Blog Heap of Links for the day 11 July 2018

…Here are 14 times Trump administration officials and Republican lawmakers have been threatened or run out of establishments recently…

Former Republican Congressional Candidate denied an Airbnb booking… the owner saying he thought Cheadle's political viewpoints oppose his lifestyle.…

…Some of you may have seen that Gal Gidot (Wonder Woman) did a surprise visit to a hospital in NoVa this past week. It's been all over the news, Entertainment Tonight, ect. The baby with the ladybug sticker on her cheek that she's holding is my niece Karalyne, the one who is in the prayer list for her infant leukemia. The good news is she is also responding well to treatment, at the last report she is waiting for her neutrophil counts to come up so she can have her bone marrow transplant and finally be done with all of this.

Thank you one and all for the prayers.…

…As Aug. 25th approaches I’m reminded of the time 68 years ago when life in Bartlesville stood still, frozen in time, an event which only a few people left alive still remember.… Along Cherokee Avenue 2,000 Boy Scouts lined the road, all in uniform. The creation of 500 floral displays along with arrangements of 3,000 red and yellow roses kept florists from every town the area working around the clock.…

…The truth is, colleges and universities never had a monopoly on knowledge.

But in this era where information is at our fingertips, they’re nothing more than relics of the past.

Going to college is like continuing to wear chain mail and a suit of armor in the era of Kevlar.

So skip college.…

Sgt. Major Saman Gunan wasn't abiding by any orders when he joined the effort to rescue a boys soccer team trapped in a cave in northern Thailand. The 38-year-old retired Thai Navy SEAL did so by choice.

Gunan, who was working as a volunteer, passed out underwater during an overnight mission placing extra air tanks inside the cave, along the route divers use to reach the cavern where the 12 boys and their coach remain stranded and the oxygen in the air is depleting. He couldn't be revived and was confirmed dead early Friday morning, according to Thai officials.…

…On this day in 1804 the infamous duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton occurred. After the death of Hamilton, for which Burr was never prosecuted even though dueling was illegal at the time, Burr went West and became involved in a plot to drum up war with Spain. He was charged with treason for that but thanks to the efforts of John Adams who hated Jefferson at the time he was exonerated.

…there is almost universal praise for Brett Kavanaugh from the majority of conservative and GOP quarters while blood is shooting out of every orifice of the Left.…

…The first lady wore a $7,450 Elie Saab white patterned dress…