in attacks by cyberthieves. … "It's always a race as to who finds the bug first, whether it's the good guys or the bad."…

7:54pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 8 :MW

Economic Threat

ChiCom Flag

The wealthy in china are buying houses in the US to have someplace to flee when they see signs of the collapse coming. … It could get very chaotic and the reverberations throughout the world would be quite loud and impossible to ignore. Just the collapse of the flow of manufactured goods be a huge disruption, driving prices through the roof for many common items, never mind high tech stuff, for a long period before other regions could ramp up production to take advantage.…

Food for thought from an Ace commenter
10:11am CDT Mon 2016 Aug 8 :MW
2

Now *That's* Funny!

BoB
Hilarious graphic collection on aging and old-timers.
9:10pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 8 :MW
Saturn

…Because it's funny…

One of those "[x] things we don't know about [something] lists. This video should cue up to 5:00. Just watch 25 seconds after that.
9:05pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 8 :MW

No Greater Love

…“In my heart, I wouldn’t have been able to live with the liver if I had let this little girl die," Jones said. "And I still had more time ... I would have been a very selfish person."…

Both got livers and lived, but the older woman didn't know that would happen when she gave up her "place in line."
10:58am CDT Mon 2016 Aug 8 :MW
3

Breitbart is Here

Fighting for Free Speech on America’s Campuses…
When Black Is Not Enough…
Sen. Tom Cotton: Clinton’s Unprotected Emails Got Iranian Nuclear Scientist Executed…

News and views headline links
7:40pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 8 :MW

Rebel alliance launches 'battle for all of Aleppo'…
Japan urges China not to escalate East China Sea tension…
Android bug fear in 900 million phones…

News headline links
2:31pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 8 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

An Iraqi man ran amok with a knife at the Laajakoski refugee reception center in Kotka, Finland, stabbing two of his fellow inmates before being subdued and detained. Finns were relieved to learn that the incident had nothing to do with Islam, but was caused by the perpetrator’s mental illness.

In other news, former Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt opined that Donald Trump may be dangerous.…

News summaries with links
2:23pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 8 :MW

Prayers going out for my buddy, @JoeDanMedia! Love you friend! Stay the fight! We need you, patriot rock star! --- pic.twitter.com/GvmMKvJBva

— Gina Gentry Loudon (@RealDrGina) August 6, 2016

2:09pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 8 :MW

Hillary Clintoin is evil, vile and despicable…
Inept, our government at work…
Maybe they should…

Who knows what news lurks behind these mysterious links? The clicker knows!
10:49am CDT Mon 2016 Aug 8 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1974 Nixon, in a nationwide television address, announced his resignation from the office effective at noon the next day. Oh how the Democrats chortled with glee. …

Vic herds the top of the news over a cliff, but then uses ever part
10:23am CDT Mon 2016 Aug 8 :MW

US Election 2016

…“Strong source just told me something I suspected. Hillary’s debate ‘bathroom break’ wasn’t that, but flare up of problems from brain injury,” wrote John Cardillo on Twitter.

Cardillo, who previously worked as an officer who provided VIP security details for the New York Police Department (NYPD), told Breitbart News that he knows of two additional sources who have commented about Clinton’s health problems, which have even impacted her ability to walk to her car after delivering a speech.…

I would say as a neurologist having seen many post-concussion syndrome patients that I would not want a president who I knew had post-concussion syndrome being president because their super high-level cognitive abilities are clearly impaired and even their routine multitasking high-stress abilities are affected because post-concussion syndrome patients in general don’t tolerate even moderate work, stress-related environments.…

9:20pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 8 :MW
Hillary Faced

A stunning charge is being leveled that Hillary Clinton’s health is so endangered that she is accompanied by a medic carrying an injection pen with an anti-seizure drug at the ready. And photographs are being presented as evidence of the practice.…

Rumors getting thicker every day
11:19am CDT Mon 2016 Aug 8 :MW
1

Wars and Rumors

…An Israeli cyber intelligence company claims it has hacked ISIS communications and learned about the group’s plans to attack U.S. air bases in Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.

Intsights, which is run by former Israel Defense Forces intelligence officers and based in Herzliya, said Wednesday it had hacked the forum on which ISIS operatives publish terror attack plans…

11:01am CDT Sun 2016 Aug 7 :MW
2

Fire

First We Made Fire! But It May Have Come With Some Downsides.

The link is real. It's not a clever spoof. Although it is hard to believe that even the employees of the gray Lady are this stupid.

4:50pm CDT Sun 2016 Aug 7 :MW

Spiritual Matters

Christian Egyptian-Americans have come under fire for their intention to stage a vigil opposite the White House highlighting the plight of their community in Egypt.

