Blog Heap of Links for the day 11 October 2018

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Spacecraft

…two-man U.S.-Russian crew of a Soyuz spacecraft en route to the International Space Station was forced to make a dramatic emergency landing in Kazakhstan on Thursday when their rocket failed in mid-air. U.S. astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin landed safely without harm… made what NASA called a steep ballistic descent to Earth… Moscow immediately suspended all manned space launches… Footage from inside the Soyuz had shown the two men being shaken around at the moment the failure occurred, with their arms and legs flailing. Ovchinin, the Russian cosmonaut, can be heard saying: “That was a quick flight.”…

2:54pm CDT Thu 2018 Oct 11 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Geezer

…On this day in 1767 surveying for the Mason-Dixon line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania was completed. This border between MD and PA later became the defacto border between the Northern States and the South. I would say that demarcation should shift South a great deal and include the Eastern 1/3 of VA in the North now.

Vic's got links and thoughts about them, starting here.
1:01pm CDT Thu 2018 Oct 11 :MW
Ace of Spades

…The big story and one that is the now as yet non-orchestrated but growing campaign of political terror aimed at the enemies of the Democrat-Left-Media complex and its constituents.…

JJ reads everything, and brings the best to us. Quite a job!
9:41am CDT Thu 2018 Oct 11 :MW