Blog Heap of Links for the day 20 February 2018

…A Senate bill, which would adopt Daylight Saving Time as Oklahoma’s year-round standard time, has passed a Senate committee.…

…a student from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida… Brandon Minoff… "I think it’s the media," Minoff said, referring to whom he believes is promoting the gun control narrative in response to the shooting. "They exploit everything to make it political. They’re more concerned about gun control at this moment rather than the fact that there were 17 people that were killed."…

CBS News is peddling …the claim that it’s easier to buy an “assault rifle” than it is to buy cold medicine in the state of Florida.…

French Children Taught Migration Is a Human Right, ‘We’re All Africans’

CNN’s Vinograd: Trump ‘Not Fulfilling His Job’ – ‘So Focused on His Own Narcissism’ That He Won’t Respond to Russia

In the wake of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, last week that claimed the lives of 17 and wounded 15 more, several movements are springing up. All of them have teenagers as the leaders of the groups. But those aren’t the true instigators… the organizers. The same radicals behind the Women’s Marches are behind these groups and they are rabidly anti-gun, anti-NRA and anti-President Trump.…

A new swarm of earthquakes has cropped up at the Yellowstone supervolcano, with more than 200 small temblors detected in the last 10 days alone. …But for now, scientists say there’s no reason to worry.…

…a dangerous concoction of drug needles, garbage, and feces lining the streets of downtown San Francisco. The Investigative Unit surveyed more than 150 blocks, including some of the city’s top tourist destinations, and discovered conditions that are now being compared to some of the worst slums in the world.…

'Lord of the Rings' Fans Attempt to Eat the Meals Depicted in the Films

…Turning policy decisions over to Tide-pod-eating, ultimatum-issuing, lie-on-the-sidewalk-to-get-our-way children would be laughable if it wasn’t so insane.…

The Forgotten History of New York’s Bagel Famines - Remembering Local 338 and the world’s toughest bagel bakers.
100 Chicago Professors "Propose To Exclude Viewpoints They Find Objectionable"
Government Spending on Higher Education Reaches an All-Time High…
Once again, climate scientists use a single tree to define global change…
San Francisco's Diseased Streets…

…On this day in 1933 the Congress of the United States proposed the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution that would end Prohibition in the United States on ratification. 'Proposed' means that 2/3 of both houses voted for the new amendment.

…Let's dive right in. The politicization of the massacre in Florida as a pretext to disarm the American citizenry proceeds as per the usual script, but this time the diatribes are more shrill than ever, if that's possible. The reason, as with most everything hurled at us via the Media lo these past many months boils down to pretty much one thing - Donald Trump.…