The planned protest, prompted by a string of attacks on Christians, was subject to much social media controversy, leading the Coptic Pope to ask the organizers to cancel it.…

6:06pm CDT Sun 2016 Aug 7 :MW

Lots of people have been asking me how I became a Christian, because I sometimes mention that I'm a former atheist but I usually don't share much of my story. Here's a video explaining why I left atheism and became convinced that Jesus is Lord and that he died on the cross for sins and rose from the dead.…

Video: 34:05
6:04pm CDT Sun 2016 Aug 7 :MW

FRANCE: 2800 more churches across the country, many of them centuries old, are scheduled for demolition… As the number of Frenchmen in France continues to decline due to record-low birth rates and out-of-control Muslim immigration, in many cities, Christians are becoming the minority.…

6:02pm CDT Sun 2016 Aug 7 :MW

Animal Culture

Cat, Excited
Cute collection of pix of wet pets & critters
11:33am CDT Sun 2016 Aug 7 :MW

Man and Woman

Men and Women

The American College of Pediatricians (ACP) has released a position paper denouncing popular approaches to transgender, declaring that the current protocol is founded upon “unscientific gender ideology,” which lacks any basis in real evidence.

The physicians argue that the assumption that gender dysphoria (GD)—a psychological condition in which people experience a marked incongruence between their experienced gender and their biological sex—is innate contradicts all relevant data and is based on ideology rather than science.…

11:35am CDT Sun 2016 Aug 7 :MW

…owing to political correctness, a runner with, reportedly, no womb or ovaries but internal testes will be allowed to compete with women.…

The Olympics are past done and over. This year in Rio is the burial.
11:05am CDT Sun 2016 Aug 7 :MW
3

Breitbart is Here

Political Hat

GOP confidence in Senate majority builds…
ATF forgot to comply with policy, accidentally creating gun owner database…
Wearing “Don’t Tread on Me” insignia could be punishable racial harassment…

Brief news summaries with links
6:08pm CDT Sun 2016 Aug 7 :MW
Nightmouse

BOOM! Wikileaks Confirms Hillary Sold Weapons To ISIS…
Brazil Arrests ‘Defenders of the Shariah’ Terror Cell Ahead of Olympic Games…
Iran could have an operational nuke by 2017 end…

News summaries with links
11:16am CDT Sun 2016 Aug 7 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

A swimming pool in the German town of Hamm has been forced to hire extra security guards due to a huge rise in sex attacks by migrants against native German bathers. There were six sexual assaults during the first three weeks of the pool’s operation this summer.

In other news, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said that this afternoon’s machete attack against two policewomen (by an as yet unidentified and now deceased assailant) may well have been an act of terrorism.…

News summaries and links
11:06am CDT Sun 2016 Aug 7 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1782 George Washington ordered the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It was later renamed to the Purple Heart.…

Vic brings the headlines together and pushes them down the stairs.
9:53am CDT Sun 2016 Aug 7 :MW

US Election 2016

Hillary, Tense

…One of my Last details was for Hillary when she was Secretary of State. She was in Turkey for whatever reason. I helped with sweeps of her DV Quarters and staff vehicles. Her words to me? “Get that Fucking dog away from me.” Then she turns to her Security Detail and berates them up and down about why that animal was in her quarters. For the next 20 minutes while I sit there waiting to be released she lays into her detail, slamming the door in their faces when she’s done. The Detail lead walks over apologizes and releases me. I apologize to him for getting him in trouble. His words “Happens every day, Brother”…

Eric Bonner, Facebook
11:32am CDT Sun 2016 Aug 7 :MW
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WW2 - still with us

Nagasaki Mushroom Cloud

…Soviet Union researchers captured the harrowing footage of the flattened Japanese cities around a month after the US bombings took place.

The black-and-white video, which is around five minutes in length, was presented to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in June this year by the chairman of the Russian State Duma, Sergei Naryshkin. …

Citing Daily Mail.
Video: Timeone News, YouTube, 3:10
1:51am CDT Sat 2016 Aug 6 :MW

Natural Threat

Sun

…Some telegraph stations that used chemicals to mark sheets reported that powerful surges caused telegraph paper to combust.… When American Telegraph Company employees arrived at their Boston office at 8 a.m., they discovered it was impossible to transmit or receive dispatches. The atmosphere was so charged, however, that operators made an incredible discovery: They could unplug their batteries and still transmit messages to Portland, Maine, at 30- to 90-second intervals using only the auroral current. Messages still couldn’t be sent as seamlessly as under normal conditions, but it was a useful workaround. …

The consequences of the 1859 solar attack on the planet. The cost today would be incalculable (although the article puts it at $1- to $3 trillion.
10:28am CDT Sat 2016 Aug 6 :MW
2

Now *That's* Funny!

