Blog Heap of Links for the day 3 September 2011

With the unveiling of the Nissan Leaf, a 100 percent battery-operated vehicle, this week in Illinois, [Gov Pat] Quinn says it's time for an electric highway, a road from Chicago to Springfield with electric vehicle charging stations along the way. ... "I think Abraham Lincoln would be very proud of us." [Er... double whhaaa...?] Asked where the funding would come from for electric vehicle charging stations, Quinn says money was already built into the capital budget for electrical vehicle enhancements, with emphasis on charging stations.

The first portion of this page is devoted to organizations that are funded directly by George Soros and his Open Society Institute (OSI). The second portion of the page focuses on organizations which do not receive direct funding from Soros and OSI, but which receive money from one or more groups that do get direct OSI fundin

Only if the Kafirs realize the goal of Islam is annihilation of their culture, can the destruction be stopped. ... Islamic sharia is being crammed down our throats and those who resist it and try to force adherence to AMERICAN law in the United States are vilified, just as their counterparts in Europe are. Europe at this point is nearly lost, as a sleepy complicate populace begins to awaken, to their horror, they are learning that it will be nearly impossible to undo. ...

a new digital pen called "Inkling" which allows artists the ability to draw on paper while the pen and receiver captures the drawing. The receiver is then hooked up to your computer and you can import the drawing … pen tip looks like a ball point pen but has pressure sensitivity. You can even create virtual "layers" on your paper which are imported into real layers in your graphic application. [promo video]

the linemen helped the driver out of his trapped seat while flames started to lap against his overturned truck. As soon as he was freed, the driver reached back in to rescue his 3-year-old daughter. That's when he told the linemen his pregnant wife was trapped inside the truck, and the boys sprang into action. First, the trio got additional help from two other bystanders -- an older man in a back brace and a woman in a military uniform -- and then coordinated a five-man lift to flip the truck over, all while the automobile's engine compartment was lapped by flames. ... We had to flip the truck over. It was just a midsize truck."

Plenty of people… have neatly dissected New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller’s perfect storm of ignorance and bias when it comes to the religious beliefs of those running for the GOP presidential nominee. … the establishment media function the way Hillary Clinton once claimed the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy operated….