BoB
Poster pix by Bluebird
1:53am CDT Sat 2016 Aug 6 :MW

Future is Now

Stuart McMillen’s webcomic does a marvelous job of adapting (and updating!) Neil Postman’s famous book-length essay, Amusing Ourselves to Death, which argues that Aldous Huxley’s vision of the future in Brave New World was ultimately more accurate than the one proposed by George Orwell in 1984.

11:13am CDT Sat 2016 Aug 6 :MW
3

Breitbart is Here

Nightmouse

Sheriff David Clarke: Hillary Clinton a ‘Morally Bankrupt,’ ‘Pathological Liar’ — ‘Her Ethical Elevator Has No Bottom Floor’…
The 47 Clinton Friends Who Mysteriously Turned Up Dead…
Hillary’s America: The Secret History Of The Democratic Party…

News and views headline links
11:59am CDT Sat 2016 Aug 6 :MW

How do you come to terms with the fact that you're just ordinary?…
The Black Hole of San Francisco…
The alphabet is sexist…

News and views headline links
11:56am CDT Sat 2016 Aug 6 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

Six men were arrested in Indonesia for plotting to launch a rocket attack against Singapore from an island near the city-state. No motive for the planned deed has yet been determined, but it is certain that the incident had nothing to do with Islam. Perhaps the men were lone wolves who were mentally ill, suffered from anomie, felt marginalized, and were bullied in school. And they may have been suddenly radicalized online.

In other news, Black Lives Matter protesters blocked the motorway route into Heathrow Airport and caused other disruptions in cities across England.…

News summaries and links
1:48am CDT Sat 2016 Aug 6 :MW

Michelle Malkin: Stop The Insanity, Terror Apologists – It’s The Jihad, Stupid!…
Don Surber: A Vote For Hillary Is A Vote For Allah…
Power Line: Government Says Wearing Gadsden Flag Might Be Unlawful Racial Harassment…

News and views headline links
1:45am CDT Sat 2016 Aug 6 :MW

Al Jazeera: Obama: ISIL still a threat despite coalition gains…
Indonesian police: plot foiled to fire rocket at Singapore…
White House on track to bring in 10,000 Syrian refugees…

News headline links
1:44am CDT Sat 2016 Aug 6 :MW

Being overweight makes brain '10 years older' than if you are slim…
Researcher Says Government Is Racist For Recommending Milk…
Hamas 'infiltrated int'l Gazan aid group,' stole tens of millions of dollars…

News and views headline links
1:41am CDT Sat 2016 Aug 6 :MW

Twitchy: Ain’t It Cute When Democrats Like Elizabeth Warren Pretend To Care About The Constitution?…
Joe For America: 15,000 At Trump Rally Missed By The Media…
This Ain’t Hell: DNC Resurrects Ku Klux Klan…

News and views headline links
1:38am CDT Sat 2016 Aug 6 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

According to the latest reports, the youngster who went on a stabbing spree in London yesterday is a “Norwegian”. Mainstream media outlets breathed a collective sigh of relief at being able to put that in their headlines. It’s only when you read down a ways that you discover the murderous youth was “of Somali origin”. However, since it has emerged that he is mentally ill, we know that his actions had nothing to do with Islam. He’s just a Norwegian loony, like Anders Behring Breivik. Except, of course, that we can’t figure out a motive for his attack — that will probably take months. He’s just a Viking berserker with an unusually dark suntan.

In other news, according to the Archbishop of Rouen, the last words of the priest who was halal-slaughtered in the church in Normandy were: “Be gone, Satan!” Surely he couldn’t possibly have been directing such hateful words at the misguided Algerian youth with the knife. Maybe he was talking to one of the nuns.…

News summaries and links
1:35am CDT Sat 2016 Aug 6 :MW

US Election 2016

Trump, smiling

Looky, Looky, Trump was right about seeing a video of Iran money drop from Obama… Somebody owes Trump an apology. It'll never come, he's crazy and stupid and everyone else is sane and smart.…

1:34am CDT Sat 2016 Aug 6 :MW
Hillary

…“I hope you will compare what I’m proposing to what my husb — my opponent is talking about…”

Donald, Bill, one of those guys.
1:32am CDT Sat 2016 Aug 6 :MW
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Wars and Rumors

Crazyface

This is part of the list of Islamic terror attacks maintained by TheReligionofPeace.com.

During this time period, there were 133 Islamic attacks in 20 countries, in which 1087 people were killed and 1751 injured.…

And the beat goes on…
9:17pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 5 :MW

Scary Times

…secret group of fewer than 10 people — formed in April 2014 in North Dakota, Texas and Michigan — discovered that getting a license and then ordering enough materials to make a dirty bomb was strikingly simple in one of their three tries. Sellers were preparing shipments that together were enough to poison a city center when the operation was shut down.

The team’s members could have been anyone — a terrorist outfit, emissaries of a rival government, domestic extremists. In fact, they were undercover bureaucrats with the investigative arm of Congress.…

9:16pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 5 :MW

Obamanomics

…25,984,000 foreign-born people had a job in the U.S. last month, up 133,000 compared to the previous record set in June…

9:59pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 5 :MW

The number of Americans not in the labor force declined but still topped 94 million last month

9:58pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 5 :MW
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Beatles - still with us

Beatles - Help

…Revolver, released August 5th, 1966 – was the band's biggest musical watershed. Never had the Beatles emerged with such a brace of high-quality songs. Never had Paul McCartney written so well. John Lennon wasn't far behind. Never had a band enmeshed itself so thoroughly with studio wizardry. Never, simply, had a musical collective done so much to change the very concept of how sound could be produced, at the level of sheer fun, and the level of full-on art..…

Well, Rubber Soul was pretty good, too.
9:26pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 5 :MW

Animal Companions

Dog

…he lost his footing on some moving tree trunks and slipped into a ravine.

Luckily for Juan, a dog that he had met only a few hours before named Max, was close behind.

For the 44 hours that the boy was trapped in the canyon, Max refused to leave his side – the two cuddled together at night for warmth and the canine even lead Juan to water so they could rehydrate.

By the time Juan was rescued, he was suffering from exhaustion and dehydration but was otherwise unharmed.…

3:59pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 5 :MW

Long Underwear Heroes are Dead

Superman

A rare copy of Superman's 1938 comic-book debut sold at auction for almost $1 million.…

9:40pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 5 :MW

Digital Business

Ace of Spades

Goodbye

Nothing lasts forever. All good things come to an end.

And so this will be my final ONT.…

The outpouring of appreciation in the comments is appropriately astonishing.
11:02am CDT Fri 2016 Aug 5 :MW

Science Marches Onnnnnn

In 1960, scientists with the poultry research branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that they had successfully created a chicken-turkey hybrid. They called the new bird a "churk."…
…They suffered from mental retardation… They were mostly silent… feathers grew twisted.… crooked legs or beaks…

Should have tried for a Turducken
9:52pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 5 :MW

Now *That's* Funny!

The bluebird gathers up some funny rodents
10:02pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 5 :MW

People Live

Star Bright

…“Everyone was determined they weren’t going to let go of that lady for any reason.”…

11:54am CDT Fri 2016 Aug 5 :MW

Sex and Politics

…The reality is that race and sex/gender are social constructs. The atom is a social construct. Matter and energy are social constructs. Cities are social constructs. Everything is a social construct, as we look through the glass darkly. But social constructs operate on various levels of clarity and distinctiveness and exhibit different levels of pliability and utility. Dalton’s atomic model is profoundly wrong. It has long been superseded by quantum physical models, which have the utility of making correct predictions, whatever their correspondence to reality on a metaphysical level might be. But the Daltonian model is still often implicitly the one introduced to children to allow them to gain some intuition as to the nature of how matter is constituted. In contrast, the metaphysical ideas of the ancients as to the material nature of the universe are both wrong, and, lacking in utility.

All models are wrong, but there are still superior and inferior models. Their measure is in how they correspond to, and predict, reality. Not how they correspond to our ethical judgements of how the universe should be.…

12:21pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 5 :MJ
3

Breitbart is Here

Nightmouse

Hillary fears Trump ‘having his finger on the nuclear button’…
Establishment Media Smear Campaign to Declare Trump “Mentally Unfit” to be President…
UN Backs Secret Obama Takeover of Police…

News summaries with links
9:55pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 5 :MW

Our country has jumped the shark…
Liars gotta lie…
Power tends to corrupt…

Play guess-the-news with these mystery headline links
11:49am CDT Fri 2016 Aug 5 :MW
Geezer

…One year ago today the big news was "The FBI has begun an investigation of Scankles' computer". My question with that headline link was "Will Scankles finally be held accountable?" Most of us thought she would finally be taken down and she would not be the inevitable nominee as the MFM was pushing. But Moron Case was the first one to note that, like Clintons all the time, she would get by it. And she did, the FBI and the DOJ had both been corrupted.…

Vic casts his net and hauls in all the eels and bottom-feeders
10:59am CDT Fri 2016 Aug 5 :MW

Sportsmanship

Just when most Olympic athletes and coaches realize that circumstances surrounding the Rio Games couldn’t get more dangerous and disgusting, on Friday Olympic officials offered a coup de grâce by losing the keys to the Maracana, the site of the opening ceremonies.

Friday, firefighters arrived at the venue’s main entrance with bolt cutters…

11:46pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 5 :MW

US Election 2016

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said she may have “short circuited” during her response on her emails in an interview with Fox News reporter Chris Wallace.… “I may have short short-circuited it and for that I will try to clarify,”…

Hillarybot experimental AI doesn't even know what short circuit means.
9:57pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 5 :MW
Hillary Guzzling

Hillary Clinton took aim at Donald Trump and his children at a rally in Las Vegas, Nevada, saying they "killed a lot of animals" in response to animal rights protesters who were heckling her.…

But Trump never left an ambassador and others to die.
9:46pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 5 :MW

ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS DEATH=> Activist and Sanders Supporter Who Served Papers to DNC on Fraud Case Found Dead…

The bodies pile up
3:56pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 5 :MW

Early 20th century modernism ignored classical rules of expression. But late 20th century postmodernism blew up those rules altogether.…

Hillary Clinton has taken huge quid-pro-quo contributions from rich people as she damns the influence of big money in politics. Trump cannot seem to find any big donors. He trashes crony capitalist insiders on the grounds that he used to be one himself.

Traditional politicians such as Mitt Romney were perfectly groomed and rarely appeared without tailored suits. Modernist politicians such as Obama like to be photographed on the golf links appearing young, hip and cool, wearing shades and polo shirts.

But Trump defies both traditional and nontraditional tastes by wearing loud, long ties, combing his dyed-yellow hair over a bald spot, and tanning his skin a strange orange hue.…

If most politicians are going to deceive, voters apparently prefer raw and uncooked deception rather than the usual seasoned and spiced dishonesty.

Will Trump fade in August, implode in September, self-destruct in October -- or win in November?

No one knows. There are no longer rules to predict how a fed-up public will vote. And there has never been a postmodern candidate like Donald J. Trump.

2:35pm CDT Fri 2016 Aug 5 :MJ
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Disturbing Family Patterns

An Ottawa-area woman is appealing an Ontario Human Rights Tribunal ruling that Mount Sinai Hospital did not discriminate against her when it refused last May to abort one of her healthy twins.…

4:39pm CDT Thu 2016 Aug 4 :MW

Our Brother's Keeper?

…Israel is the last hope for Arab Christians; it’s as simple as that. America is not leading on the refugee issue, especially for Iraqi Christians. Yet helping them, doing good to the Christians in the Arab world, would require Israel overcoming her neighbors’ anti-Semitism, even of those Christians who will not ask for help because of their prejudices.

Arab Christians in America and abroad feel caught between Muslim interests on one side and Israeli interests on the other. They are bitter. They are a weak minority, always overlooked. Arab Christians have no power to negotiate or threaten, no money to buy arms, and no land to cultivate and build. Their bitterness makes them miss an important ally: Israel. As the genocide of Middle Eastern Christians continues, the only hope of an Arab Christian remnant—a remnant that would keep and pass on its beliefs, traditions, and customs—is through help from the state of Israel. It is the humanitarian thing to do….

6:37pm CDT Thu 2016 Aug 4 :MJ
3

Breitbart is Here

Nightmouse

DNC Wikileaks Scandal Continues: Three More Top Officials Resign…
Traitors! RNC pushing Trump to quit…
Terrifying scenes as 40 people are injured in beer festival stampede after someone shouts ‘ISIS’ for joke…

News summaries and links
4:38pm CDT Thu 2016 Aug 4 :MW

Surprise: Most “Refugees” In Europe Are Not Women And Children…
If the Democrats nominated a left-wing Trump, liberals would totally vote for him…
We are not alone in calling out the anti-Trump press…

News and views headline links
4:22pm CDT Thu 2016 Aug 4 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

A fight broke out among inmates of an asylum center in the German city of Dortmund. Migrants at the center were seen beating each other with chairs. Three of the “refugees” were arrested, and five others are being treated for their injuries.

In other news, French President François Hollande said that the U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump makes him “want to retch”.…

News summaries and links
4:18pm CDT Thu 2016 Aug 4 :MW

Newsweek: Aleppo Siege Continues With Chemical Gas Attacks and Relentless Air Strikes…
North Korea hopes to plant flag on the moon…
Obama declares himself a 'feminist'…

Or, did Obama say he is effeminate?
-- news headline links
4:17pm CDT Thu 2016 Aug 4 :MW

Hillary Clinton dirty as the wind driven sewage…
I'm guessing a casino wasn't lucrative enough…
Time to UNEXIT…

Follow the mystery links to find the news
10:06am CDT Thu 2016 Aug 4 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1892 Lizzy Borden took an ax and gave her mother 40 whacks. Then she gave her father 41. The father and stepmother were found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home and she was the prime suspect. But she was acquitted and no other suspect was ever tried.…

Vic's morning report and comments to kick-start the day
9:30am CDT Thu 2016 Aug 4 :MW

US Election 2016

Donald Trump is a successful businessman and a teetotaler who is undoubtedly bombastic and vulgar. None of those are traits of mental illness, either ideopathic or because of an injury, or of addiction. Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, has been showing genuinely strange behaviors on the campaign trail — weird, extreme head and eye movements; uncontrolled laughter; uncontrolled coughing; a bizarrely long break during a debate; barking like a dog; and, of course, throughout her career, a continued lack of ordinary, human empathy.…

4:25pm CDT Thu 2016 Aug 4 :MW
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Obamanation

I nearly shit a brick when I learned about the report that Barack Obama paid a ransom of four hundred million dollars to get our Americans released by Iran.… This was done by the man who just yesterday arrogantly declared Donald Trump unfit to be President and Commander-in-Chief.

Yeah. Okay.…

4:07pm CDT Wed 2016 Aug 3 :MW

Wars and Rumors

One woman has been killed and up to six people have been injured after a man with a knife reportedly attacked people in the busy area of Bloomsbury in Central London. …just before 10:30pm on Wednesday night. Police were called to the scene and tasered one individual before making an arrest.… terrorism is being investigated as a motive…

11:19pm CDT Wed 2016 Aug 3 :MW

A jailhouse interview with a German man who joined the Islamic State reveals the workings of a unit whose lieutenants are empowered to plan attacks around the world.… members of the Islamic State’s secret service… came to inform him and his German friend that they no longer wanted Europeans to come to Syria. Where they were really needed was back home, to help carry out the group’s plan of waging terrorism across the globe. "…they have loads of people living in European countries and waiting for commands to attack the European people…”

Citing NY Times
4:12pm CDT Wed 2016 Aug 3 :MW

Disinformation Propaganda and Spin

…A Palestinian father, in front of a professional Palestinian videographer, pushed his young child towards Israeli Border Police, yelled at the son to throw rocks (which he did in a childish way), and then taunted the police to shoot the child… Palestinian television then promoted the video, but left out a crucial piece where the border policeman and the child exchange a “high five”…

11:22pm CDT Wed 2016 Aug 3 :MW

Big Whoops Cascade

During the stop, an officer noticed a "rock like substance" on the floor board of Rushing's car.
"I recognized, through my eleven years of training and experience as a law enforcement officer, the substance to be some sort of narcotic," the report said.… two separate field tests were performed and both came back positive for the presence of amphetamines… "I kept telling them, 'That's … glaze from a doughnut. … They tried to say it was crack cocaine at first, then they said, 'No, it's meth, crystal meth,'" he told the newspaper.…

10:20am CDT Wed 2016 Aug 3 :MW
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Repeal! Repeal! Repeal!

Hemp

Aug 3, 2016 – Last week, Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner signed a bill into law decriminalizing marijuana for adults and changing criminal penalties into civil infractions. The proposal not only decriminalizes marijuana in the Prairie State, it also takes a step toward nullifying federal cannabis prohibition in practice in Illinois.…

3:53pm CDT Wed 2016 Aug 3 :MW

Headline of the Day

Trump’s ‘Excesses’ Are Sickening Says Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey Whose Streets Are Regularly Bathed In Citizen’s Blood

No, c'mon, tell us how you really feel.
10:09am CDT Wed 2016 Aug 3 :MW
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US Military

…The U.S. Air Force… arguing that the F-35A can perform close air support as well as the A-10 Warthog can do, is now claiming it cannot afford the A-10s because it needs the money to support the forthcoming F-35A…

WNU Editor: Words escape me.
4:04pm CDT Wed 2016 Aug 3 :MW

Breitbart is Here

Michelle Malkin: Not All US Muslim Soldiers Are Equal…
Power Line: Black Lives Matter – From A Lie To A Revolution…
Quinton Report: Baltimore – #10 Most Liberal City…

News and views headline links
11:17pm CDT Wed 2016 Aug 3 :MW

Obama admin denies $400M payment to Iran was ransom for hostages…
N. Korea fires mid-range missile toward waters near Japan…
Pope establishes commission to study female leadership in Church…

News headline links
3:59pm CDT Wed 2016 Aug 3 :MW

Academic Absurdity of the Week: Sexist Ski Slopes?…
Tax meat until it’s too expensive to eat, new UN report suggests…
US Marines Train Together with Israeli Navy to Fight ISIS…

News and views headline links
10:26am CDT Wed 2016 Aug 3 :MW

Czech President Milos Zeman wants a total ban on refugees so that his country will not fall victim to “barbaric” acts like those that have taken place recently in Germany and France. He also says his countrymen should acquire firearms so that they can defend themselves in the event of a terrorist attack.

In other news, President Obama said that Donald Trump is unfit to be president, and advised Republicans to withdraw their support for their party’s nominee.…

News summaries with links
10:10am CDT Wed 2016 Aug 3 :MW

Our government is nuts…
It's only money…
Cops, damned if you do, damned if you don't…

Generic headlines link to actual current stories
8:49am CDT Wed 2016 Aug 3 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1852 the first American intercollegiate athletic event took place between Harvard and Yale. It was a boat race and Harvard won.…

Vic serves up the morning news with acerbic sauce
8:34am CDT Wed 2016 Aug 3 :MW
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Wars and Rumors

A 21-year-old civil engineering student from the West Bank’s Hebron University attempted to carry out a mass-casualty bombing attack on Jerusalem’s light rail last month to exact revenge for Jewish visitation to the Temple Mount, police said on Tuesday.…

12:38pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 2 :MW

Know the Enemy

Crazyface

The Islamic State terror group has come out publicly to reject Pope Francis’ claims that the war being waged by Islamic terrorists is not religious in nature, assuring the pontiff that their sole motivation is religious and sanctioned by Allah in the Qur’an.…

1:21pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 2 :MW

Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean told Breitbart News that “Iran is the farthest thing from an Islamic Republic” and that Iran is not “a Muslim country.”…

Another Dean scream.
1:32am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 2 :MW

End of the World As We Know It

Actor Will Smith…

Is just an actor - who cares what he thinks?
7:28pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 2 :MW
2

Animal Companions

Dog

…Two women were walking near the home… heard glass break and a dog barking loudly… women called police… officers then entered the home, where they found the resident unconscious.… dog suffered a minor injury to a front paw… woman remained in the intensive care unit of a local hospital on Monday.

9:46am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 2 :MW

Anthropology

…This intellectual revolution has infected anthropology (among many fields) with a dangerous, self-contradictory nihilism that rejects the possibility of objective Truth toward which we may move and posits many different truths held by different peoples — all equally valid. Yet they behave as if their belief in many truths must be treated as The Truth that must not be questioned.

Anthropologists insist on the relativity of knowledge, except when it comes to their own statements, which they take to be The Absolute Truth.…

1:18pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 2 :MW

Solar System

An asteroid set to narrowly miss Earth could cause 'immense suffering and death' years later if its orbit is changed when it passes dangerously near to our planet. …called Bennu…crosses Earth's orbit once every six years… set to pass between the moon and our planet in 2135.

Scientists are worried the 500-metre wide asteroid's orbit could be tweaked by Earth's gravity as it passes by, causing it to smash into our planet later in the century.…

9:43am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 2 :MW
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Human Right

…Hillary Clinton: “My view has always been, this is a choice, it is not a mandate. The unborn person doesn’t have Constitutional rights.…"

Like Hillary gives a fig about the Constitution in any aspect…!
1:28am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 2 :MW

Healthier Humans

It's one of the most universal recommendations in all of public health: Floss daily to prevent gum disease and cavities.

Except there's little proof that flossing works.…

One study review in 2011 did credit floss with a slight reduction in gum inflammation… However, the reviewers ranked the evidence as "very unreliable.…"

7:00pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 2 :MW

Breitbart is Here

Rescuers say toxic gas dropped on Syrian town where Russian helicopter shot down…
Twin suicide bombings kill 6 Yemeni soldiers…
U.S. warplanes launch bombing campaign on Islamic State in Libya…

News headline links
6:56pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 2 :MW
Bookworm

I’m tired, really tired, after a two-day marathon to get a complaint into bankruptcy court. I’ll therefore strive for brevity in this round-up, relying more on quotations from the posts I’m highlighting than on my own commentary.…

12:46pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 2 :MW

How archaeologists found the lost medieval megacity of Angkor…
The TSA: A Monument to government Idiocy…
Mike Pence shows how it’s done in response to a question about Trump and the Khan family…

News and views headline links
10:58am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 2 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

The Italian coast guard has rescued 6,000 would-be migrants in the Mediterranean Sea since last Thursday. Meanwhile, Hungarian authorities apprehended more than 200 people who attempted to cross the border from Serbia over the weekend. Also, Serbia arrested eleven people for smuggling immigrants into Hungary.

In other news, Pope Francis decried those who would equate Islam with terrorism.…

News summaries with links
10:50am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 2 :MW

Nightmouse is in hospital, no word on a diagnosis yet.

10:43am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 2 :MW

Warren Buffet pulled the “have you no decency?” card on Trump re Khizzy Khan. Color me unimpressed…

… I’ll lead with the posters showing media bias…

10:24am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 2 :MW

That will show them. Not.…
"Very troubling". Russians are shaking.…
E.U. membership sure is expensive…

The art of obliquity in news headline links
10:11am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 2 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1923 Vice President Calvin Coolidge became President after the death of Warren G. Harding. He was elected on his own in 1924. Silent Cal he was called and he was the best President we have had in the modern era. He reduced taxes and government and was probably the last President to ever do so. And as a result the nation's economy boomed. Reagan reduced taxes and tried to reduce government but was blocked by Democrats in congress and some of his own RINO Party. And just about everything he did was undone by the Democrats in congress and Bush. …

Viic's take on the world is inspiring even when the news is not
9:22am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 2 :MW

Michelle Malkin: Check Out The Raging, Glaring Hypocrisy Of Open-Borders Dems…
Dustbury: In Lieu Of Actual Life…
Lonely Conservative: The Bright Side Of Having No TV…

News and views headline inks
1:30am CDT Tue 2016 Aug 2 :MW

US Election 2016

Trump, Angry

What’s the latest Trump EVIL ACT that convinces #NeverTrump that they are doing the right thing by allowing Hillary to become president?

He KICKED A CRYING BABY OUT OF HIS RALLY!!!!!!!!!

Here’s the video of what happened.…

7:34pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 2 :MW

Prolific author, AMERICAN FREE PRESS writer and seasoned Clinton researcher Victor Thorn was found at the top of a mountain near his home, the apparent victim of a gunshot wound. Family and some close friends contend Thorn took his own life on his birthday, August 1. Thorn would have been 54.…

Another Arkancide? Of course, researching the Clintons might make one suicidal.
7:03pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 2 :MW

Donald Trump tweeted a picture of himself eating Kentucky Fried Chicken with a knife and a fork Monday, and his decision to use silverware prompted jokes and mocking from Twitter users.…

This is the worst they've got on him? Thank goodness it wasn't pizza!
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They never made this big a fuss over Obama eating dog!
1:24pm CDT Tue 2016 Aug 2 :MW
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Know the Enemy

Pope Francis has said he will not label Islam as ‘terrorism’ because it would be unfair …
And here’s Dabiq Issue 15 Aptly entitled “Break The Cross”…

9:42pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 1 :MW

Not long after 9/11, one of the smartest men I know told me that, when it comes to Islam’s battle with the West, “it’s all about control over women and access to sex.” That’s a simplification for an existential war that involves fundamental beliefs, rather than mere land borders, but I think he’s on to something.…

9:35pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 1 :MW

…entered a mosque…

Editorial cartoon
1:15pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 1 :MW

…the Pope said that every day when he browses the newspapers, he sees violence in Italy perpetrated by Christians: “this one who has murdered his girlfriend, another who has murdered the mother-in-law… and these are baptized Catholics! There are violent Catholics!”

Let me know when Catholics are killing girlfriends shouting “Jesus is the greatest…”

Or where in the Bible it says that's okay to do.
1:13pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 1 :MW
2

Oh! The Irony!

Lobster

A 15-pound lobster that activists “rescued” from a Florida restaurant last week died during its 1,600-mile journey to Maine State Aquarium.…

9:46pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 1 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

That took some brass ones…
Left nibbles on left. Can't wait until left eats left…
Anyone eat cookie dough over the weekend?…

Oops. Forgot to blog this morning's headline news links.
9:27pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 1 :MW

Why Verizon wants an ailing Yahoo…
'Green Lives Matter' college course title has some critics seeing red…
Washington Post: Hillary Clinton is an inveterate liar…

News and views headline links
1:20pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 1 :MW

Syria's civil war: Rebels push to break Aleppo siege…
Taliban claim Kabul bomb attack on compound used by foreigners…
Top Nigerian scammer arrested…

News headline links
1:08pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 1 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

Indian nationals who have been laid off but remain in Saudi Arabia are facing a food crisis. The recent drop in oil prices has caused the Saudi government to cut back on many projects, leaving foreign workers stranded. The local Indian community in Saudi Arabia, with the help of the Indian government, is working to get donated food to people in desperate need.

In other news, two more “Frenchmen” have been arrested in connection with last week’s halal slaughter of a priest in a church in Normandy.…

News summaries and links
1:02pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 1 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1981 MTV began broadcasting in the United States and aired its first video, "Video Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles. MTV is now just another shit reality show. And yes, video did kill the radio star and rock music for that matter, especially female music stars. Hawt babe became the draw rather than music talent.…

A new month begins with Vic's links to the same old same old.
11:09am CDT Mon 2016 Aug 1 :MW

US Election 2016

Sleazeball Paki Muslim lawyer Khizr Khan, who Democrats bought off to bash Donald Trump, made his money by selling U.S. citizenship to Muslims…

9:44pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 1 :MW
Hillary, Tense

Hillary Clinton tells Fox News Sunday she is “not looking to repeal the Second Amendment,” but she does intend to regulate it.…

The phrase "shall not be infringed" is not in her vocabulary.
9:37pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 1 :MW

…Khan was perfectly positioned to fire at will without any concern that he would take incoming return fire.

Any other election season, the formula would have worked. Against Mitt Romney or John McCain, deploying the electoral version of The Wrath of Khan would have been a success.…

There’s just one problem. Donald Trump isn’t Mitt Romney or Jeb Bush.…

1:23pm CDT Mon 2016 Aug 1 :MW